Farmers Daughter

The neighbourhood cafe on Bentham Street, online properly.

The problem

The questions a cafe gets asked don't change. Are you open? Do you do gluten-free? Can I bring the dog? Where do I park? They arrive at the counter mid-service, in the Instagram messages, and on the phone in the middle of the breakfast rush — and every one of them is a customer deciding whether to come in.

The build

Five hand-built pages — home, menu, the story, the gallery and how to find them — in the cafe's own warm cream and gold, with Fraunces set large across the top. The whole menu is there with prices and dietary tags, the courtyard and the yellow chairs get a gallery of their own, and the hours know what time it is: the page says open now or closed on its own, without anyone remembering to update it.

The assistant

Ivy sits in the corner of every page — an assistant built on our own saygday.ai, trained on this cafe and nothing else. She answers the four questions above and a few dozen more, instantly, at any hour, straight from what the cafe has told her. She can't invent a price or a closing time, because she only ever says what she's been given.