🏢 Hair · Sunbury, Melbourne
Sunbury · Local Business
Research Phase
Before writing a single line of code, our research agent studied MHS Hair Studio — their current website, social presence, reviews, team, and services. Here's what stood out.
Run by owner-stylist Mel from 14 Horne Street in Sunbury, with 788 Facebook likes and 325 check-ins — a strong local following for a suburban salon with no website
Expanded into nail services in January 2025 by bringing on Geane, a Brazilian nail technician, and Rio as a trainee — with a $20 training-price manicure offered during Jan-Mar 2025 to build the new service line
Clients specifically praise Mel's compassion during challenging times such as illness, with reviews noting 'personal care and compassion shown, especially during challenging times' — an unusually emotional connection for a hair salon
Design Phase
Every design decision was intentional — informed by the research, not pulled from a template library.
Visual Direction
A 6-page site with dedicated pages for services, bridal, transformations, about, and contact — 9 components across 1,456 lines of TSX. The bespoke virtual-chair interactive component lets visitors explore style options, while the testimonial-carousel and image-gallery showcase the salon's community reputation and work quality.
Design Rationale
MHS Hair Studio's identity is built on Mel's personal relationships with clients — they're treated like family, not customers. The design captures this warmth with a personal, community-oriented feel rather than a slick corporate salon aesthetic. The bridal page capitalises on a high-value service category, while the transformations page provides visual proof of the team's skill that reviews consistently highlight.
Build Phase
Site Architecture
// Next.js App Router
Methodology
Spark (research agent) scraped MHS Hair Studio'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 MHS Hair Studio. 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 covered 8 sources including the Facebook page (788 likes, 325 check-ins), directory listings on beautynailhairsalons.com and chamberofcommerce.com, and review aggregation from tyebest.com. No official website exists. Facebook posts provided team information (Georgia joining Wed-Sat, Geane and Rio for nails in 2025) and the $20 training manicure promotion. Data completeness rated medium — service pricing was only found for the training manicure special.
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 MHS Hair Studio's site in 8 minutes. Same process, same quality — a custom website built for you, not a template.