🧠 Next.js AI Website Builder
Technical Leadership Case Study
Business Impact
- 🚀 40% faster development cycles for client projects
- 🛠️ 100% WCAG compliance via AI auditing
Architecture Diagrams
1. High-Level System Design
Key Innovations:
- Hybrid rendering: SSG for marketing pages, SSR for user-specific previews
- AI-as-a-plugin architecture allowing hot-swappable AI providers
2. Real-Time Accessibility Pipeline
Decisions
- Web Workers to prevent UI thread blocking
- Differential auditing (only scans changed DOM nodes)
- Fix confidence scoring (only auto-applies >90% confidence fixes)
Technical Leadership Highlights
1. Cross-Functional Alignment
- Product: Co-designed "Fix Confidence Threshold" slider with PM
- Legal: Built audit trail for ADA compliance documentation
- DevEx: Created VSCode extension for local a11y checks
2. Performance Optimization
| Metric | Before | After |
|---|
| Audit Time | 4.2s | 0.8s |
| AI Token Usage | $12/hr | $3/hr |
| TTI (Preview) | 3.1s | 1.4s |
How:
- DOM diffing with
MutationObserver - Prompt compression for GPT-4 calls
- CDN caching for common component fixes