For sponsors

Your name, at the moment of curiosity.

Put your local business in front of every museum visitor who pulls out their phone to ask a question. Your name lands on every AI reply, you get a monthly engagement report, and the museum receives a real donation in your community’s name.

What you get

More than a logo on a wall

For local businesses near a participating museum — realtors, restaurants, banks, attorneys, dental and medical practices, regional retailers — whose customers overlap with that museum’s visitors.

Attribution on every reply

Each AI reply ends with a short line — “Powered by [Your Business Name].” Visitors see your name in the same thread where they just learned something, at the highest-attention moment of their visit.

A monthly engagement report

Emailed PDF: total and unique visitor messages at your museum, top-asked artifacts, an example image, an anonymized example question and reply, and year-to-date totals — ready to report up the chain.

Your logo on the signage

The printed 5×7 tabletop and 8×10 wall signs carry your “Powered by” line and logo. Upload it once in the sponsor portal; it prints and ships automatically when your sponsorship goes live.

A sponsor portal

A simple web page to view reports, edit your footer text within character limits, and manage your subscription. No app to install.

A donation in your name

A portion of your sponsorship is donated to the museum each year, in your business’s name — built-in community goodwill, all reportable.

What a visitor sees

The last thing they read before the next exhibit

A visitor texts a photo and a question, and gets a reply in seconds — with your name on it. The average visitor sends 2–3 messages per visit, so your name appears 2–3 times in a thread that stays in their text history for good.

What it costs

Flat annual rate, no surprises

Annual sponsorship
Flat annual rate, paid once per year via Stripe. Negotiated per partnership based on the museum’s traffic and what works for your business — email us to talk it through.
Setup fee
None.
Per-message cost
None — visitor traffic is unlimited within the museum’s daily safety budget.
Monthly cap
None — pricing is flat annual, so a busy month doesn’t change your invoice.
Cancellation
Cancel anytime, refunded prorated. The footer attribution drops at the end of the current billing period.
The fine print, up front

Where we draw the line

What we won’t share

Sponsor reports never include raw phone numbers, raw message text, visitor photos, or any personally identifiable information. Example questions are anonymized via our standard pipeline (see the Privacy Policy) before inclusion. This is a hard limit, enforceable as a binding obligation in our museum agreement — you get aggregate, de-identified marketing data, not visitor data.

Content fit

The museum has approval rights over which brand appears in its visitors’ inbox, and Authos LLC may decline a reasonably objectionable sponsorship. Adult-content businesses, firearms retailers, gambling operators, and political campaigns are categorically not accepted. Edge cases are decided in writing in advance, never after a contract is signed.

How to become a sponsor

Three steps to live

1

Pick your museum

Choose from the directory. Each card opens a per-museum signup page with the museum’s name and the Stripe Pricing Table for that partnership.

2

Add your details and footer copy

Enter your business name, the short footer line you’d like visitors to see, and your logo for the printed signage. The museum reviews and approves any visitor-facing branding before it goes live.

3

Pay your first year

Check out via the embedded Stripe Checkout. Footer attribution goes live within one business day, signage with your logo ships to the museum, and your first engagement report arrives about 30 days later.

Reserve your museum.

We’re in pilot with the Grovetown Museum (Grovetown, GA). Sponsorship slots for Grovetown and the next two confirmed onboardings are open now — one sponsor per museum.

Authos LLC is a Georgia limited liability company. Text the Past is a product of Authos LLC. All sponsorship contracts are with Authos LLC. Stripe billing is processed by Authos LLC; your card statement may show “Text the Past.”