The Token Bill Comes Due: LLM Cost Guardrails Every Founder Needs
The industry shifted from tokenmaxxing to CFO scrutiny. Anthropic at $47B annualized, a CLI tool claiming 91.8% token savings, and a developer cutting Claude Co…
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Business & Agency
Agency life, client stories, team management, and business insights from running a WordPress agency.
Ships Are Cheap, Harbors Are Not: Why Distribution Is the Only Moat Left
AI collapsed the cost of building software to near zero. It did not collapse the cost of reaching customers. A decision framework for founders on which distribu…
The Economics of Running an AI-First WordPress Agency
How AI changed our agency P&L line by line: revenue model shifts, API costs, margin math, and what to reinvest when gross margin jumps from 12% to 66%.…
ChatGPT Projects vs Claude Projects for WordPress Agency Client Management
How ChatGPT Projects and Claude Projects compare for WordPress agency client management: per-client setup, file uploads, team sharing, and context limits.…
Featured Image Automation: The HTML + Playwright Workflow
I switched from DALL-E to HTML templates plus Playwright screenshots for all featured images. Here is the workflow, the code, and why it works better at scale.…
What Clients Ask About AI (And How I Answer): An Agency Owner’s Honest FAQ
The real questions clients ask about AI at our agency – covering cost, code quality, data privacy, chatbots, and why being honest about how we use AI beca…
Model Context Protocol for WordPress Agencies: The Complete Guide
Everything you need to know about MCP for WordPress agencies: what it is, why it matters, and links to every deep-dive post in the cluster.…
AI Overviews vs Publisher Traffic: What the Data Actually Shows
Research from Ahrefs, Semrush, BrightEdge, and Search Engine Land quantifies the click-through rate impact of Google AI Overviews on publisher traffic by query …
Claude Code as an Agency Team Member: Workflows That Stick
Claude Code is not autocomplete and not a chatbot. At Wbcom Designs, after running it across plugin development, support triage, content pipelines, and multi-si…
Pre-Production Plugin Testing: A Workflow That Holds Up at Agency Scale
A 4-stage gate for testing plugin updates across a WordPress agency portfolio: local sandbox, staging clone, canary deploy, and full rollout. Covers wp-env, PHP…
The Multi-Site SEO Stack: GSC + GA4 + SpyFu Through MCP
Running SEO across 10+ WordPress sites without a unified interface turns into tab soup. This walkthrough covers how to connect GSC, GA4, and SpyFu through MCP, …
WordPress Management at Scale: The 100-Site Tool Stack
Running 100 WordPress sites requires a tool stack that compounds over time. Here is how to layer hosting, update orchestration, monitoring, backups, WP-CLI auto…