🏢 Servicing · Thomastown, Melbourne
Thomastown · Local Business
Research Phase
Before writing a single line of code, our research agent studied H.T's Service Centre — their current website, social presence, reviews, team, and services. Here's what stood out.
An independent mechanic at 113 High Street, Thomastown with no website, no social media profiles, and no extractable online reviews — research across 12 sources (Google Maps, Localsearch, Yellow Pages, TrueLocal, ProductReview, WordOfMouth) hit CAPTCHA and Cloudflare blocks
Located on High Street in Melbourne's northern corridor, the workshop was confirmed via Google Maps coordinates (-37.6826, 145.0147) and a Localsearch listing suggesting Monday 9am opening — a business operating entirely on local reputation
The demo represents a from-scratch digital presence for a business with zero online footprint — no existing website, no Google Business reviews, and services inferred from standard auto mechanic offerings rather than verified listings
Design Phase
Every design decision was intentional — informed by the research, not pulled from a template library.
Visual Direction
A comprehensive 6-page site with home, about, servicing, repairs, roadworthy, and contact pages — built with 9 components including a ServiceIntervalChecker that adds practical utility for a workshop with no digital tools. At 2,282 TSX lines, this is the largest build in the batch, compensating for the lack of existing content.
Design Rationale
H.T's Service Centre has survived on word of mouth alone — no website, no social profiles, no digital presence whatsoever. The 6-page structure with dedicated roadworthy and repairs pages creates the professional online identity the business has never had, while the ServiceIntervalChecker gives potential customers a reason to engage digitally rather than just searching for a phone number.
Build Phase
Site Architecture
// Next.js App Router
Methodology
Spark (research agent) scraped H.T's Service Centre'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 H.T's Service Centre. 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 12 sources but achieved low data completeness due to systematic platform blocks — Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo returned CAPTCHAs, while Yellow Pages, TrueLocal, ProductReview, and WordOfMouth returned Cloudflare 403 errors. The address (113 High Street) was confirmed via Localsearch, and coordinates were extracted from Google Maps. No website, reviews, or social media profiles were found for this business.
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 H.T's Service Centre's site in 12 minutes. Same process, same quality — a custom website built for you, not a template.