Built for curators
Seventeen intelligent tools
for research, writing,
and exhibition.
Not a generic AI bolted onto your workflow. Every feature in Curatorial was designed around how curators actually work — moving between fieldwork, archives, studio visits, and the blank page.
Research tools
From scattered notes
to structured insight
Curators gather knowledge from everywhere — gallery visits, academic papers, artist interviews, archive catalogues. Curatorial's research tools bring it all into a single searchable, connectable intelligence.
Insight Extraction
Upload any document and watch Curatorial extract the key insights, themes, and arguments. PDF catalogues, exhibition texts, academic papers — all become searchable knowledge.
Connection Mapping
The AI discovers relationships between your research materials that you haven't spotted yet. Surface unexpected connections between artists, movements, and ideas across your entire library.
Semantic Search
Ask questions of your research in plain language. "Which artists in my library engaged with themes of migration?" finds answers across hundreds of documents instantly.
Comparative Analysis
Place artists, artworks, or texts side by side for structured comparison. The AI moderates the comparison, surfacing similarities and divergences with scholarly precision.
Writing tools
Your voice,
enhanced.
Writing for exhibition is a distinct discipline. It demands scholarly rigour and accessible clarity in the same breath. These tools don't write for you — they help you write better.
Socratic Essay Coaching
Don't receive a draft — develop one. The AI coaches you with questions that deepen your argument, challenge your assumptions, and help you find your own thesis.
Style Learning
Upload samples of your past writing and Curatorial learns your voice. Suggestions adapt to your vocabulary, sentence rhythm, and theoretical register.
Hierarchy of Concerns Editing
Revision that works from the outside in: structure and argument first, then paragraph flow, then sentence-level clarity. The same method taught in the best writing programmes.
Sounding Board Mode
Sometimes you just need to think out loud. Sounding Board responds to your half-formed ideas with clarifying questions, not answers — helping you work out what you actually think.
Content Repurposing
One exhibition essay becomes wall text, a press release, social media posts, and a grant narrative. Curatorial adapts your content to each format while preserving your voice.
Precision tools
Citations, translations,
done right.
The technical scaffolding of curatorial work, handled with care.
Cultural Translation
Translate exhibition texts, artist statements, and research across nine languages while preserving citations, academic register, and your authorial voice. Full right-to-left support for Arabic, Hebrew, and Farsi.
Citation Extraction
Paste in any text and extract properly formatted citations. Supports APA, MLA, Chicago, and Harvard. Integrates with Zotero and CrossRef for automatic metadata enrichment.
OCR Processing
Scanned exhibition catalogues from the 1970s. Hand-annotated gallery notes. Archive photographs. OCR turns any image of text into searchable, editable content.
Smart Document Chunking
Long documents are intelligently split at meaningful boundaries — by section, argument, or theme — so your AI analysis works with coherent units, not arbitrary page breaks.
Team tools
From solo research
to shared exhibitions.
Whether you're a solo curator, part of a small team, or working with institutional partners — Curatorial scales to your practice.
Smart Annotations
Comment on any research item — not just adding notes, but linking your annotation to specific arguments in your essay. Build a live web of evidence for your curatorial thesis.
Media Kit Generation
Generate press releases, artist bios, and image caption sheets from your existing research. Formatted for gallery, museum, and press standards automatically.
Bulk Upload & Processing
Import an entire exhibition archive in one go. Curatorial processes, indexes, and makes searchable hundreds of documents, images, and texts simultaneously.
Role-Based Permissions
Invite collaborators with precisely the access they need — read-only for collectors, comment-only for external reviewers, full edit for your core team.
A different approach to AI
Your keys, your costs,
your control.
Most AI tools charge a significant markup on the underlying model costs — often 10× or more. You pay for convenience, but lose transparency about what you're actually spending on AI.
Curatorial's Scholar and Team plans let you connect your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google API keys. You pay the providers directly at cost, with complete visibility into your token usage. We charge for the platform, not for being a middleman.
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