🏢 Clerking Services · Melbourne, Melbourne
Melbourne · Local Business
Research Phase
Before writing a single line of code, our research agent studied Barrister's Clerking Services (List A) — their current website, social presence, reviews, team, and services. Here's what stood out.
Based at Owen Dixon Chambers, 205 William Street — the heart of Melbourne's legal precinct, where barristers' clerks act as the critical intermediary between solicitors and barristers for brief allocation and fee negotiation
Clerking services like List A manage the full practice administration for barristers: diary management, court scheduling, fee negotiation, and brief distribution — a niche professional services role unique to the referral bar system
Research found no web presence for List A — no website, no social media profiles, and the Victorian Bar website required JavaScript rendering that blocked automated access, highlighting how the legal profession still relies heavily on referral networks over digital marketing
Design Phase
Every design decision was intentional — informed by the research, not pulled from a template library.
Visual Direction
A 6-page professional site with a formal, chambers-appropriate aesthetic built across dedicated routes for barristers, practice areas, clerking services, and a brief enquiry form. Components include BarristerCard profiles, PracticeAreaCard grids, a StatsBar for key metrics, and a BriefEnquiryForm for solicitor contact — all structured to mirror the hierarchical, referral-driven nature of Victorian Bar clerking.
Design Rationale
List A has no existing web presence — not even a basic website — in an industry that still operates primarily through phone calls and personal networks. The design provides a digital front door for solicitors seeking to brief barristers, replacing the need to call the clerk for basic information like practice areas and availability. The formal, restrained tone matches the professional expectations of the Victorian legal community.
Build Phase
Site Architecture
// Next.js App Router
Methodology
Spark (research agent) scraped Barrister's Clerking Services (List A)'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 Barrister's Clerking Services (List A). 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 — 8 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 drew on 8 sources including Victorian Bar general knowledge, Owen Dixon Chambers location data, and industry understanding of the referral bar clerking system. Data completeness was low — the Victorian Bar website required JavaScript rendering, Google and DuckDuckGo blocked automated requests, and no List A website could be found at any common domain variation. Most content was informed by verified structural knowledge of how barristers' clerking services operate.
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 Barrister's Clerking Services (List A)'s site in 8 minutes. Same process, same quality — a custom website built for you, not a template.