I got tired of finding out
from the client

Hi, I'm Adam. I build Sentinel.

I've been making websites since the late 1990s, back when a bad GeoCities page passed for a portfolio. Fifteen years and a lot of WordPress later, after freelancing and then agency work, I'd built themes, plugins, and full custom apps for clients all over the country.

The same thing kept happening the whole time: a client would email to say their site was down, and they knew before I did. Every monitoring tool I tried missed in its own way. One took a weekend to set up. One cried wolf until I muted the channel. One priced monitoring like I had an ops team and a budget to match. I had neither, just a lot of client sites and my own name on the line.

So I built the tool I actually wanted: powerful enough to trust, quiet enough to leave running, and honest about what it costs. Sentinel is part of Rootstuff, the small studio I run from West Chester, Pennsylvania, which still ships client work. That is exactly why Sentinel keeps its opinions about what a real workday looks like.

One person builds this, on purpose. When you email support, you get me.

Adam