WordPress · AI automation · Technical SEO

WordPress platforms that rank higher, convert better, and work with AI.

I build high-performance WordPress systems with technical SEO and AI automation — so your site ranks, converts, and actually does work for the business.

10+ yrsWordPress + AI systems
45 → 98Core Web Vitals lift
48 hTypical project start
BarcelonaCET (GMT+1)
Persona usando su teléfono en un sitio web rápido y optimizado
Services

WordPress engineering,
AI automation & technical SEO.

01

Custom WordPress Development

Bespoke themes on an architecture that scales — headless when it makes sense.

  • Custom themes
  • Gutenberg + ACF
  • Custom blocks
  • Scalable architecture
  • Headless when needed
02

Plugin Engineering

Plugins built from scratch and wired into the systems your business already runs on.

  • Plugins from scratch
  • API integrations
  • CRM & ERP connections
  • WooCommerce extensions
  • Workflow automation
03

AI Integrations & Automation

Where WordPress stops being a website and starts doing work for the business.

04

Technical SEO

SEO engineering, not marketing SEO.

  • Core Web Vitals
  • Schema & structured data
  • Indexing & site architecture
  • Sitemaps & crawl budget
  • Log file analysis
05

Performance & Security

Fast under load, and hard to break.

  • Speed optimization
  • Caching & CDN
  • Hardening & WAF
  • Backups
  • Monitoring
06

Maintenance & Growth

Not just keeping the lights on.

  • Monthly improvements
  • New features
  • Recurring audits
  • Ongoing support
  • Technical roadmap
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Median PageSpeed score across the sites I've delivered.

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Average speed-up after a rebuild — from 4.8s to 2.0s load time.

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On WordPress — 60+ sites shipped and maintained.

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Average organic traffic lift within six months of launch.

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Uptime maintained across every site on a care plan, with monitoring and hardening baked in.


Industries I work with

Built for how each business
actually loses a customer.

Every sector leaks conversions somewhere different. I find where yours leaks, then engineer the fix.

E-commerce & WooCommerce

From catalogue to checkout — fewer steps, faster pages, more completed orders.

Checkout rebuildsCatalogues at scaleSubscriptionsFeed & ERP sync
See E-Commerce services

Publishers & media

High-volume archives that have to stay indexed, fast, and cheap to serve.

MultisiteCrawl budgetCore Web VitalsAd-stack cleanup
See Publishers & Media services

Healthcare & clinics

Accessible, compliant sites where trust and privacy aren't optional extras.

WCAG 2.2 AAGDPR & consentBooking flowsHardening
See Healthcare services

SaaS & startups

Marketing sites that ship weekly and rank for the terms that actually convert.

Programmatic SEOHeadless front-endsA/B testingDocs & changelog
See SaaS & Startups services

Real estate & listings

Property portals with heavy search, heavy media, and no patience for latency.

Faceted searchMap & mediaPortal feed importsCaching
See Real Estate services

Education & courses

Learning platforms where enrolment drops off the moment a page hesitates.

LMS integrationMembershipsVideo deliveryDrip content
See Education services


Real-world industry impact

Where WordPress + AI actually moves the number.

Pick a sector. Each row is a realistic engagement pattern — problem, what shipped, and the outcome teams hire me for.

Capability Use case Problem What shipped Outcome
Checkout rebuild Mobile conversion High cart abandonment on mobile; payment retries and address errors killing completion. Leaner checkout, wallet methods, clearer validation, measured funnel events. +12–18% checkout completion
Core Web Vitals Product & PLP speed LCP and INP failing on category and product templates under real 4G. Query diet, image pipeline, cache layers, script budget on live URLs. 45→90+ mobile PageSpeed
Catalog at scale Faceted search Filters timing out on 20k–50k SKUs during campaign traffic. Indexed attributes, smarter queries, cache strategy for PLPs. Sub-second filters under load
ERP / feed sync Stock & price truth CSV uploads, oversells, wrong prices after supplier updates. Nightly API sync, idempotent jobs, admin visibility into failures. Zero manual CSV ops
AI catalog ops Product content Thin descriptions and empty attributes blocking SEO and filters. Draft agent + human review queue wired into WooCommerce. Hours saved per catalog drop
Patterns from WooCommerce store work · figures typical of scoped sprintsE-commerce landing →
Customer stories

See how businesses transform with our solutions

Client under NDA Healthcare

Consolidated twelve country sites into one multisite and cut publishing time by 70%

Pharmaceutical group · 12 markets · 40k pages

Read the anonymized case study
Client under NDA E-commerce

Organic traffic up 180% after a WooCommerce rebuild and taxonomy overhaul

D2C fashion retailer · 6 markets · 9k SKUs

Read the anonymized case study
Client under NDA B2B SaaS

Page load time down 60% and Core Web Vitals green across the funnel

B2B platform · 3 languages · 1.2M sessions/yr

Read the anonymized case study

Confidentiality

Discretion is part of the work.

NDA before the first call

Sign one before you tell me anything, if you prefer. I'll send mine or work under yours.

No names on this site

Clients appear here only if they ask to. Everything else stays sector, scale and outcome.

Your code stays yours

Full IP transfer on delivery. Repos, credentials and documentation handed over, nothing withheld.


Testimonials

What clients say

Names are withheld by agreement. The numbers aren't.

SaaS

Anton migrated our ten-year-old site with zero downtime. Core Web Vitals went from 45 to 98.

CTO B2B SaaS platform · Germany
Marketing

Best WordPress developer I've worked with. The technical SEO depth is unusual for a developer.

Marketing Director Lead-gen agency · United Kingdom
E-commerce

Our WooCommerce store handles ten times the traffic it used to. The performance work paid for itself in a quarter.

Founder D2C fashion retailer · Spain
Travel

Fixed an indexation problem we'd been chasing for a year. Our category pages finally rank.

Head of Growth Travel marketplace · Netherlands
E-commerce

He rebuilt our checkout and cart abandonment dropped by a third. A plan and weekly demos, no drama.

E-commerce Manager Home goods brand · France
Industrial

The AI pipeline drafts our product pages. Two days of work became twenty minutes.

COO Industrial supplier · Poland
Healthtech

We passed our accessibility audit on the first attempt. He treats compliance as engineering, not a checkbox.

Product Lead Digital health platform · Sweden
Publishing

Hacked twice in one year before he took over. Since the hardening and WAF work, eighteen months clean.

Founder Multi-site publisher · Italy

How we work together

A transparent, results-driven process from day one

01

Discovery call

15-minute free consultation to understand your goals, current challenges, and project scope. No sales pitch — just honest assessment.

15 minFree
02

Technical audit

Deep dive into your WordPress setup, performance metrics, SEO health, and security posture. You get a detailed report with prioritized recommendations.

1–2 daysOptional
03

Proposal & timeline

Custom quote with clear deliverables, milestones, and realistic timelines. Fixed-price projects or hourly commitment — your choice.

Same dayFree
04

Kickoff & access

Set up Git repo, staging environment, project management tools, and communication channels. First sprint planning happens here.

1 dayIncluded
05

Development & updates

Weekly progress reports with demos, Git commits, and performance metrics. Full transparency — you see what's being built in real time.

OngoingPer agreement
06

Launch & support

Deployment checklist, DNS migration support, and post-launch monitoring. 30-day warranty on all work plus optional ongoing care plans.

Launch dayIncluded

Ready to start? Most projects begin within 48 hours of agreement.

Schedule discovery call
/ An agency, or one engineer

A web agency, or the
engineer who signs it?

I am not a studio with a sales layer. You hire one senior engineer who scopes the work, writes the code, and carries the consequences — the same person, from the first call to the third year of maintenance.

Working with me

One person, senior from day one, accountable end to end.

  • 01You brief me and I do the work. There is no account manager standing between the problem and the person fixing it.
  • 02One signature on the contract. Whoever scoped it is whoever ships it, and whoever answers when something breaks at 9pm.
  • 03Fixed weekly hours that you set. Unused hours roll over inside the month, and you can stop at the end of any month.
  • 04I stay after launch. Monitoring, Core Web Vitals and a roadmap — not a handoff document and a farewell email.

A typical agency

A pitch team, a delivery team, and a gap between them.

  • 01A senior wins the pitch. A junior does the build, and the senior reviews it maybe once a month.
  • 02Your project shares a team with six others. Priority follows the largest invoice in the room, and it usually isn't yours.
  • 03Every scope change becomes a change order. The final invoice rarely resembles the proposal you signed.
  • 04The invoice closes and the team moves on. Whatever the site does next is your problem to diagnose.
Transparent hourly rates

The more hours you commit weekly, the better your rate

Essential

Flexible support for smaller projects

80/hour
10 hours per week commitment €700/week · €2,800/month
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Professional

Best value for growing businesses

70/hour
15 hours per week commitment €900/week · €3,600/month
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Enterprise

Maximum value for dedicated support

60/hour
20 hours per week commitment €1,200/week · €4,800/month
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What's included?

Whatever you need. WordPress development, custom themes & plugins, technical SEO, performance optimization, AI integration, migrations, troubleshooting — you set the priorities, I deliver the work. No pre-packaged features, just results.

Month-to-month contracts. Cancel anytime. Unused hours roll over within the same month.


Who I am

Your long-term technical partner

Experience10+ years WordPress + AI
Based inBarcelona, Spain
HoursCET (GMT+1)
FocusPerformance · SEO · AI automation

I'm a WordPress and AI automation specialist with 10+ years of deep platform expertise. I understand the core architecture, build custom solutions that scale, and layer AI agents, RAG and workflow automation on top — so the site ranks and also does real work for the business.

From performance and technical SEO to smart automation, I give you a robust digital foundation and a long-term technical partner who stays after launch: uptime, security, continuous improvement, and systems that keep getting smarter.

I'm based in the Barcelona area and work with companies across Spain and Europe. WordPress development in Barcelona

AI OPPORTUNITY AUDIT · FREE ANALYSIS

What could your website already be doing for you?

Enter your URL and I’ll look for practical places where AI, automation or better integrations could remove manual work, improve customer journeys or help convert more opportunities.

Conversion paths Forms · demos · chat Work a system could handle for visitors.
Content & knowledge Blog · FAQ · docs Content that could power self-service answers.
Lead handling Qualify · route · follow-up Forms that could enrich before the inbox.
Approach AI only when needed Automation-first. Honest when it is not worth it.

Scan a public website

Deterministic inspection first. AI only where the evidence supports it.

Live

Public website data only No signup required to start About 30–60 seconds

No SEO scores. No PageSpeed grades. Only business-process friction visible on public pages.


FAQ

Everything you need to know about working together

Both. Most of my work is on existing WordPress sites — audits, rebuilds, performance and SEO fixes, migrations. New builds are welcome too.

Within one business day on CET hours, usually much sooner. Active projects get same-day replies on the agreed channel.

Yes. Site down, hacked, or broken after an update — send the details and I'll prioritize it ahead of scheduled work.

Yes. I work with whatever you already run — shared, VPS, managed WordPress, or cloud — and recommend a move only when it's the actual bottleneck.

I'll say so upfront and point you to someone I trust, or coordinate with your existing team so nothing falls between the cracks.

Yes. I sign NDAs and work under a written agreement covering scope, rates, IP ownership, and confidentiality before any access is granted.

Monthly invoicing against your weekly hour commitment, bank transfer, month-to-month with no lock-in. Fixed-price projects are split into milestones.

They roll over within the same month, so a quiet week isn't lost. They don't carry across months.


Contact

Have a project?
Let's talk.

  • NDA? Absolutely — just ask.
  • I reply within one business day, CET.
  • You work with me directly — never a junior.
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