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Notes on practical AI for business.

Articles on AI automation, headless WordPress, Next.js, Django, and the day-to-day craft of making websites earn their keep.

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If you run a business, not a dev team

The rest of this archive is build write-ups aimed at engineers. These are the plain-language ones — what AI is actually worth doing, and what it costs.

August 31, 2026Beyond Chatbots: How LA Businesses Are Really Using AI in 2026When most small and medium-sized business owners in Los Angeles hear “AI,” their minds immediately jump to conversational chatbots. While customer ser…
May 18, 2026When Does a Business Need Django Instead of WordPress?Most Los Angeles businesses do not need Django. Most Los Angeles businesses need WordPress, possibly with a few custom plugins, and that…
May 18, 2026How to Use AI for Customer Service Without Violating Privacy ExpectationsCustomer service is the most tempting place to apply AI and the most dangerous one to do it carelessly. The same conversation…
May 18, 2026Practical AI Automation for Small Businesses in Los AngelesMost articles about AI for small businesses are written for a hypothetical company that does not exist — one with a clean…
May 18, 2026Headless WordPress vs Traditional WordPress: What LA Businesses Need to KnowIf you own a business in Los Angeles and your website runs on WordPress, you have probably been told at some point…
May 18, 2026Why Los Angeles Law Firms Are Replacing Web Forms with AI Intake AssistantsWalk into most law firm websites in Los Angeles and you find the same thing: a polished header, a few practice-area pages,…

Latest write-upApril 10, 2026

Build a Secure Webhook Gateway for WordPress with Django, HMAC Verification, and Idempotent Jobs

A production-ready pattern to ingest third-party webhooks in Django, verify signatures, normalize events, and push safe updates into WordPress. Includes architecture, code snippets, retry logic, and observability.

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Notes on practical AI for business.

If you run a business, not a dev team

Build a Secure Webhook Gateway for WordPress with Django, HMAC Verification, and Idempotent Jobs

Shipping a Production Support Agent: Brain + Hands with Django, Redis, and WordPress

A production-ready pattern for AI in WordPress: async jobs, signed webhooks, and external workers

Production RAG for WordPress: pgvector + FastAPI backend, secure webhook intake, and a shortcode chat UI

Inbox To Revenue: Deploying an AI Triage Router For Customer Ops (Gmail → Slack → Airtable)

June 2026 Update: Orchestrator v0.6, Secure API Proxy, and Faster WordPress AI Workflows

Production metrics pipeline for AI agents with OpenTelemetry, Kafka, ClickHouse, and Metabase

A Secure WordPress→Django API Bridge for AI Automations (JWT, HMAC, Queues, Retries)

A production-grade pattern for AI endpoints in WordPress (secure proxy, caching, rate limits, observability)

Build a Secure AI API Gateway with Django for WordPress (JWT, Rate Limits, Cost Tracking)

Build a Lead Qualification Autopilot: Django + OpenAI + Slack + CRM

Platform Update: Token‑Aware Routing, Streaming Responses, and a Secure Provider Vault

Ship a Low-Latency Metrics Pipeline for AI Agents with OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, and Metabase

Build a Resilient Webhook Gateway for AI Automations with Django, Celery, and WordPress

Shipping a Production-Ready Support Agent: Brain + Hands Architecture with Django, Celery, and Redis

Streaming AI Chat in WordPress with a Django Backend, Redis Caching, and SSE (Production-Ready)

Queueing AI Content Jobs from WordPress to Django + Celery (OpenAI, Redis, HMAC, Callback)

Deploying an AI Support Router: 3‑Week Build, Architecture, and ROI