Bolbeck

Bolbeck creates Bolbeck Imagine, a platform for turning children’s stories and manuscripts into illustrated books and animated experiences. It serves parents, educators, health professionals, authors and organizations, combining illustrations, animation, narration, multilingual translation and interactive elements. Users can create stories for family reading or educational use, with formats that extend beyond a printed book.

Imagine’s Clio AI helps users develop narratives, social narratives and decodable reading materials in more than 30 languages. The platform lets creators assemble images and animations, export books as PDFs for offline reading, download animations or read interactive stories online. Animations also support voiceovers in multiple languages.

Based in Chicago, Bolbeck also provides technology solutions for business challenges. Its educational work includes training volunteers at I Light Empowering children of the world to create personalized illustrated stories and animations on mobile phones. That work applies Imagine to producing learning materials in remote or resource-constrained settings.