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Detailed tutorials for each of Curatorial's AI-powered tools. Start with the Quick Start, or jump to any guide.

Quick Start

5 minutes to your first insight

Get your first insight in five minutes — the core Curatorial workflow

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Getting the most from Curatorial

How the workspace works

The Curatorial Assistant

5 min

Your always-present research partner — a chat that knows your library and follows what you're working on

Core

Projects & Library

5 min

Where everything lives — organize exhibitions as projects and build a searchable library of materials

Core

Notebooks

6 min

A focused workspace for a question — add sources, chat with grounded answers, generate briefings and timelines

Core

Topics

4 min

Group materials by theme across projects — the connective tissue between your research and your shows

Core

Workflows

The whole job, end to end

Plan an Exhibition, Start to Finish

9 min

The whole arc — from a stack of sources to a written show — using the tools together, in order

Workflow

Exhibition Logistics & Production

8 min

The other half of the show — loan agreements, budget, and the labels and press kit that go out the door

Workflow

Research tools

Tools for structured insight

Insight Extraction

4 min

Map the argument inside a source — claims, evidence, and counter-positions — not a summary

Research

Connection Mapping

5 min

Discover relationships between your materials with interactive graph visualization

Research

Semantic Search

3 min

Find materials by meaning, not keywords — ask questions in natural language

Research

Research Synthesis

5 min

Generate structured data matrices across multiple sources — exportable to CSV/JSON

Research

Gap Analysis

5 min

Find what's missing — the perspectives, periods, and places your research isn't covering yet

Research

Knowledge Graph

5 min

Extract the artists, movements, and places from your sources and see how they interconnect

Research

Directed Inquiry

4 min

Ask a research question across chosen sources — get themes, quotes, gaps, and outside leads, all cited

Research

Research Radar

4 min

Get alerted when new materials connect to old ones — the resonance you'd otherwise miss

Research

Writing tools

Your voice, enhanced

Essay Coaching

7 min

Socratic questions and structured feedback that deepen your thinking — never a ghostwritten draft

Writing

Style Learning

4 min

Teach the AI your voice — tone, vocabulary, sentence rhythm, and phrasing — for suggestions that sound like you

Writing

Hierarchy of Concerns

4 min

Prioritize structural feedback over sentence-level polish — the professional editor's approach

Writing

Content Repurposing

4 min

Transform essays into Instagram, Twitter, wall text, or labels while preserving your voice

Writing

Precision tools

Scholarship done right

Cultural Translation

4 min

Translate across seven languages while preserving citations and academic register

Precision

Citation Manager

4 min

Auto-extract bibliographic metadata in 6 formats — APA, MLA, Chicago, BibTeX, press release, wall label

Precision

Comparative Analysis

5 min

Side-by-side source comparison with contradiction scoring and common ground detection

Precision

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