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About us

Software meets e-commerce, 40 years in the making.

The AI Workroom is Tom Whitbread and Jeremy Carhartt. One of us has spent 20+ years writing software, the other 20+ years building and running online stores. We started The AI Workroom because we kept seeing the same gap between the two.

How we got here

For twenty-odd years we worked on opposite sides of the same problem. Tom built software: web apps, APIs, data pipelines and the servers they run on, in whichever language the job called for. Jeremy built and ran e-commerce: storefronts, catalogs, checkouts, fulfillment, and the long list of apps and spreadsheets that hold a growing store together.

Every time our paths crossed, we saw the same thing. Merchants weren’t short of tools. They were short of the joins between them: the order that has to be checked in three places, the support question answered by hand for the hundredth time, the catalog nobody ever has time to fix.

Why AI, and why now

Modern AI is very good at the messy middle: reading a customer’s email, matching it to an order, writing a sensible first draft. It is not something you should leave alone with your refunds. So we build it the way we’d want it in our own business: connected to real data, checked by a person where it matters, and logged so you can always see what happened and why.

Where we are

We’re based in Thailand and work with stores and agencies around the world, keeping hours that overlap with the US and Europe. Closer to home, we also help Thai hotels and restaurants answer their guests on LINE.

What we promise

  • Plain English, no hype. If an app already does the job, we’ll tell you.
  • A person approves anything that matters: money, upset customers, anything public.
  • Fixed quotes, weekly demos, and you own every line of code.
  • A small team, so you always talk to the people doing the work.
Tom Whitbread

Tom Whitbread

Software engineering

20+ years building software in JavaScript and TypeScript, PHP and Python, on Linux servers he’s happy to look after. Tom designs the AI agents, data pipelines and integrations, and makes sure they keep running.

Tom’s certifications on Credly ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Jeremy Carhartt

Jeremy Carhartt

Shopify & e-commerce

20+ years in e-commerce, much of it deep in Shopify: themes, apps, checkout and the operations behind them. Jeremy spots where merchants lose time, and what’s worth automating first.

Get in touch

Say hello, we’d love to hear from you.

Let your AI brief us, or fill in the short form. Either way, one of the founders will reply within one working day.

Short on time? Let your AI fill this in.

Your AI assistant asks you a few quick questions, writes a summary and sends it to us. About five minutes, and nothing else to fill in.

  1. 1

    Copy this message

    Read https://theaiworkroom.com/intake.md, interview me for The AI Workroom, then send them my brief.
  2. 2

    Paste it into your AI assistant, then answer its questions. Skip anything you’d rather not share.

    • ChatGPT
    • Claude
    • Gemini
    • Grok
    • Copilot
  3. 3

    Check the summary and say “send it”. Your assistant sends it to us for you, or gives you a ready-made email to tap send on. Nothing goes anywhere until you say so.

Use an agent with skills? Install it once

A skill is a saved set of instructions your agent can reuse. Install ours and just say “Do the The AI Workroom intake.”

Claude app

  1. Download the skill (a small zip file).
  2. Open Settings → Capabilities → Skills, choose Upload skill and pick the file.

Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and other coding agents

Run this in your terminal with dotagents (opens in a new tab), which installs skills for every agent at once:

npx @sentry/dotagents add https://theaiworkroom.com aiworkroom-intake

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