An AI historian for every artifact you own.
Visitors text a photo of any exhibit and get an answer in seconds — grounded in your own archive, with broader era and region context filled in when a question goes deeper. No app, no Wi-Fi, and no hallucinating chatbot turned loose on your collection. Funded by a local business sponsor, so it costs the museum nothing.
Everything to run it, nothing to maintain
A dedicated phone number
Visitors text it to ask about any exhibit. Replies come back in seconds, grounded in your archive — and when a question goes past it, the AI stays on your collection’s era and region rather than wandering off.
A simple curator portal
One staff member uploads each artifact’s photo plus the context you want the AI to use. About 30 minutes to seed your starting collection; 2–3 minutes per artifact after that.
A monthly engagement report
Visitor question counts, your most-asked-about artifacts, and the kinds of questions people actually ask — handy for grant reporting and exhibit planning.
An optional sponsor donation
When a local business funds your deployment, a portion of their sponsorship can flow to the museum as a tax-deductible donation. Negotiable per partnership.
Three small things
Space for the signs
Pre-printed framed giclée signs ship to you on activation — a 5×7 textured-art-board tabletop on a handmade-oak stand, and/or an 8×10 aluminium-framed wall print on 3M Command strips (no drilling). You choose where they go and how many of each.
About 30 minutes
One curator’s time to seed the first batch of artifacts in the portal. After that, adding a new artifact takes 2–3 minutes.
One-click Terms
Accept the online Museum Terms during signup — no paper to sign, no countersignature to chase. They cover liability, visitor-data handling, the no-cost guarantee, and the content license. Read them here.
Live in days, not months
Online signup — about 5 minutes
Your museum name, mailing address (for the signs), and one curator email. You accept the Museum Terms with one click. No payment, no card on file.
A quick approval review
We review and approve your museum, usually within a business day. Your curator can start adding artifacts right away; your public sponsor signup link goes live once you’re approved.
Curator onboarding — 30 to 60 minutes
The curator email gets a portal invite within one business day. Your staff uploads the starting artifact set with photos and the historical text you’ve already written.
Live as soon as your first sponsor signs up
A sponsoring local business — or your museum funding it itself — covers your number and signage. Signs ship to your door, the number provisions automatically, and visitors can text the moment you place the signs.
$0
No setup fees, no monthly fees, no per-message fees. The service is funded by a sponsoring local business in exchange for a small “Powered by [Sponsor Name]” line on each reply — and you have approval rights over which brand appears in your visitors’ inbox.
No local sponsor lined up, or prefer not to carry a business name at all? Fund it yourself — from a programs or grant budget, a Friends group, or a donor. A museum-funded deployment carries no attribution: your replies and signs show only your own “Curious? Text:” call to action, with no “Powered by” line.
Built for the realities of running a museum
Visitor data
Phone numbers are HMAC-hashed before any database write. Message text and photos are retained up to 90 days for service quality, then automatically deleted. The sponsor sees only aggregate, de-identified counts — never a number, never the question text.
Carrier compliance
Authos LLC holds A2P 10DLC Brand and Campaign registration with The Campaign Registry and operates as a Customer Care use case — every message is a direct reply to a visitor’s first text. STOP / HELP / unsubscribe are handled by Twilio’s platform-level opt-out and audited.
AI grounding
Specific facts — dates, names, provenance, materials, regiment and battle attributions — come straight from your curators’ text. Broader context is filled in from general historical training but constrained to your collection’s era, region, and subject. You can review and edit any artifact’s text at any time.
Bring an AI historian to your collection.
We’re in pilot with the Grovetown Museum (Grovetown, GA) and accepting a small number of additional partners through 2026 to keep onboarding personal. The signup form takes about 5 minutes, and there’s no card on file at any point.