Visionary Tales

The problem

Video has become the dominant discovery channel for books, but producing it title by title sits far outside most publishers' marketing budgets. In practice it happens for lead titles and nobody else.

The solution

Visionary Tales lets a rights holder upload a manuscript and generate storyboards and AI-generated video from it, without film-production or programming skills. The positioning is explicitly human–AI collaboration: the user can intervene at any stage rather than accept whatever comes out.

What is distinctive

It reads the manuscript itself as source material, which opens a route from marketing asset towards rights exploitation and film adaptation – not just a trailer, but a first visual treatment of the book.

Evidence

• Munich-based; founded 2018, before the release of ChatGPT, out of founder Veronika Gamper's doctoral research.
• Received Creative Europe funding for the Visionary Tales product.
• Won Renew the Book 2026 (€10,000 and mentorship); the jury advised sharpening focus through a concrete pilot with a publisher.

Compiled from public sources, August 2026. Not yet reviewed by the organisation.