AI & Custom Integrations - Education Platform
The Challenge
Educational content creators and enterprises face significant friction when transforming raw informational assets into structured, engaging narratives. The Telling-Your-Stories (TYS) platform needed to address this by supporting a highly complex, AI-driven storytelling workflow capable of ingesting and processing diverse media files-including audio recordings, images, PDFs, and Google Drive imports. Ensuring secure upload, reliable storage, accurate transcription, OCR, and content extraction introduced substantial technical challenges. At the same time, the platform had to maintain strong data security, scalable API performance, and seamless coordination between a NestJS backend and a Next.js frontend, all while supporting large volumes of media-rich educational content.
Beyond media ingestion, the system required an extensive orchestration of multi-stage AI operations: generating summaries, creating multiple story themes, producing eight-part stories, regenerating specific sections, generating images, and synthesizing voiceovers using platforms such as ElevenLabs. This end-to-end workflow-traditionally slow, manual, and dependent on multiple disjointed tools-needed to operate automatically and at scale. Ensuring factual accuracy added further complexity, requiring AI-generated summaries to be validated against user-uploaded documents and trusted web sources. Coordinating all these interconnected tasks with speed, accuracy, and reliability while delivering a smooth user experience represented one of the most significant challenges in building a modern, enterprise-grade storytelling ecosystem.
Our Solution
To address these challenges, the Telling-Your-Stories (TYS) platform was designed as a unified, enterprise-grade ecosystem that streamlines the entire storytelling lifecycle, from media ingestion to AI-powered narrative creation. The solution begins with a robust NestJS backend capable of securely handling large and diverse media files such as audio, images, PDFs, and Google Drive imports. Advanced processing pipelines were implemented to perform accurate transcription, OCR, and document parsing, ensuring that all uploaded content is transformed into clean, structured text ready for downstream AI operations. The backend integrates tightly with scalable storage, secure access controls, and efficient background job processing to maintain high performance and reliability under heavy workloads.
The core innovation of the platform lies in its orchestrated, multi-stage AI engine. TYS automates the entire storytelling workflow by passing extracted content through a series of intelligent steps: summarization, theme generation, multi-chapter story creation, refinement of individual segments, image generation for each chapter, and voice synthesis using ElevenLabs. Each stage is modular, allowing the system to maintain state, recover from failures, and reprocess specific components without repeating the entire workflow. This orchestration eliminates the need for multiple disconnected tools and dramatically speeds up the creation of structured, multimedia-rich educational stories.
To ensure factual accuracy, critical in educational environments, the solution incorporates a dedicated fact-checking subsystem. Users can upload reference documents or provide trusted web links, which the platform uses to validate AI-generated summaries and story components. Through context retrieval and verification prompts, the system reduces the risk of misinformation and builds confidence in the outputs. This integrated QA process eliminates the slow, unreliable manual fact-checking workflows traditionally required, enabling educators and content.
The entire experience is delivered through a Next.js (React) frontend that provides creators with a seamless, intuitive interface for managing uploads, monitoring processing stages, reviewing outputs, and regenerating specific story parts as needed. Real-time status updates, clear task progression, and error visibility ensure transparency throughout the pipeline. By combining secure media handling, sophisticated AI orchestration, automated fact-checking, and a modern user experience, the TYS platform successfully transforms a previously fragmented and manual process into a streamlined, scalable, and highly efficient storytelling solution.
