Meet the team behind Build Your Book
One founder, one grandma, and 35 years of bedtime stories. Every storybook on this platform carries a piece of both of them.
Priyal Dhrumit Shah
Founder & Storyteller
By day she was designer of electrical panels and trainer to young engineers. By night she's the mom 7-year-old Shivank runs to for one more bedtime story. Priyal Dhrumit Shah is a 34-year-old engineer, trainer and panel designer — a woman in tech who watched her son ask, night after night, for a story where *he* was the hero. Inspired by her mother-in-law Jayshree's storytelling magic, she taught an AI to do what every parent wishes a book could do: put their child's name, face and world inside the story. Young. Energetic. Endlessly social. The founder behind Build Your Book.
Connect on LinkedInJayshree Jayesh Shah
Storyteller for 35 years
Long before any AI could write a children's story, Jayshree Jayesh Shah was already telling thousands of them - first to her two sons Dhrumit and Viranch, then to her daughters-in-law Priyal and Vibhuti, and today to her grandchildren Shivank and Ziana. At 62, with a lifetime in teaching and child development, Jayshree is the soul our AI is tuned to. Every story Build Your Book generates is held to one quiet question: *would Grandma Jayshree approve?* She is the woman who inspired Priyal to build this platform - and the warm, unhurried voice every algorithm here learns from.
Our North Star
Build Your Book is an AI system that understands children, parents, storytelling, and creators — and continuously learns how to grow a storytelling business.
Here's what that means concretely — every feature we've shipped maps to one of these five pillars.
Understanding children
Every story passes a triple-checked child-safety review.
- 4 age bands (3-5 · 6-8 · 9-12 · 13-16) with reading-level-aware text
- 16 mother-tongue languages - incl. Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Bengali, English
- Triple safety: Prompt filter → LLM moderation → Output check
- Accessibility narration (male / female / cloned-voice) for low-vision kids
Understanding parents
Bedtime, gifts, side-income — built for the messy reality of parenting.
- Bedtime mode: TTS lulls kids to sleep without you reading aloud
- NRI angle - keep your child rooted in their mother tongue from abroad
- Gift a personalised storybook/ subscription to another parent in 60 seconds
- ₹50 / $0.55 single-buy for parents who want one book, not a plan
Understanding storytelling
Five-chapter arc with character-consistent illustrations and optional cinematic video.
- Gemini 2.5 Flash text + Nano Banana per-chapter illustrations
- Cover, back cover, and chapter art all share the same protagonist
- Voice cloning - your voice (or grandma's) narrates the story
- Cinematic Kling-2.1 video for premium subscribers
Understanding creators
Publish to the Marketplace, export to Kindle, keep 100% of royalties.
- Marketplace with creator-owned pricing + Razorpay payouts
- One-click Kindle (KDP) EPUB3 export for active subscribers
- Auto-drafted Amazon listing copy - title, description, 7 keywords, BISAC
- Legendary Builder for custom subscription quotes & per-component pricing
Continuously learning to grow
An AI engine that publishes parenting content, opens an Agent API, and gets discovered everywhere.
- Building & Working with GrowthOS - "Chief Growth AI Agent" - of Build Your Book
- Public Agent API so ChatGPT / Perplexity / Gemini can buy storybooks for users
- llms-full.txt + ?ref=ai-agent attribution across every public surface
- Parenting & Child-development Academy with Articles by Grandma Jayshree
Every feature on the roadmap has to earn its place against one of these five pillars. If it doesn't make children safer, parents calmer & comfortable, storytelling richer, creators wealthier, or the business smarter, it doesn't ship.
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