Founder story
Blynk Studio started with a single business: his dad's.
CJ's father, Kenneth J. McKenna, has practiced law in Nevada for decades. Like most local owners, he was great at the work and busy enough, but invisible to half the market that should have been calling him. Competitors with worse track records were ranking higher. AI assistants were recommending firms that did not deserve the recommendation. Reviews were piling up on the wrong profiles. The gap between being the best in the market and being seen as the best in the market was costing real cases.
CJ built the first version of Blynk Studio to close that gap for one attorney. It worked. Then he saw the same problem everywhere — local owners across every trade spending real money on marketing without ever seeing where they actually stand. Blynk Studio is the system he wished his dad had ten years ago: it shows you where you stand against the competitors shaping your market, then hands you the weekly readiness read and the Moves to win it.
Before Blynk Studio, CJ spent over twenty years as a voiceover artist behind major television campaigns, brand spots, and network promos, work that taught him how attention is actually won and held. For the past three years he has been building AI products full-time, including CoHabby, a roommate compatibility platform, and Actor Insights, an AI workflow tool that helps actors memorize lines and sharpen performances.
CJ leads Blynk Studio alongside his wife and business development partner, Fatine Bouanane. Born and raised in Reno, Nevada, he spent over fifteen years based in Los Angeles before settling in Amsterdam, where he runs Blynk Studio's U.S. operations while preparing the platform for global expansion.