Case Study - Speak your website into existence
Digital Hearth is a new paradigm in building websites — voice-first storytelling meets AI to give practitioners, healers, and nature guides a published page and brand language in 20 minutes.
- Client
- Digital Hearth
- Year
- Service
- AI product design, strategy, full-stack development
Overview
There is a gap no website builder has closed. On one side: a somatic practitioner, an herbalist, a breathwork facilitator — someone whose gift is unmistakable in a room. On the other: a blinking cursor and the sinking feeling that the words will never match the work.
Digital Hearth stands in that gap with a new approach. Instead of asking people to write, it asks them to speak. Fifteen questions across three acts — Your Work, A Real Story, What Makes You Different — and the AI listens. Most users choose voice, because the things worth saying about soul work tend to arrive through the mouth before they land on the page.
The AI implementation is designed around a philosophy: it's a witness, not an advisor. It remembers what you said on question three when you're on question fifteen. It notices patterns you're too close to see. It reflects back what it hears without prescribing. The language rules are strict — never optimize, leverage, funnel, or empower. Instead: serve, hold space, what becomes possible, what's alive in you. This is Earth Language applied to AI.
The result is nine pieces of brand copy and a published practitioner page — one-liner, about page, service descriptions, transformation story, social posts — all generated from the practitioner's own words. They can edit anything, adjust the tone with AI suggestions, download a PDF, and share with a custom subdomain.
We built Digital Hearth as the self-service expression of our one-on-one brand coaching. The conviction is simple: the practitioners doing the most transformative work in the world deserve better than a template and a stock photo of stacked stones.
What we built
- AI product design & strategy
- Voice-first conversational UI
- Claude AI engine
- Next.js & MongoDB
- Web Speech API
- Questions to a published page
- 15
- From voice to website
- ~20 min
- Brand copy pieces generated
- 9
- Primary input method
- Voice