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  "markdown": "Co-founder, BigCommerce (now Commerce.com).\n\nEddie Machaalani co-founded BigCommerce in Sydney in 2009 with Mitchell Harper, after the two had launched Interspire, the company that grew into it. The pair led BigCommerce until Brent Bellm took over as chief executive in 2015.\n\n## What Eddie builds\n\n- [BigCommerce API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bigcommerce.md), graded B, 64.4/100, in Commerce \u0026 checkout. Hosted commerce platform with REST management APIs for catalogue, carts, checkouts, orders and customers, a GraphQL Storefront API, and a beta storefront MCP server that lets an agent search products, build a cart and get a checkout link. Co-founder, BigCommerce (now Commerce.com), researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Mitchell Harper](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mitchell-harper/), Co-founder, BigCommerce (now Commerce.com)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Eddie Machaalani?\n\nEddie Machaalani co-founded BigCommerce in Sydney in 2009 with Mitchell Harper, after the two had launched Interspire, the company that grew into it. The pair led BigCommerce until Brent Bellm took over as chief executive in 2015.\n\n### What does BigCommerce (Commerce.com) make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists BigCommerce API + MCP from BigCommerce (Commerce.com). Hosted commerce platform with REST management APIs for catalogue, carts, checkouts, orders and customers, a GraphQL Storefront API, and a beta storefront MCP server that lets an agent search products, build a cart and get a checkout link.\n\n### How are Eddie's tools graded?\n\nBigCommerce API + MCP is graded B, 64.4 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.bigcommerce.com/\n- https://www.bigcommerce.com/contact/\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigCommerce\n- https://www.bigcommerce.com/company/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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