TasteCanvas

Inspiration

Third-party cookies are dying, and demographic ad targeting is going with them. But "personalization" today still means guessing from age brackets and zip codes. We asked: what if an ad creative started from taste instead — the music you love, the films you rewatch, the subcultures you belong to? Qloo's Taste Graph makes that possible without touching any personal identity data.

What it does

TasteCanvas is a taste-driven AI ad workshop. You pick a persona (Jazz Lover, Streetwear Fan, Minimalist — or describe your own tastes in free text), and a creative-director agent generates a complete, bespoke ad creative for the same product: a different product angle, different visual, different copy — per taste, side by side.

The demo moment: one sneaker, three tastes, three completely different ads. The jazz lover gets a late-night vinyl ritual. The streetwear fan gets a city energy drop. The minimalist gets quiet functional beauty.

How we built it (Qloo-powered)

• Taste understanding (Qloo): Free-form taste signals are resolved to Qloo tag URNs and sent to the Qloo Insights API (hackathon.api.qloo.com/v2/insights). We pull cross-category brand affinities — no PII, no cookies, fully anonymous.
• Creative-director agent: A four-step pipeline (perceive → reason → generate → self-check) turns affinity data into creative decisions: which product to push, which angle, which visual brief, which headline. Every step leaves a visible decision trace in the UI.
• Live generation: Each ad visual is generated on the spot by an image model; copy is composed from the agent's brief. Nothing is pre-baked.
• Stack: TypeScript, Cloudflare Workers (API + static frontend in one deployment).

What's Qloo-powered about it

Qloo isn't a garnish here — it's the steering wheel. The brand affinity ranking is the creative brief: it decides the product, the angle, and the mood. Swap the taste signal and you get a measurably different campaign, because the underlying taste graph says these audiences genuinely like different things. The agent's decision trace shows exactly which Qloo entities drove each choice.

Try it

Live demo: https://tastecanvas-api.nickylin1023.workers.dev/ Hit "Generate all three ads" and watch the agent work.

License

MIT — see the LICENSE file in the repo.

Built With

• api
• cloudflare
• qloo
• typescript
• workers