Arjun Adhikari

Before founding MintMyStory, Arjun built NIRAMAYA — an edge-AI offline medication adherence app — where he developed deep experience in building highly reliable tools with strict data privacy, utilizing on-device machine learning and computer vision.

The motivation for MintMyStory came from a specific technical problem: generative AI models produce a different character face on every image. For children's books, this is disqualifying — a child cannot follow a story if their brain must re-identify the protagonist on every page. Arjun built Character Anchoring to solve this without falling into the trap of photo uploads, which would generate biometric data for thousands of children.

He also built the ADHD-friendly story mode after researching the sleep and attention regulation literature for children with ADHD — specifically the work of Dr. Russell Barkley on self-regulation deficits and Van der Heijden et al. on melatonin onset delay in ADHD children.

The generative AI explosion produced incredible technology — but nearly every personalized storybook tool failed in the same two ways: privacy and consistency. Platforms were asking parents to upload dozens of photos of their children. From an engineering standpoint, that's generating biometric data on children — the most sensitive possible category of personal data.

Character Anchoring is the technical answer I built to that problem. You describe your child in text. The system generates a consistent visual identity from that description. The character looks like your child across every page — and zero biometric data is ever created or stored.