Muertos.ai: I Built a Durable AI Ofrenda for Día de los Muertos (Gemma + Temporal + Mastra)

Description and use

Muertos.ai is an open‑source platform that generates personalized, historically enriched memorial tributes for Día de los Muertos, ensuring durable storage and semantic search.

Problem

Create a durable, open‑source AI platform that generates personalized, poetic memorial tributes for Día de los Muertos, preserving memories with historical context and ensuring no data loss during failures.

Outcome

Muertos.ai delivers a fully open‑source, durable AI pipeline that creates personalized, historically enriched memorial tributes, ensuring data persistence and semantic search capabilities.

Workflow

• Enter name, birth/death years, relationship, and brief story
• Temporal workflow starts and displays real‑time progress
• SerpApi searches for historical events, songs, news from the era
• Gemma generates a 300‑word poetic tribute weaving Spanish phrases
• ElevenLabs narrates the tribute in a warm multilingual voice
• Store the tribute and embeddings in Tiger Data pgvector and MongoDB Atlas
• Render a beautiful altar page with audio player and era context cards

Evidence

Muertos.ai is a digital ofrenda — a Día de los Muertos memorial platform where you describe a loved one, and an open-source AI pipeline crafts a poetic narrative tribute, narrates it with a warm voice, enriches it with historical context from their era (the music they danced to, the world events they witnessed), and stores everything durably so it can be searched and remembered forever.

Source

Gemma — Google's open-weight model — writes every tribute. That means your family's stories never leave infrastructure you control.

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Temporal workflow starts — you watch each step complete in real time

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