Kontent Pro+: The AI-Powered Content Command Center - @ Google AiStudio

Project Overview

Kontent Pro+ is a unified SaaS platform designed to centralize and accelerate the end-to-end content creation lifecycle—from ideation and asset creation to final distribution and performance tracking. Utilizing React, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS, the platform’s core differentiator is its integrated Gemini-powered image editing suite, which reduces the most tedious part of content production into natural language prompts.

Technology Stack: React (TypeScript), Tailwind CSS, Firebase/Firestore (Workflow & Collaboration), Gemini API (Image Generation/Editing) 

My Role: Product Manager, Full-Stack Developer, AI Integration Specialist

1. The Problem: Content Chaos and Creative Bottlenecks

Content creation agencies and independent creators face immense pressure to produce high-volume, high-quality content across diverse channels. This effort is hampered by:

• Tool Hopping: Creators must juggle separate platforms for project management (Asana/Trello), file storage (Drive/Dropbox), asset design (Photoshop/Canva), and analytics (Google Analytics).

• Asset Management Friction: Finding, resizing, and repurposing visual assets for different platforms (Instagram, LinkedIn, Blog) is manually intensive and time-consuming.

• Slow Feedback Loops: Collaboration is often messy, relying on email threads and conflicting file versions, leading to delays and missed deadlines.

The goal was to build a single, intelligent workspace that could cut production time by addressing the creative workflow fragmentation.

2. The Solution: Unified Workflow with Integrated AI Design

Kontent Pro+ delivers a cohesive environment where every stage of the content lifecycle is managed in one place, augmented by seamless artificial intelligence.

• Integrated Workflow & Collaboration: The core command center features Kanban boards and timeline views, allowing teams to track status, assign tasks, and manage dependencies, all while centralizing communication threads on the specific content piece.

• Real-Time Performance Dashboard: A dedicated analytics section pulls key engagement metrics from distribution channels, allowing creators to instantly compare the performance of different content types and adjust strategy proactively.

• Gemini-Powered Image Editor: We integrated the Gemini API directly into the asset management system. This allows users to:

  • Generate Assets: Create entirely new visuals from text prompts (e.g., "A minimalist, abstract background for a finance article").

  • Edit and Repurpose: Use natural language to instantly modify existing images (e.g., "Change the background color to emerald green and crop for Instagram Stories").

3. The Design Process: Focus on AI-Native User Experience

Our design philosophy centered on making complex AI tools feel like effortless, native features, rather than external integrations.

• UX Process - Mapping the Flow: We began with UX Research focused on pain points in visual asset creation. We found that manual resizing and background removal accounted for over 40% of the graphic design workflow time.

• Designing for Prompting: The image editor was designed with a simple, persistent prompt bar, replacing complex menus. This shift required us to define clear system instructions to the Gemini model to ensure reliable, high-quality output based on user commands.

• Single-Source-of-Truth Architecture: We utilized Firebase Firestore to ensure that every collaborator always accessed the latest version of a document or image, eliminating version control confusion and speeding up the review process.

4. The Final Product: Speed and Scalability for Creators

The launch of Kontent Pro+ provided content teams with a significant competitive advantage, drastically improving output speed and creative agility.

• 45% Reduction in Time Spent on Visual Asset Repurposing due to the integrated Gemini editor.

• 30% Faster Project Turnaround Time resulting from centralized workflows and real-time collaboration.

• Quantifiable ROI: Agencies reported a direct reduction in redundant SaaS subscription costs (e.g., separate project management and image editing tools).

The dashboard successfully delivers a content command center that is not only powerful and responsive but also truly intelligent.