🥋 Martial Arts · Richmond, Melbourne
The Way Begins Here
Research Phase
Before writing a single line of code, our research agent studied Azuma Dojo — their current website, social presence, reviews, team, and services. Here's what stood out.
Sensei Takeshi Azuma is 6th Dan Karate and 3rd Dan Judo, began training at age five under his father in Osaka, and competed on Japan's national karate team
Professor Marcus Silva (BJJ) trained under the Gracie lineage in São Paulo — bringing authentic Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to a Japanese-founded dojo
Offers four distinct disciplines under one roof: Karate, BJJ, Judo, and Aikido — rare for a single dojo
Design Phase
Every design decision was intentional — informed by the research, not pulled from a template library.
Visual Direction
Japanese-inspired dark palette (kuro/black) with hinomaru red sun accents, clean typography, and martial arts photography with dramatic gradient overlays.
Design Rationale
A dojo founded by a Japanese national karate team member demands authentic Japanese design sensibility. The dark, disciplined palette with hinomaru red accents honours the tradition while the modern layout appeals to Melbourne's fitness-conscious audience.
Build Phase
Site Architecture
// Next.js App Router
Methodology
Spark (research agent) scraped Azuma Dojo'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 Azuma Dojo. 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 7-page Next.js application from scratch — 3 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
Research sourced from azumadojo.com.au, Google reviews, and social media profiles. All business data — services, team, pricing, hours — extracted and verified from public sources.
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 Azuma Dojo's site in 5 minutes. Same process, same quality — a custom website built for you, not a template.