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Up and running in
four simple steps.
From sign-up to your first AI-assisted curatorial essay in under ten minutes. No credit card required to begin.
01
First step
Create your
workspace.
Sign up with your email — you’re in the product in under thirty seconds. No credit card, no lengthy onboarding survey.
Your first project is where everything lives: your research, your essay drafts, your exhibition plan. Give it a name and choose the type of exhibition you’re working toward — solo show, group exhibition, institutional survey, public programme.
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Second step
Upload your
research.
Curatorial accepts everything you work with. PDFs of academic papers, exhibition catalogues, and archive documents. Images of handwritten notes or scanned pages — OCR converts them automatically. Artist statements, press releases, and web articles.
Every upload is processed, indexed, and made semantically searchable. Within minutes, you can ask questions across your entire library and receive answers with citations.
- PDF catalogues, papers, and texts
- Image files with automatic OCR
- Artist statements and press materials
- Handwritten notes and sketches
03
Third step
Connect your
AI.
Your Scholar or Team plan lets you connect your own API key from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google — and pay for AI at cost, with full transparency. Or use Curatorial’s included token allocation and start immediately, no setup required.
Either way, the AI has access to your entire research library from day one. It understands the context of your exhibition, the artists you’re working with, and the arguments you’re developing.
Use included tokens
Available from your first day. 50k tokens on the free tier — enough to process dozens of documents.
Bring your own key
Connect OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google directly. Pay at cost with full usage transparency.
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Fourth step — and beyond
Start
curating.
With your research uploaded and AI connected, you’re ready. Ask Curatorial to extract the key themes from your materials. Map connections between artists or artworks you hadn’t noticed. Get coached through the argument of your exhibition essay.
This is where the real work begins — and where Curatorial becomes the most useful tool in your practice.
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