Overview
What the project is designed to do
An independent DutchGreen portfolio demonstration pairing responsive landscape-service discovery with a guided estimate flow and a clearly separated fictional customer and field-operations workspace.
Visitors can explore services and projects before preparing a three-step estimate request with validation, review, and explicit demonstration boundaries.
A cookie-gated portfolio workspace presents synthetic leads, customers, jobs, schedules, crews, materials, invoices, and deterministic assistance without real authentication.
Intended users
Who the release supports
Prospective Ottawa landscaping customers and fictional operations staff reviewing estimate, scheduling, and field-work workflows.
Problem
What needed to change
A public landscaping experience and an internal operations concept needed to feel connected without implying that estimates, accounts, notifications, or customer records were operating in production.
Solution
How the release responds
Build one coherent responsive journey, label the workspace as a portfolio demonstration, validate requests at the API boundary, and keep all operational records fictional.
Key features
What visitors can use
- Service and project discovery
- Three-step estimate preparation
- Responsive customer and operations workspace
- Lead, job, crew, material, and invoice views
- Deterministic and clearly labelled assistance
Implementation
How it was built
- 01
Next.js Server Components provide the route foundation with small interactive client islands.
- 02
Zod validates and limits the estimate request handled by the same-origin API.
- 03
A local HttpOnly cookie opens the synthetic workspace while persistence and notification delivery remain disabled.
Architecture
Delivery shape
A Next.js and React application separates public routes, a validation-focused estimate endpoint, and cookie-gated synthetic workspace routes without a production data backend.
Product boundary
What this release does not claim
- Independent portfolio demonstration with synthetic records and photos, not an affiliated DutchGreen service
- No real customer data, identity provider, persistence, appointments, notifications, or remote AI
