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    Meet Gus

    Gus, your WordPress engineer

    Most AI tools tell you what might be wrong. Gus works on your real sites: it finds the cause, prepares the fix, tests it on staging and applies it when you approve, with a backup, verification and automatic rollback.

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    Gus is on every plan, from $2.99 a month, with a 7-day trial.

    Gus chat with a fix to approve
    Every change goes through the same pipeline
    1. Your approval
    2. Staging or production, your choice
    3. A backup
    4. Verification
    5. Automatic rollback

    What Gus sees

    It looks at how your site is actually built

    Through the MaintainHQ connector plugin, Gus reads your site the way a senior WordPress developer would, before it suggests anything.

    Your stack

    WordPress and PHP versions, host, caching, theme and framework, every plugin and its version.

    Theme and templates

    Reads your theme files, tells you which template shows each page and which code is hooked where.

    Advanced Custom Fields

    Field groups and where they are used, and field changes still waiting to sync.

    Page builders

    Knows when a page belongs to Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, WPBakery, Oxygen, Bricks or Breakdance, and treats it accordingly.

    Database, read-only

    Tables, autoloaded options and read-only queries, so answers come from your data, not guesses.

    Profiling

    Like Query Monitor: time per plugin, slow and repeated queries and outgoing requests, on a private test request visitors never see.

    Screenshots

    A real browser visit on desktop and phone: what visitors see, console errors, failed requests and layout shift.

    Logs and history

    PHP errors, uptime, the activity log and plugin changelogs between the version you run and the one on offer.

    What Gus does

    It fixes, not just tells you

    Every change goes through the same pipeline: your approval, staging or production as you choose, a backup, verification and automatic rollback.

    Diagnoses and fixes, safely

    Gus finds the cause and prepares the fix. It waits for your approval, runs on staging or production as you choose for that fix, takes a backup, checks the site afterwards and rolls back automatically if anything got worse.

    Writes code to WordPress standards

    Small changes in your child theme or a site-specific plugin, checked against the WordPress Coding Standards and PHP compatibility for your PHP version, with security checks for nonces and permissions. You see the diff before anything is applied.

    Builds features, pages and shortcodes

    Gus can write the code for a feature, create the page for it (as a draft by default) and add a shortcode or block to an existing page, all in one plan you approve. Code goes first, then the page.

    Tests updates before they go live

    Before a risky plugin update reaches your live site, Gus reads the changelog, finds theme code that depends on the plugin, rehearses the update on staging and gives a verdict. Risky updates wait for you. On by default on Pro and Agency.

    Incident response

    When a site goes down or throws a fatal error, Gus runs the right checks straight away, drafts a fix and the status page wording, and sends you one alert. Approve the fix from Slack with one button. On by default on Pro and Agency.

    Answers questions about your whole fleet

    Ask across every site at once: which sites run an affected plugin version, which are slowest, which have known vulnerabilities, what updates are waiting.

    Change receipts

    Every change has a receipt: what changed and why, who approved it, the backup, the checks and the outcome. Share it with your client through a signed link that expires.

    Bigger jobs

    Plans the work, and shows you the plan

    For anything with several steps, Gus breaks the job into tasks and keeps you up to date as it goes.

    The task card

    A live card shows the plan: each task with its status, the steps Gus took inside it, a progress bar and the time taken. It is saved with the answer, so you can come back to it later.

    Parallel helpers that only read

    Independent investigations, such as reading several theme files or checking plugins and the database, run side by side as helpers, up to three at once. Helpers can only read. Every change stays with Gus and goes through your approval.

    Where you can ask

    Ask Gus wherever you work

    The dashboard

    Chat with Gus about one site or your whole fleet, with plans, task cards and fixes to approve.

    WordPress admin

    Administrators get a Gus menu inside WordPress on every connected site.

    Slack

    Ask with /gus, and approve incident fixes with buttons in the alert.

    API and MCP

    Ask Gus from your own tools or AI assistant. Gus is read-only there; fixes still need approval in MaintainHQ.

    Memory

    Gus remembers your sites, and you

    Gus keeps notes on each site: how it is built, what you prefer for it (“staging first for every change”) and what happened before. It also remembers you: your business, how you like to work and what you are aiming for, across all your sites. It can look back at earlier conversations too.

    You can read, pin, edit and delete every memory. Anything that looks like a password or key is stripped before it is saved.

    Safety

    Nothing changes without your approval

    More on the guardrails in How Gus works and Security & trust.

    • Nothing changes on a site without an approval: in the dashboard, by a signed email link, or by a linked Slack user who may change that site.
    • Every fix needs a person to approve it, including any code Gus writes, and you choose staging or production each time.
    • Pages built with a page builder are protected: Gus will not edit them, and tells you to use the builder’s own shortcode widget or a new standard page.
    • An edit is refused if the page changed since Gus read it, or if it would remove or reorder existing blocks.
    • Every change has a backup first, is verified afterwards and rolls back automatically, including when new code causes a PHP error.
    • In chat, Gus only reads and drafts; changes happen through the approved pipeline. Core files, plugins, wp-config.php and .htaccess are off limits for code changes.

    Usage

    Gus is on every plan

    Your allowance resets every 6 hours, with a weekly allowance, and bigger plans include more. A running answer is never cut off.

    Starter

    Gus usage: 20% of Starter Plus

    Resets every 6 hours, with a weekly allowance

    Roughly 4 quick questions every 6 hours, 14 a week (estimate)

    Starter Plus

    Gus usage: standard allowance

    Resets every 6 hours, with a weekly allowance

    Roughly 20 quick questions every 6 hours, 70 a week (estimate)

    Pro

    Gus usage: 4x Starter Plus

    Resets every 6 hours, with a weekly allowance

    Roughly 80 quick questions every 6 hours, 280 a week (estimate)

    Agency

    Gus usage: 12x Starter Plus

    Resets every 6 hours, with a weekly allowance

    Roughly 240 quick questions every 6 hours, 1,000 a week (estimate)

    How Gus usage works: the two allowances, when they reset and what uses more.

    Proof

    Measured, not promised

    The Gus benchmark

    Ten broken WordPress sites, each a failure we see on real client sites, graded automatically on root cause, fix and fix safety. Latest published run: root cause found on 8 of 10 sites.

    See the benchmark

    Hear when Gus learns something new

    New Gus skills, benchmark results and WordPress maintenance tips by email. Roughly once a month, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

    Hear when Gus learns something new

    New Gus skills, benchmark results and WordPress maintenance tips by email. Roughly once a month, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

    Frequently asked questions

    What agencies ask before they let Gus near a client site.

    Is Gus just a chatbot?
    No. Gus works on your real sites through the MaintainHQ connector: it reads the stack, theme, logs and database, profiles pages and takes screenshots, then prepares fixes that go through your approval, staging or production as you choose, a backup, verification and automatic rollback.
    Will Gus change my site without asking?
    No. Nothing changes without an approval from you or a teammate who may change that site, in the dashboard, by a signed email link or from Slack. Every fix needs a person to approve it, including any code Gus writes.
    What happens if a fix makes things worse?
    Every change has a backup first and is checked afterwards. If the site got worse, the change is rolled back automatically. For code changes there is a second net: for 20 minutes afterwards, a fatal PHP error in the changed file puts the original back, and MaintainHQ can restore it even when the WordPress REST API is down.
    Does Gus work with Elementor and other page builders?
    Yes, for diagnosis and fixes. Gus recognises pages built with Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, WPBakery, Oxygen, Bricks or Breakdance and will not edit them directly: it tells you where a shortcode belongs in the builder, or creates a new standard page instead.
    Do I need a staging site?
    No, but it helps. With a linked staging site, you can choose to run a fix there first, check it, then promote the same fix to production. Without one, changes still get a backup, verification and automatic rollback on the live site.
    Which plans include Gus?
    Every plan, including Free. Each has a Gus allowance that resets every 6 hours, with a weekly allowance; bigger plans include more. A running answer is never cut off. The pricing page explains how usage works.
    What does Gus need on my site?
    The MaintainHQ connector plugin. Keep it up to date: the newest abilities, such as creating pages and adding shortcodes, need the latest connector, and Gus tells you when an older one cannot do something.

    Put Gus on your sites

    Connect your first site in minutes and let Gus run a health check. Plans start at $2.99 a month, with a 7-day trial.

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