🏢 Advocacy · Melbourne CBD, Melbourne
Melbourne CBD · Local Business
Research Phase
Before writing a single line of code, our research agent studied Mark Black — Barrister — their current website, social presence, reviews, team, and services. Here's what stood out.
Member of Duncan's List (List W) at the Victorian Bar — one of the well-established clerking services that coordinates briefs and court appearances for Melbourne barristers
Practises from Melbourne CBD chambers (VIC 3000), where barristers are typically chambered on William Street or at Owen Dixon Chambers (205 William St) — the traditional heart of Melbourne's legal precinct
Research revealed an unusually opaque online presence for a practising barrister — the VicBar profile returned 404, Duncan's List domain could not be resolved, and the Australian Bar Association site was down (521 error)
Design Phase
Every design decision was intentional — informed by the research, not pulled from a template library.
Visual Direction
A 6-page site structured around practice areas, notable cases, legal insights, about, and contact — 8 components across 1,755 lines of TSX. The design uses a ConsultationPrep interactive tool as its bespoke feature, with AnimatedSection components providing measured, professional transitions throughout.
Design Rationale
Barristers at the Victorian Bar typically present with restrained professionalism and formal authority. The design reflects this — structured, authoritative, and information-dense without being flashy. The ConsultationPrep tool serves a practical purpose: solicitors and clients referring briefs need to understand areas of expertise and prepare relevant materials, making the site a functional professional tool rather than just a brochure.
Build Phase
Site Architecture
// Next.js App Router
Methodology
Spark (research agent) scraped Mark Black — Barrister'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 Mark Black — Barrister. 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 checked 7 sources but achieved low data completeness. Brave Search API was exhausted before research began. Google web_fetch was blocked by bot detection. LinkedIn returned 999 status. The VicBar barrister profile returned 404 and Duncan's List domain could not be resolved. The Australian Bar Association site was down (521). Verified facts are limited to: Mark Black is a barrister, member of Duncan's List (List W), practising from Melbourne CBD. This highlights a common pattern where barristers rely on clerking list referrals rather than direct web presence.
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 Mark Black — Barrister's site in 10 minutes. Same process, same quality — a custom website built for you, not a template.