I keep WordPress running at scale and build AI Agents.
Hundreds of sites. A team of engineers. And a growing pile of automations that take the boring work off people’s plates. This is where I think out loud about reliability, WooCommerce, and practical AI.
What I’m into right now
WordPress scale & reliability
Managing a platform of hundreds of sites teaches you what actually breaks WordPress under load, and how teams keep it fast, safe, and boringly dependable.
AI agents
Building automations that do real work: support, ops, data. The useful 20% of AI, minus the hype.
WooCommerce
Keeping commerce fast and stable when every second of downtime is lost revenue.
Latest writing
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Your AI Should Be a Resident, Not a Visitor
I train about ten hours a week: cycling, workouts, walking with load. An AI agent watches whether my body keeps up. It pulls the…
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Why WooCommerce Checkout Is Slow: 15 Causes and What To Do About Each
A slow category page costs you a bounce. A slow checkout costs you a paid-for order, and the official Stripe plugin will sit on…
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Is WordPress Dying? The True State of WordPress in 2026
The WordPress obituaries have a real number this time: 43.6% of surveyed websites in January 2025, 40.7% by August 2026, most of the fall…
I’m Tom. Master’s in finance. 17 years in tech and business. These days I lead WordPress at scale, keep WooCommerce stores fast, and build AI agents that take the boring work off people’s plates. I like systems that don’t fall over. And I can’t stop automating things.