If you manage WordPress sites for clients, you know the drill.

Every month, you log into each site, click "Update All Plugins," wait, check if anything broke, run a backup, scan for issues, repeat. For one site it's fine. For eight sites it's 6 hours of your life gone - every single month.

I finally got annoyed enough to fix this properly.

What manual WordPress maintenance actually costs

Here's the math I was doing before I automated: