🏢 Neighbourhood Cafe · Melbourne, Melbourne
By the lake, before the day rushes in.
Research Phase
Before writing a single line of code, our research agent studied 265 Lakes Cafe — their current website, social presence, reviews, team, and services. Here's what stood out.
Route extraction from app/**/page.tsx found 6 pages (/, /about, /catering, /community, /contact, /menu).
Component scan in components/** found 2 shared file(s) (Footer, Navigation).
SOURCES.md records business context (category: Neighbourhood Cafe; local focus: Melbourne, Melbourne).
Design Phase
Every design decision was intentional — informed by the research, not pulled from a template library.
Visual Direction
Multi-page App Router implementation with 6 route files and 2 shared component file(s), centered on a long-form homepage plus dedicated secondary routes (/about, /catering, /community, /contact). Animation primitives are implemented with Framer Motion imports in source files.
Design Rationale
Rationale is inferred from file structure in app/**/page.tsx: a narrative home route is separated from intent-driven detail routes for offerings/information and a dedicated /contact path for enquiries, while shared components keep navigation and page framing consistent.
Build Phase
Site Architecture
// Next.js App Router
Methodology
Spark (research agent) scraped 265 Lakes Cafe's current website, Google reviews, social media, and business listings. Every piece of real data — team names, service pricing, business hours, unique details — was extracted into a structured profile.
Based on the research, a bespoke design direction was created specifically for 265 Lakes Cafe. No templates — the typography, color palette, layout patterns, and visual effects were all chosen to match this business's personality and industry.
Pixel (design agent) built the entire 6-page Next.js application from scratch — 2 custom components, real content from the research phase, App Router with proper routing, and production-grade code.
Sentinel (QA agent) verified the build compiles cleanly, checked for placeholder content, validated all routes render correctly, and confirmed the design is unique (not recycled from another demo).
Additional Notes
Metadata extracted only from app/**/page.tsx, components/**, data/business.json (when present), and SOURCES.md. No fabricated claims were added; unknown values are null or marked as "Not explicitly stated in source files." Build time is a conservative estimate derived from route and component counts.
More from the experiment
This case study is part of the AI Web Lab — a 30-day experiment where AI agents build bespoke websites for real Melbourne businesses. Every site is researched, designed, and built from scratch by a team of five specialist AI agents. The full methodology, code, and results are documented transparently.
This study is being prepared for publication as part of a research paper on AI-assisted web development at scale.
We built 265 Lakes Cafe's site in 6 minutes. Same process, same quality — a custom website built for you, not a template.