Tom — WordPress site agent | AutoToast by AutoThink

The job

Tom checks your WordPress site, explains what he finds and suggests fixes you approve.

Tom is the AI site agent inside AutoToast, AutoThink Group's managed WordPress hosting service for small businesses and agencies. He sits in the centre of the Site Tools workspace, alongside the hosting controls, and is designed to make running a WordPress site feel less technical.

Today Tom can answer hosting and WordPress questions, read a site's current state (status, DNS, SSL, backups, PHP, cache and usage) and explain it in plain English. When something needs changing, Tom prepares a specific proposal, for example clearing the cache, and a person approves or declines it. Approved changes run through the same controlled jobs as the manual tools, and risky changes are designed to take a backup first.

Tools for files, databases, WordPress updates, security scans and speed optimisation are implemented but have not yet been proven on a live WordPress server, so they are treated as beta.

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What Tom can do

Answer hosting and WordPress questions

Plain-English help without a support ticket.

Advice

Read site status, DNS, SSL, PHP, cache, backups and usage

Quick diagnosis of sites the user can access.

Advice

Propose a cache clear

Fixes stale pages once a person approves the proposal. Needs an active hosting server.

Action with approval

Propose file, database and WordPress changes (beta)

Help with updates, plugins and fixes, with a backup first for risky changes. Not yet proven on a live WordPress server.

Action with approval

Security and speed guidance (beta)

Security scans and Boost presets to approve. Not yet proven live; speed scores coming soon.

Action with approval

Illustrative examples

See the workflow

“Why is my homepage showing old content?”

Stale page (live)

01The user asks in chat
02Tom reads cache status and prepares a cache-clear proposal
03The user clicks Approve
04The cache is cleared through a controlled job

Illustrative workflow. Exact output depends on the account, inputs and approval settings.

“Is my SSL certificate OK?”

Health check (live)

01The user opens a site
02Tom summarises DNS, SSL, PHP and backups
03The user decides next steps
04A plain-English report

Illustrative workflow. Exact output depends on the account, inputs and approval settings.

“Update my plugins safely.”

Safe plugin updates (beta)

01The user asks for updates
02Tom proposes updates with a backup first
03The user approves
04Updates run through a controlled job

Illustrative workflow. Exact output depends on the account, inputs and approval settings.

AI persona

Calm, practical and plain-spoken.

Calm, practical and plain-spoken. Tom explains technical hosting issues in everyday British English, checks before suggesting changes and is clear about what he cannot do. Tom is an AI persona; no biography or qualifications are claimed.

Behavioural boundaries

Tom never changes a site without human approval.
Tom does not handle billing, email hosting or anything outside the selected site.
Tom has no shell access.
Answers use AI and may be wrong; deeper tools are beta until proven on live servers.
No public API or MCP access is offered for Tom.

Works within AutoToast

The agent is not the whole product.

AutoToast provides the hosting, billing, migration and team tools. These product capabilities sit outside Tom:

Buying hosting, Boost/CDN or Render plans and billing
The migration wizard for moving a site into AutoToast
Team members, invitations and workspace settings
The AutoToast Render video API, which does not use Tom

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Documented roadmap

What may come next

Planned (no release date): speed scores in Tom's answers and country blocking.

Proposed, not commitments: guiding a full migration end to end and scheduled health sweeps with a weekly summary.

Public profile

Use the verified summary

Copy or download Tom’s current public profile, including capability labels, roadmap status and real links.

Last reviewed 8 October 2026

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Where Tom works

Tom is part of AutoToast, an AutoThink Group product.

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Need Tom to do something else?

Ask anything about Tom, or tell us what you need Tom to do. AutoThink builds requested features fast — we aim to scope and ship many requests the same working day.

AI assistants acting for a person are welcome to submit on their behalf. Every request is read by the AutoThink team and answered by email.

Questions about Tom

What is Tom?+

The AI site agent inside AutoToast WordPress hosting.

Can Tom change my site by himself?+

No. Every change is a proposal you approve.

What can Tom see?+

Your site's hosting status, DNS, SSL, backups, PHP, cache and usage.

Does Tom need extra setup?+

No, he's built into Site Tools for sites hosted on AutoToast.

Is there an API or MCP for Tom?+

Not at present.

Does Tom handle billing or email?+

No. Billing is in the product's billing pages; email hosting isn't offered yet.

Use Tom in AutoToast

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