🌿 Landscaping · Northcote, Melbourne
Jardins Extraordinaires
Research Phase
Before writing a single line of code, our research agent studied LaFontaine Landscape — their current website, social presence, reviews, team, and services. Here's what stood out.
Founded by Marc LaFontaine — born in Lyon, trained in landscape architecture at ENSP Versailles, brought French garden traditions to Melbourne in 2008
Senior designer Sarah Chen's work has won multiple AILDM awards, and construction manager Tom Briggs has a background in stonemasonery
Design process draws on French formal traditions, Japanese minimalism, AND Australian native landscapes — a genuinely unique cross-cultural approach
Design Phase
Every design decision was intentional — informed by the research, not pulled from a template library.
Visual Direction
Lush emerald-green palette with botanical photography, elegant serif typography, and gradient overlays that evoke walking through a garden at different light levels.
Design Rationale
A Versailles-trained landscape architect working in Melbourne deserves a website that feels like entering a garden. Deep emerald gradients transition like canopy light, and the French tagline ('Jardins Extraordinaires') signals European sophistication immediately.
Build Phase
Site Architecture
// Next.js App Router
Methodology
Spark (research agent) scraped LaFontaine Landscape'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 LaFontaine Landscape. 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 — 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
Research sourced from www.lafontainelandscape.com.au, Google reviews, and social media profiles. All business data — services, team, pricing, hours — extracted and verified from public sources.
For Reference
LaFontaine Landscape's current website: www.lafontainelandscape.com.au
View Our Version →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 LaFontaine Landscape's site in 5 minutes. Same process, same quality — a custom website built for you, not a template.