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TypeConsumer product buildStageLiveYear2026

Beary Time

A few sentences about a child become a nine-page illustrated book that stays on-model throughout.

Client

a children's plush toy and storytelling brand

Deliverables

Consumer AI Product · Image Generation Pipeline · Subscription Commerce · Child Safety

Stack

Next.js 16 (App Router) · React 19 · TypeScript · Tailwind 4 + shadcn/ui · Supabase (Postgres + Auth + Storage) · Postgres Row-Level Security · Google Gemini 3.5 Flash (story, safety classifier, vision critic) · fal.ai (nano-banana-2/edit, flux/dev) · Stripe (subscriptions + one-time purchases) · Resend · Zod · TanStack Query · Vitest · Vercel (hosting + cron)

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The page-flip reader open on pages 2–3 of a finished book — the same child, companion, and plush bear rendered on-model across both pages

The same child on every page

Pages 2 and 3 of a finished book, side by side — the child, the companion, and the bear identical across both. This is the thing off-the-shelf AI can't do, and it's the whole product.

The character approval step — a generated character portrait with a plain-English edit box and an approve button

A character the parent approves first

Before any book is drawn, the parent reviews the character and edits it in plain English — "make her hair lighter and longer" — until it looks right. That approved sheet anchors every page that follows.

A finished book cover in the reader — a titled, illustrated adventure ready to open

A real book, not a template

Every adventure gets its own cover, title, and nine illustrated pages — written and drawn for one specific child, then checked by a vision model before anyone sees it.

The adventure preview shown right after setup — an illustrated opening scene and the first lines of the story

A few sentences in, a story out

Moments after a parent describes their child, the opening scene comes back — illustrated in the chosen art style — before they've paid for anything.

01 — The problem

A plush-toy brand wanted every bear to ship with a storybook starring the child who owns it — a real book, not a name dropped into a template. Off-the-shelf AI can't do it: ask for nine pages of the same child and you get nine different children, a bear that changes color between pages, and a world that resets each spread. And because it's for five-year-olds, nothing it produces can ever come back unsafe — with no human checking each one.

02 — What we built

Beary Time turns a few sentences about a child into a nine-page illustrated adventure starring that child, a companion, and Fuzzy the plush bear. The whole thing runs unattended: a parent describes their child, approves a character sheet, and the book writes and illustrates itself. The hard part is keeping the child on-model across every page, and we solve it in three layers — a locked story guide, a reference sheet for each character, and each page built from the one before it. A vision model then checks every finished page against the character sheet and re-does any that drift. Two independent safety checks gate everything, and both fail closed. Payments, credits, and a continuing saga for subscribers round it out.

  • A few sentences about a child become a full nine-page illustrated book — written, drawn, and checked without anyone in the loop.
  • Three stacked layers keep the child, the companion, and the bear on-model across every page.
  • A vision model reviews every finished page against the character sheet and re-renders any that drift.
  • Two independent child-safety checks gate every page, and both fail closed on anything uncertain.
  • A child's reference photos are deleted the moment the parent approves the character sheet.
  • Subscribers get a continuing saga — each new book remembers the characters and threads of the last.
03 — The result

Live at bearytime.com. Once a parent approves the character sheet, no human touches the book again: writing, illustration, safety review, and billing run end to end on their own.

9-page illustrated adventure per story
3 stacked layers of character consistency
Fail-closed two-layer child-safety review
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