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Websites, custom software, and AI — architected to work and maintained to stay that way. Twenty years shipping production systems, from Fortune 500 WordPress infrastructure to frontier AI. You work directly with me: not a rotating team, and not a junior learning on your budget.
Four tiers, one operator, end to end
Solutions architecture and deployment for teams putting AI into production. Custom harnesses and agent-workflow development, integration with your stack, and the evaluation and verification that keep it trustworthy. Systems built to be governed, not trusted — because as models get more capable, the edge stops being capability and becomes oversight.
Bespoke web and mobile applications, internal tools, and product builds — from first principles to shipped in the stores. Native iOS and Android, web apps, and the integrations that tie them to the rest of your business.
WordPress builds and redesigns, migrations, WooCommerce, performance and hosting, DevOps, security, and ongoing maintenance and care plans. Twenty years and thousands of sites kept fast and up — including enterprise WordPress hosting at Automattic scale.
SEO, content and copywriting, analytics, and accessibility — the pieces that keep a site earning after launch, and the ongoing support that keeps it healthy. Part of a full engagement, not a commodity bolt-on.
I'm Phill Clapham. For twenty years I've built and operated the systems businesses run on — most recently as sole Senior Solutions Architect for Pressable's (Automattic) enterprise WordPress portfolio, and before that across hundreds of client sites, thousands of migrations, and custom builds. The same discipline runs through all of it: find the shape of the problem, build from fundamentals, and make it reliable by design.
Shipped, open-sourced, and running
Strategy trainer that teaches math-optimal video poker through deliberate practice. Every hold calculated, verified to 0.004% precision. One-time purchase, no ads, no data harvesting.
Details →The full blackjack skill in one trainer — basic strategy, counting, deviations, bet sizing, and heat simulation no other app has. Deliberate practice, honestly built.
Details →Open-source memory architecture for AI agents — four cognitive layers, a cross-layer immune system, and a hash-chained audit trail. Integrated with a dozen agent frameworks. The kind of production AI infrastructure the AI tier is built on.
GitHub →Portable cognitive-partnership kit that packages a working AI harness so other operators can run it — methodology, memory schema, and adapters, installable from PyPI. Built on anneal-memory.
GitHub →Load-testing and chaos engineering for managed WordPress hosting, built as a WP-CLI tool for staging environments where external load testing is restricted. The DevOps tier, in the open.
GitHub →Open-source libraries on PyPI, a peer-published paper with a DOI, and two decades of infrastructure — the complete engineering record lives on my personal site.
phillipclapham.com →Columbus, Ohio · remote, US-based · project-based
Tell me what you're building or what's broken, and we'll scope it. Email is the best way to reach me: me@phillipclapham.com.