🏢 Local Business · Malvern, Melbourne
Malvern · Local Business
Research Phase
Before writing a single line of code, our research agent studied Cafe Sakura — their current website, social presence, reviews, team, and services. Here's what stood out.
Located on Glenferrie Road in Malvern (postcode 3144) — one of Melbourne's premier shopping strips in the established inner south-east, with Yelp listing it at $ (budget-friendly) pricing
Open 7 days a week, 8am–6pm consistently according to Yelp — unusually long and uniform hours for a suburban cafe, suggesting it serves both morning coffee and afternoon trade
Japanese-inspired naming ('Sakura' meaning cherry blossom) on an otherwise European-dominated cafe strip — a distinctive cultural positioning that sets it apart from surrounding competitors on Glenferrie Road
Design Phase
Every design decision was intentional — informed by the research, not pulled from a template library.
Visual Direction
A 6-page site featuring a Seasonal Menu interactive component that highlights rotating offerings inspired by Japanese seasonal traditions. Built across 1,944 lines of TSX with Menu, Gallery, Catering, and About pages. The design blends Japanese minimalist aesthetics — clean lines, intentional whitespace — with Melbourne cafe warmth through the image gallery and testimonial carousel.
Design Rationale
Cafe Sakura has no website and virtually no online presence beyond a Yelp listing with a single 2-star review. The Japanese cherry blossom name suggests a deliberate cultural identity that deserves expression. The Seasonal Menu component reflects the Japanese concept of 'shun' (旬) — eating with the seasons — transforming a simple menu page into an experience that reinforces the cafe's unique positioning on an otherwise European-leaning cafe strip.
Build Phase
Site Architecture
// Next.js App Router
Methodology
Spark (research agent) scraped Cafe Sakura'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 Cafe Sakura. 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 — 9 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 attempted 15 sources — the most extensive search in this batch — but was severely constrained. Brave Search API quota was exhausted. Yellow Pages, TrueLocal, WhitePages, and Menulog were all blocked by Cloudflare. Google search returned CAPTCHA walls. Data came primarily from the Yelp listing (single review, $ pricing, hours confirmed). No official website exists and no social media profiles were found. The exact street number on Glenferrie Road could not be confirmed. Data completeness rated low.
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 Cafe Sakura's site in 10 minutes. Same process, same quality — a custom website built for you, not a template.