Persona

architecture
landing page
information enter
web scraping
app photo uploading

Inspiration

We wanted to reimagine travel as something more than just sightseeing as a way to explore who you could become. Many professionals dream about living or working abroad, but it’s hard to visualize what that future might actually look like. We aim to turn travel into a personalized, professional, and emotional experience where users can explore cities through the lens of their career identity and aspirations.

What it does

PersonaVerse is an AI-driven travel and lifestyle platform where users input their professional persona (e.g., “UI/UX Designer,” “Software Engineer,” “Actor”) and a city they want to visit. The system then:

Fetches persona-relevant data such as events, companies, conferences, and venues in the chosen city, including start times, locations, and contact information.
Generates an AI itinerary that maximizes persona relevance, clusters activities by neighborhood, aligns chronologically, and syncs with the user’s Calendar.
Stores user trip data (photos, timestamps, emotional captions, and geolocations) in Firebase for further personalization.
Transforms memories into storytelling using OpenAI’s Image and Text APIs, the app creates an AI-generated narrative slideshow that visualizes the traveler’s experiences and emotions.

The result is a personalized, meaningful, and imaginative travel journey where users see themselves in it.

How we built it

For our prototype stage, we used Creao to rapidly visualize the user flow and system logic. We integrated the following components into our technical stack:

iOS App built to allow travel guides or companions to record travelers’ experiences, emotions, and locations throughout the itinerary.
Live web scraping data using Bright Data for persona-based datasets to simulate the itinerary and API fetching
Firebase for storing user trip data, itinerary details, and photo metadata.
OpenAI APIs for generating narratives, captions, and slideshow visuals.
Google MCP Servers to validate scheduling data and calendar syncs.

This multi-layered system bridges data, AI, and design to create a holistic travel storytelling experience.

Challenges we ran into

Creao platform constraints — limited space and restricted code editing made implementing multi-layer logic difficult, so we had to modularize logic externally. Web scraping integration

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Established a solid architecture for future scalability and real-world API connections. Designed an iOS app to record the emotional and experiential dimensions of travel. Fully integrated Firebase, OpenAI for live data handling and AI narrative generation.

What we learned

The importance of modular design when prototyping in limited or “black box” platforms. That a product’s value lies not only in technical completion but also in how it makes users feel and imagine their potential futures.

What's next for PersonaVerse

Expand the calendar sync and recommendation engine to support dynamic scheduling and rescheduling. Enhance the narrative slideshow into a full AI-generated travel journal with video and voice narration. Scale to a web and mobile unified platform with richer UI and community features where users can share their “future-self journeys.”