Service
United States Marine Corps
Served in the infantry. The experience shaped a lasting preference for clear missions, prepared teams, disciplined execution, and responsibility to the people beside you.
Entrepreneur · Founder · Designer · Veteran
Build what makes life more human.
Heath Gagné builds companies, digital systems, and real-world experiences around connection, usefulness, and legacy.
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Heath Gagné · Founder, designer, and veteran
16+ years building digital experiences
Nationwide digital work across commercial and nonprofit sectors
2 companies currently led
USMC infantry veteran
Current chapter
Companies built around better ways to live and work.
Two founder-led companies connect Heath’s work across technology, community, design, and digital infrastructure.
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TribeLife
A community platform designed to turn digital discovery into meaningful relationships, trusted places, and real-world experiences.
View company 02HG Design+
A veteran-owned digital agency focused on advanced websites, applications, brand systems, and operational infrastructure.
View companySelected work
From an idea to the system behind it.
Founder-led products and client work spanning product strategy, community, mission-driven infrastructure, commerce, and experience design.
Founder-led product
TribeLife Platform
A connected ecosystem for communities, membership, events, local discovery, rewards, and real-world belonging.
Mission-driven digital systems
Animal Welfare Infrastructure
A repeatable digital operating model for rescues and humane organizations managing adoption, donation, volunteer, foster, and education programs.
Events · Hospitality · Membership
Experience Commerce
Digital journeys that connect discovery, ticketing, premium access, partnerships, and on-site participation.
Working philosophy
“Technology should help us participate in life, not replace it.”Read the principles
The path
Service, creative practice, entrepreneurship.
The through-line is a preference for useful systems, prepared teams, and work that matters beyond the launch.
Higher education
Hawai‘i Pacific University
Earned a Bachelor of Arts in Integrated Multimedia, with minors in Studio Art and Business Management, joining creative practice with commercial thinking.
2010–Present
HG Design+
Built a multidisciplinary digital practice serving businesses and nonprofits through strategy, design, technology, and operating systems.
Founder chapter
TribeLife
Created a community platform focused on real relationships, trusted discovery, meaningful experiences, and human legacy.
The operating system
Four principles behind the work.
Technology should return us to life.
The best digital product does not trap attention. It gives people the confidence, context, and momentum to participate in something real.
Design the system, not just the surface.
A beautiful interface is only successful when the content, operations, data, incentives, and human experience behind it work together.
Trust is a product feature.
Clear expectations, accurate information, visible accountability, and thoughtful curation create more value than another layer of noise.
Build for legacy, not applause.
The work worth doing should remain useful after the launch, strengthen the people around it, and leave something meaningful behind.
Begin something worthwhile
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