Global Minang Ventura · 2026

An AI-native build, from first pitch to live product

How we answered “can you build this?” with a working proof of concept — then shipped a bilingual, investor-grade website and a database-free CMS in a 7-day AI-native build.

gmv-cloudflare-v2.pages.dev
The Brief

A heritage venture that needed to look like the future.

Global Minang Ventura is the official licensed partner of Restoran Sederhana — a 54-year-old Padang restaurant brand with ~200 locations — on a mission to scale Minang cuisine to international markets. To raise capital and attract regional partners, GMV needed a website that read like an investor-grade venture, not a restaurant page.

The prospect came to us with a simple question: “Can you build this?” Instead of a deck, we answered with working software. What followed became a showcase of how we deliver — an AI-native workflow that compresses the slow, expensive parts of web delivery into a fraction of the usual time and cost.

The Challenge

Four constraints that usually slow a project down.

01

Prove it before the proposal

The client wanted certainty, not promises. We needed to show a tangible, interactive product before any contract — turning the sales conversation into a working demo.

02

Read the client’s taste, fast

Style is subjective and revision cycles kill timelines. We needed a way to converge on the right visual direction in days, not weeks of back-and-forth.

03

Original brand media, on a startup budget

An investor-grade hero needs cinematic visuals. Stock wouldn’t do, and a full production shoot was out of scope for an early-stage venture.

04

Let a non-technical team self-update

GMV needed to edit copy, swap the hero video, and publish articles in two languages — without a developer, a database, or a monthly platform bill.

The AI-Native Workflow

From “can you build this?” to a live product.

It started with a proof of concept and a signed deal — then a 7-day build, where every day replaced a slow, manual step with an AI-accelerated one. No craft lost, no control given up.

Pre-contract

Proof of Concept

The prospect asked, “can you build this?” Instead of a deck, we answered with a working proof of concept — a tangible, interactive product they could feel in their hands, not imagine from slides.

AssetPOC — live demo
AssetPOC — hero concept
Approved

Deal closed

Seeing it work made the proposal an easy yes. With the deal signed, we moved straight into a tightly scoped 7-day build — taste-finding first, production second.

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Day 1 · Direction

Three different variants, in a single day

We built three genuinely different directions — distinct layouts, type, and mood — and shipped them as live pages using Figma Sites for speed. Fast, cheap iteration on the cheapest layer, designed to surface what the client actually responds to.

AssetVariant 1
AssetVariant 2
AssetVariant 3
Figma Sites
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Day 2 · Feedback

Read the feedback, narrow to two

We gathered feedback on the three directions and understood what the client wanted — and what they didn’t. We narrowed to two refined variants, sharpening toward the direction that resonated.

AssetRefined variant A
AssetRefined variant B
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Day 3 · Locked

Direction chosen — now it’s only about the hero video

The client chose their variant. With the style settled, the only open question became the hero video. We produced two video heroes to choose from — the debate was no longer “what should it look like?”, just “which one feels right?”

AssetHero video — option 1
AssetHero video — option 2
Veo 3Seedream 2.0
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Day 4 · Revision

Pick one, refine it

The client liked one of the two but wanted changes. We revised the chosen hero video to spec — fast turnaround, because AI generation lets us iterate on the asset itself, not just the edit.

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Day 5 · Content & CMS

Finish the CMS and inner-section copy

We completed the custom CMS and wrote the copywriting for the inner sections — market opportunity, expansion model, the partner story — so the site read like an investor-grade venture, not a template.

Custom CMSGitHub · .mdCopywriting
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Day 6 · QA

Internal & client testing

A full pass of internal and client testing — content accuracy, responsive behavior, CMS editing flows, and the bilingual EN/ID experience — so nothing surprised us at launch.

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Day 7 · Launch

Migrate to production

We migrated to production on Cloudflare. From “can you build this?” to a live, self-serve, bilingual product — in seven working days.

Cloudflare
The AI Toolchain

Original brand media — generated, not sourced

Investor-grade imagery and cinematic video, produced with AI instead of a production crew or stock library.

Nano Banana Pro
Image generation
Veo 3
Video generation
Seedream 2.0
Video generation
Figma Sites
Rapid variant prototyping
The Architecture

Three moving parts. No database. No lock-in.

A deliberately lean system: content as files, a friendly editor on top, and global hosting underneath.

Edit
Custom CMS Interface
Bilingual (EN/ID) admin panel. Non-technical team edits text, media, and articles.
Store
GitHub Repo · .md
All content as Markdown files. Versioned, portable, no database. Written via GitHub token.
Serve
Cloudflare Pages
Fast, global, near-zero cost. Auto-rebuilds when content changes.
Team edits in CMS Commits .md to GitHub Cloudflare rebuilds Live site updates

No database to maintain, no per-seat CMS subscription, and full content ownership — it all lives in the client’s own GitHub repository.

The Result

A shipped, self-serve, investor-ready product.

7 days
From signed deal to production launch
5
Design variants explored in the first two days
$0
Database cost — Markdown + GitHub + Cloudflare
EN/ID
Fully bilingual, client-editable content
Why This Workflow Wins

What an AI-native partner delivers.

Speed that changes the conversation

Day-long iteration loops mean the client sees real options fast — so projects converge instead of dragging through revision cycles.

Decisions on the cheap layer

We settle style in Figma before touching production code, so expensive engineering only happens once the direction is locked.

Original media, generated

Nano Banana Pro, Veo 3 and Seedream 2.0 produce brand-grade imagery and video — cinematic results without a production budget.

Lean, ownable infrastructure

No database, no lock-in. Content lives in the client’s own GitHub repo and runs at near-zero cost on Cloudflare.

True client autonomy

A custom CMS lets a non-technical team update everything themselves — bilingual copy, media, and articles — with no developer in the loop.

Proof before promises

We lead with working software. You see what you’re buying before you commit to it.

Build with us

Have something you want to see built — not just pitched?

We’ll answer “can you build this?” the same way we did for GMV: with a working proof of concept you can hold.