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Your first insight in five minutes.

Upload a document, extract structured insights, and start an AI-coached essay — the core Curatorial workflow.

5 min readGetting started
01

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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Tip

Choose 'Solo Show' if you're experimenting — you can change the exhibition type anytime.

02

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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Tip

Longer documents work perfectly — but shorter ones give you results faster for your first try.

03

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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Cost

Insight extraction on a 10-page PDF uses roughly 2,000 tokens — about $0.02.

04

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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05

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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Tip

Essay Coaching never writes for you — it asks questions that strengthen your argument.

Next steps

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Insight Extraction

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

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Connection Mapping

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Discover relationships between your materials with interactive graph visualization

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Semantic Search

3 min

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

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Research Synthesis

5 min

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

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Gap Analysis

5 min

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

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Knowledge Graph

5 min

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

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Directed Inquiry

4 min

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

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Research Radar

4 min

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

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