The Tomeza logo above a frame of the film on the Tomeza website: a paper valley at dusk stands up out of an open book, with mountains, pines and one lit cabin window

Web and mobile.

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Unit 3. Our own AI publishing platform

Tomeza

An idea goes in, a book comes out

Takes an idea to an illustrated, formatted book. Planning, writing, illustration and export in one workflow.

Type
Our own product, web and mobile
Lead
Parsa Gholipour, founder and technical lead
We did
Product, application, cloud infrastructure
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The story

The problem

Generating one good page is easy now. Generating forty pages where the rabbit is still the same rabbit, then laying them out for print, is not. And a long run of paid model calls that fails halfway has to fail cleanly.

The idea

Make the character a saved object, and make every generation a job with state. Authors reuse the cast from book to book, and the system can retry, resume and account for credits without losing work.

The result

Tomeza is live for web and mobile. These are captures of its website, which uses sample paintings made for the site. The six interiors are real output from the app’s typesetter.

The Tomeza website: an open book with a painting on the left page and a six-chapter contents page on the right, above the line You read the plan first
The contents and the price come first. Nothing is charged until the author approves the plan.
The Call them section of the Tomeza website: an old man in a rowing boat at night with a telephone to his ear, beside a call timer reading 09:35
Readers can phone a character from their book and talk for up to 15 minutes.
The Tomeza website: two book pages under the request Move the picture of the boat to the next page, and the reply Done
After the last page, a change is one sentence. Undo sits on the message.
Two facing pages on green bookcloth beside the six interior names: Classic, Novel, Elegant, Modern, Minimal and Guide
Six interiors. These pages are real output from the app’s typesetter.

What we built

Application
Node.js, TypeScript, Fastify, React and Flutter
Generation
PostgreSQL job state, Redis and BullMQ queues, retries and credit accounting
Operations
AWS, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD, monitoring and AI spend controls
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