Pilgrimz
A digital cultural-mediation platform for territories and heritage sites.
Problem
Tourism offices and heritage sites want to offer travellers cultural trails they can follow hands-free and offline, without installing anything on site; to reach the travellers who are not there yet; and to know what visitors actually do in their territory. Pilgrimz is the digital cultural-mediation platform that makes it possible.What I did
- Co-founder and CTO: I lead the technical vision and roadmap and stay hands-on in development.
- Built the full platform: iOS and Android app (React Native), SaaS back-office (Next.js) and Node API.
- Designed an AI pipeline that lets clients publish multilingual, GPS-triggered cultural trails in minutes.
Stack and architecture
- Mobile app that plays each story when the traveller reaches the place (GPS geofencing, offline city packages, nothing to install on site), with a social layer: follows, a wall and reactions to share every discovery.
- Multi-tenant professional back-office where tourism offices and local partners create and manage their trails in several languages, and see what travellers actually did in their territory.
- API with AI-assisted content generation and a quality pipeline for point-of-interest descriptions, on managed Postgres.
Outcome
- 600+ cities, 90 countries, 1,500+ published routes, in 9 languages.
- Every traveller becomes an ambassador: what they discover and share brings the territory to people who have not visited yet.
- Tourism offices and sites get GDPR-compliant data back on what Pilgrimz users actually did in their territory.
- Live on the App Store and Google Play.