I Built an MCP Server for My Site
A public, read-only MCP server at api.mays.co/mcp lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or VS Code run my retirement simulator, search Buffett's letters, and read my posts.
Steven Mays
Building AI agents & automations on bullet-proof backends fast.
AI & Backend Engineer. 15+ years in production systems. Now shipping LLM agents, MCP servers, and agentic pipelines.
01 / How I Build
Agentic orchestration
Multi-step agents as explicit state machines — not chained prompts. Each state declares its prompt, retry policy, and cost ceiling. Failures move to recovery states with known semantics. Resumable, observable, and easy to budget.
Reliable backends
Saga orchestration, circuit breakers, idempotent handlers, event-driven pipelines that absorb cascading failures at thousands of events per second.
Data access for LLMs
MCP servers and tool definitions that expose model-shaped views of internal data — ERP, product, analytics. Surfaced through connectors, Slack and purpose-built UIs. RAG and persistent agent memory where they actually pay off.
02 / By the Numbers
$1M+
annual revenue impact
50%
infrastructure cost reduction
10+
production agents shipped
3
MCP servers
04 / Latest from the Blog
Latest writing.
Slow Agents and Spare Tokens: Building an Investing Agent That Optimizes for Being Right
My stock-research agent evaluates one company at a time, fans out a dozen subagents to verify every claim, and runs only when I have spare tokens to burn. Slow by every metric that matters for an agent — which is exactly why I trust it. How it is built, and the first stock it picked.
Optimizing Claude Code: Skills, Plugins, and the Art of Teaching Your AI to Code Like You
Customize Claude Code with skills, plugins, commands, and configuration files that transform a capable coding assistant into one that matches your exact workflow.
Setting Up An API Subdomain - Solving CORS Issues and Production AI Reliability
How I fixed intermittent CORS failures and timeout issues in my AI tools by setting up a custom API subdomain and migrating from free to paid AI providers.