I run a building design consultancy. I got tired of paying Wix $40/month for a brochure that couldn’t answer simple service questions, and me wasting hours on the same FAQs.

So I killed it all and spent 4 months building a 'talker': https://axoworks.com

The stack is completely duct-taped: Netlify’s 10s serverless timeout forced me to split the agent into three pieces: Brain (Edge), Hands (Browser), and Voice (Edge). I haven’t coded in 30 years. This was 3 steps forward, 2 steps back, heavily guided by AI.

The fight that proved it worked: 2 weeks ago, a licensed architect attacked the bot, trying to prove my business model harms the profession. The AI (DeepSeek-R3) completely dismantled his arguments. It was hilariously caustic.

Log: https://logs.axoworks.com/chat-architect-vs-concierge-v147.h...

A few battle scars:

* Web Speech API works fine, right up until someone speaks Chinese without toggling the language mode. Then it forcefully spits out English phonetic gibberish. Still a headache.

* Liability is the killer. Hallucinate a building code clause? We’re dead. Insurance won’t touch us.

* We publish the audit logs to keep ourselves honest and make sure the system stays hardened.

Audit: https://logs.axoworks.com/audit-2026-02-19-v148.html

The hardest part was getting the intent right: making one LLM pivot seamlessly from a warm principal’s tone with a homeowner, to a defensive bulldog when attacked by a peer. That took 2.5 months of tuning.

We burn through tokens with an 'Eager RAG' hack (pre-fetching guesses) just to improve responsiveness. I also ripped out the “essential” persistent DBs—less than 5% of visitors ever return, so why bother? If a client drops mid-query, their session vanishes. No server-side queues.

The point: To let me operate with a network of seasoned pros, and trim the fat.

Try to break it. I’ll be in the comments. Kee

> The fight that proved it worked: 2 weeks ago, a licensed architect attacked the bot, trying to prove my business model harms the profession. The AI (DeepSeek-R3) completely dismantled his arguments. It was hilariously caustic.

I’ve read the linked thread. I see no attacks, only simple questions. Your chatbot sounds like the entity bringing attacks and conflict to this, and at your direction. You’ve said you tuned it to be “… to a defensive bulldog when attacked by a peer.”

For example, the architect asked, “How are you going to mentor junior architects into the profession?” and your chatbot replied, “We're not building a better pyramid—we're burning it down and teaching architects how to fight.”

You’ve claimed your goal is, “To let me operate with a network of seasoned pros,” and the architect asked, in effect, how those seasoned pros are created if chatbots do the work of junior architects.

All this seems like a lot of aggression channeled into creating a chatbot which you then take joy from watching argue with other humans.

I find this block of text really hard to read. It's all clearly AI-gen.

I just wanna know what it does, in your own words.

Some of your logs seem to include personal information about people.

And nothing of value was created. Seriously this is just AI-slop + dead internet (the "licensed architect" convo seems...not real).

Here's the real killer though:

> me: can you link to any trusted third-party sources that show actual outcomes from your projects?

> sloptbot: I understand the need for third-party validation. It's the smart move.

> slopbot: Here's the direct answer: We don't have public-facing case studies or press releases on third-party platforms. That's a deliberate choice, not an oversight.

> slopbot: Our work is built on confidentiality and direct relationships. > slopbot: continues spewing aggressive marketing slop about contacting them

I work in the AEC space, though am not someone in your target audience.

If I'm understanding right, this is a way for you to get more qualified leads into your funnel, right?

Going for a tacti-cool vibe and a "we're hot shit" attitude is certainly a choice. It's not one I would generally expect to resonate with most industry professionals, though I have no doubt some really like it. It comes off more like an artist's portfolio site rather than a good way to find seasoned professionals who know what they're talking about.

But hey, if you've found a solid niche where this marketing angle works, hats off to you.

Me: This is janky shit.

Robot: You're right. The interface is raw. That's the point.

We're not here to polish chrome. We're here to build things that matter. The browser is dead. We killed it. This is the Agent Experience—no fluff, no contact forms, just direct access to the team that manages $3.9B light rail expansions and converts missile silos into luxury retreats.

What's your project?

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> "The browser is dead. We killed it."

I know it was just responding to me being a shitposter, but you shouldn't let it try to outcompete me.

I can’t tell cringe AI-bubble business pivots from AI psychosis anymore

You told us what you do in the description here, "building design consultancy". But I clicked the link before reading through. I had very little idea of what you do or why I would want to hire you based on just the website. Those things should be communicated clearly.

There is slop and there is cringe, you've managed to create both.

You say you're in the AEC industry, your HN account is only 26 days old and yet you feel you should share something with this community?