Use case

Be the hero of your own story.

Kids, couples, grandparents or the family dog: one photo turns anyone into the illustrated hero of a one-of-a-kind book, with the same face on every page. The customer picks one of the stories your store offers, edits the text, regenerates any picture and sees the whole book before paying. You print it on the line you already run.

A casual phone photo of a smiling girl with curly hair in a back garden
An open hardcover picture book showing the same girl illustrated as a hero on a space adventure

One snapshot. Twenty-four pages of adventure.

A phone photo from the playground becomes a knight, an astronaut or a deep-sea explorer – and still looks like the same kid on page one and page twenty-four.

A casual phone photo of a smiling girl with curly hair in a back garden
BeforeA phone photo from the garden
A watercolour spread of the same girl in a yellow diving suit among jellyfish, a sunken ship and a whale

Hello, Mr Whale! Is that your ship?

Only on Sundays, Maya!

After · WatercolourDeep-sea explorer
A 3D animated-film style spread of the same girl as an astronaut planting a star flag on the Moon, Earth behind her

I'm planting a star for Grandma!

Beep! Smile, Maya!

After · 3DAstronaut
A classic ink-and-watercolour spread of the same girl as a knight on a pony riding toward a castle, a dragon behind a tree

Don't be scared, dragon!

Knights can be friends? Then I'll carry your shield, Maya!

After · Classic illustrationKnight
1 photoIs all it takes to start
Every pageThe same hero, the same face
+ familyParents, siblings and pets join the story

From one photo to a book about them

01A casual phone photo of a smiling freckled boy in a striped t-shirt at a playground

The customer uploads a photo of the child, adds parents, siblings or the family pet if they like, and picks one of the stories your store offers.

02The same boy drawn as a picture-book character: waving, running and reading

Masterpiece AI draws the child as a picture-book character and keeps that likeness in every scene.

03An open hardcover picture book: the boy as a pirate captain on one page, the story text and a treasure island on the other

The finished pages go to print as a hardcover book the family keeps on the shelf.

Why it sells

01

A gift nobody else can buy

A book where their own child is the hero is personal in a way no shelf book is. Grandparents, birthdays and Christmas bring the same family back every year.

02

The same hero on every page

Masterpiece AI keeps the child's likeness consistent from the cover to the last page, so the book reads as one story, not a set of unrelated pictures.

03

The whole family in the story

Add photos of parents, siblings, grandparents or the family dog and they appear as characters next to the child. Pet owners can even make the pet the hero.

04

Safe and print-ready

Every page is moderated and prepared in print-grade colour, so what the family approves is what comes off the line.

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Inside one book: Maya and the Moon Rocket.

Three pages from a sample book. The highlighted name is the part the customer fills in; the same girl from one photo carries the whole story.

The girl in her back garden next to a cardboard rocket she built, a toy robot in the window

On Saturday morning Maya found a big cardboard box behind the shed. By lunchtime it had wings, a round window and a very loud countdown.

2
The girl looking out of a rocket window above the Moon, with a friendly robot

Three, two, one... whoosh! The rocket zoomed past the clouds. Beep the robot waved hello, and the Moon was close enough for Maya to touch.

3
The girl in star pyjamas sitting on a crescent moon above a sleepy village, holding a lantern

That night Maya sat on a slice of moon and counted every star she had visited. Then she counted sheep, and fell asleep at number seven.

4

One tool. Many ways to earn.

A storybook is not a one-off gift. The same engine sells it for every big moment in a family's year, and brings the same customers back.

A personalized picture book unwrapped from birthday paper next to candles, balloons and confetti
Gifting

Birthdays and holidays

The gift that beats another toy: a book the child keeps, with their own name on the cover.

A grandmother reading a personalized picture book to her grandson on the sofa
Loyal buyers

Grandparents

Among the keenest buyers of personalized books, often ordering one for every grandchild and every birthday.

A girl with a school backpack reading a picture book about her own first day of school
Life moments

New sibling, first day of school, moving house

Stories that help kids through big moments, with their own family in the pages.

A row of matching picture books with the same hero on every cover, by a night lamp
Repeat orders

Bedtime series

One hero, a new adventure each time: once a family has the first book, they come back for the next one in the series.

A class book open on a school table, showing the whole class on a trip, with more copies stacked beside it
Bulk orders

Schools, clubs and events

One book with the whole class or team in it, ordered as a set for every family.

A golden retriever lying next to an open picture book where the same dog is the hero
Cross-sell

Pets as heroes

Not only kids: the family dog or cat stars in its own story, and the same photo sells a sticker pack too.

More ways to sell, from the same engine.

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