Founder & developer
Mark's newest build is Mailbox MCP, a remote MCP server that gives Claude, Cursor or any MCP client real read and write access to a mailbox you already own. Gmail, Microsoft 365, or any IMAP host. 32 mail tools, plus up to 21 more where it can reach your calendar. Nothing to migrate, and no message content stored anywhere.
Reading mail is the easy half. The hard half is leaving the mailbox exactly as you found it: replies that thread correctly, sent mail filed once, and a message that stays unread until you say otherwise. Open Outlook afterwards and there is nothing to say a machine did the work.
Ask an AI to email you a PDF and it either says it can't, or it starts typing the file out as base64 and runs out of reply. That is not the model being bad at files. MCP tool arguments are JSON, and JSON has no file type, so every server hits the same wall separately. Here is the gap in the spec, what base64 really costs (including the figure we published wrong for a month), and the four routes we built instead.
An ability can pass every test, satisfy its JSON Schema and have a hardened permission_callback, and still be a bad ability, because the model will not pick it, picks it for the wrong job, or calls it four hundred times in a row. We ship a commercial MCP server with 32 mail tools and up to 21 calendar tools on live customer mailboxes. Here are the nine design rules that surface bought us, each translated into runnable wp_register_ability() code.
Yesterday we put a 23-page site live for a Lincolnshire chauffeur firm trading since 2006: a split-flap departures board, nine individually written town pages, mobile PageSpeed 99 with every Core Web Vital green, and AI Discovery Files from day one. Here is the full anatomy of a 2026 local business website, every figure real and dated, and why we banked 99 rather than chase a vanity 100.
Ask an AI to email you a PDF and it either says it can't, or it starts typing the file out as base64 and runs out of reply. That is not the model being bad at files. MCP tool arguments are JSON, and JSON has no file type, so every server hits the same wall separately. Here is the gap in the spec, what base64 really costs (including the figure we published wrong for a month), and the four routes we built instead.
An ability can pass every test, satisfy its JSON Schema and have a hardened permission_callback, and still be a bad ability, because the model will not pick it, picks it for the wrong job, or calls it four hundred times in a row. We ship a commercial MCP server with 32 mail tools and up to 21 calendar tools on live customer mailboxes. Here are the nine design rules that surface bought us, each translated into runnable wp_register_ability() code.
Every WordPress 7 Abilities API tutorial ships the five-line `__return_true` pattern. It works on a laptop. It's also the shortest path to an AI-callable backdoor on production. Here's the hardened permission + input + output schema stack production sites need, plus a 12-point pre-ship audit.
Google confirmed the May 2026 core update finished rolling out on 2 June, a twelve-day run. Completion is not a finish line. Here is what it did to a real UK client site we run, why the long-tail won first while the head term did not, and what Google says you should do this week.
Saturday 30 May produced the second weekend of severe ranking volatility in Google's May 2026 core update. SEOs are reporting 50 to 100 percent traffic drops, with AI-built commodity pages absorbing the bulk of the damage. Here is what client GSC reports are actually showing this morning, and the recovery playbook drawn from a real UK case.
On 8 April 2026 we launched a new custom-built site for a Brewood locksmith. Nineteen days later it was the #1 result on ChatGPT and Gemini for "brewood locksmith", with mobile PageSpeed 100/100/100/100, no backlinks, no reviews and no domain authority. Here is exactly what we built and why it worked.
Anthropic's Claude Mythos model identified thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser. Twelve companies got advance access through Project Glasswing. Everyone else, including the businesses whose websites run on that software, will have to wait for patches.
A walkthrough of the free 365i WordPress Scanner, the eight checks it runs, and how to fix every issue it finds.
Protect your WordPress site from hackers with this step-by-step security checklist covering everything from updates to two-factor authentication.
Yesterday we put a 23-page site live for a Lincolnshire chauffeur firm trading since 2006: a split-flap departures board, nine individually written town pages, mobile PageSpeed 99 with every Core Web Vital green, and AI Discovery Files from day one. Here is the full anatomy of a 2026 local business website, every figure real and dated, and why we banked 99 rather than chase a vanity 100.
At kickoff, a new client's brief specified navy #0F2744, silver #8A9199 and accent orange #F58220. We contrast-tested the palette before designing anything: the orange measured 2.59:1 on white and failed WCAG 2.2 AA twice over. Here is the full audit with every number intact, what measuring his five reference sites revealed, and how to test your own brand colours before they cost you a redesign.
Two months after launch on a brand-new domain, a one-man locksmith ranks page one of Google and gets recommended unprompted by ChatGPT, in one of the most competitive local niches there is. Here is the dated data across Google organic, the map pack, Google's AI Overview and ChatGPT, and the exact E-E-A-T and non-commodity content decisions that earned it.
In April a Brewood removals firm had 220 of its 272 pages refused by Google. We rebuilt it from scratch, then asked ChatGPT to score the result against the best removals sites in the UK. It put the village firm on 99/100, ahead of Pickfords. Here are the three build decisions that earned the marks, and why none of them were the things SEO blogs obsess over.
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