Quick start
Your first insight in five minutes.
Upload a document, extract structured insights, and start an AI-coached essay — the core Curatorial workflow.
Create a project
Sign up or log in, then create your first project. Name it, choose an exhibition type — Solo Show, Group Show, Biennial, or Retrospective — and you're ready to go.
Project creation modal
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Choose 'Solo Show' if you're experimenting — you can change the exhibition type anytime.
Upload your first document
Drag a PDF, image, or press material into the upload zone. Start with a 5–15 page document for the fastest results.
Drag-and-drop upload interface
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Longer documents work perfectly — but shorter ones give you results faster for your first try.
Extract insights
Run Insight Extraction on your document. The AI analyses it and returns 3–10 structured insights, each with a quality score.
Insights with quality scores
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Insight extraction on a 10-page PDF uses roughly 2,000 tokens — about $0.02.
Ask a research question
Use Semantic Search to ask a question across your library. Try something like "What themes connect these materials?"
Semantic search results
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Start your essay draft
Open Essay Coaching and type your opening argument. The AI will respond with a Socratic question — not a draft — to help you develop your thesis.
Essay Coaching interface
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Essay Coaching never writes for you — it asks questions that strengthen your argument.
Next steps
Explore more
Insight Extraction
4 minMap the argument inside a source — claims, evidence, and counter-positions — not a summary
Connection Mapping
5 minDiscover relationships between your materials with interactive graph visualization
Semantic Search
3 minFind materials by meaning, not keywords — ask questions in natural language
Research Synthesis
5 minGenerate structured data matrices across multiple sources — exportable to CSV/JSON
Gap Analysis
5 minFind what's missing — the perspectives, periods, and places your research isn't covering yet
Knowledge Graph
5 minExtract the artists, movements, and places from your sources and see how they interconnect
Directed Inquiry
4 minAsk a research question across chosen sources — get themes, quotes, gaps, and outside leads, all cited
Research Radar
4 minGet alerted when new materials connect to old ones — the resonance you'd otherwise miss
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