FOR CURATORS

A modern audio guide
without becoming a software project.

You shouldn’t need a development team to give your visitors a great tour. We do this with you, in two weeks, using materials you already have. Read on for the actual timeline, what we ask of your team, and what it costs.

14 days
From kickoff to a tour your visitors can use.
~6 hours
Of curator time, total. Spread over two weeks.
3 languages
Pilot scope. Full ten available on Studio and Global.
$0 to start
Pilot the first gallery free. Pay only if it works.
WHAT TWO WEEKS LOOKS LIKE

An actual day-by-day, the way we do this with everyone.

DAY 1
CONVO
Kickoff (60 min)
You walk us through one gallery. We agree on five to twelve stops. You hand over the source materials you already have.
DAY 2–4
CONVO
First drafts
We draft each stop in a voice that matches one of your existing tours. Pre-translated into your top three languages.
DAY 5
YOU
Curator read-through
You and one or two colleagues read every stop. Mark anything you’d say differently. Most stops need 1–2 small edits.
DAY 6–8
CONVO
Refine in chat
You sit with the studio for an hour. We rewrite live in chat: shorter, longer, softer, drop a paragraph, lead with the back of the sculpture.
DAY 9
CONVO
Voice + translation pass
We render the audio in every language with the voice you picked. You preview every stop.
DAY 10
BOTH
Soft launch on the floor
A QR code at the gallery entrance. Staff and a handful of members try it. We watch the analytics, you read the live transcripts.
DAY 11–13
CONVO
Two rounds of polish
Tweak based on what visitors actually did. Rewrite the two stops nobody finished. Strengthen the question the guide kept declining.
DAY 14
YOU
Public launch
You publish to your site, put up the QR card, and we go quiet — but stay on call. The tour keeps improving as you edit.
WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU

Just enough.
Nothing exotic.

We’ve designed this to fit inside a curator’s existing week. No special hardware, no studio bookings, no procurement form. If you can find these in a Dropbox folder, you can ship.

ONE GALLERY TO START
Permanent or temporary. Pick the room you most want visitors to slow down in.
SOURCE MATERIALS
Wall cards (PDF/Word fine), catalog entries, exhibition essays, any scholarly articles you cite.
A VOICE SAMPLE
30 minutes of an existing tour or a curator reading aloud. We match the cadence.
TWO REVIEWERS
A curator and an editor. They each spend 2–3 hours over two weeks.
HOW WE START

One gallery,
fully free,
fourteen days.

Most institutions don’t want to make a software decision before seeing the thing work in their building. So we don’t ask them to.

Pick a gallery. We deliver a working multilingual tour in two weeks, fully built, on the floor, on your visitors’ phones. If it lands, you renew. If it doesn’t, you keep everything we made — scripts, audio, transcripts — and we shake hands.

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WHAT’S INCLUDED
’A working tour, 5–12 stops, in three languages of your choice
’Authoring studio access for two curators
’QR onboarding card and a printable preview poster
’Live analytics during the pilot week
’Two refinement rounds based on visitor data
’Transcripts and audio exported in plain formats
’Direct line to Eric, the founder
$0
BOOK A CURATOR CALL

Thirty minutes.
Bring one gallery.

Walk me through a gallery you wish had a better tour. I’ll tell you whether Convo is a fit. If yes, we agree on a pilot date there and then. If not, I’ll point you somewhere better.

On the call: just me. No slide deck, no pricing pitch — a real conversation about what your visitors should leave with.

FROM THE FOUNDER
If your collection has something to say, I’d like to hear what it is. Bring one gallery and thirty minutes — we’ll know by the end if it’s a fit.
Eric Duffy
Founder, Convo
QUESTIONS WE GET

What curators ask first.

No rip-and-replace. Most institutions run Convo in one gallery alongside their existing tour for a quarter or two. If visitors prefer it, expand from there. If not, you’ve only changed one room.
The visitor guide answers only from materials you’ve uploaded. It doesn’t pull from the open internet, and it declines when it can’t ground an answer. Every interaction is logged in the admin so you can review what visitors are asking and how the guide responded — and adjust the source materials when something feels off.
Per gallery, per month. The pilot is free. After that, most institutions land on Studio for a single gallery and Global for institution-wide rollouts. Full pricing is on the pricing page.
Yes — that’s the whole point. You keep everything we made — scripts, audio, transcripts — and we shake hands. The free pilot exists so you don’t have to make a software decision before seeing the thing work in your building.
You do. Your reference materials, your scripts, your audio, your visitor analytics. We don’t train models on your content and we don’t share it with other institutions. You can export everything in plain formats any time.
A browser. They scan a QR code at the entrance and the tour opens in their phone’s browser — no app download, no account. Works on iOS and Android equally.
STILL READING?

The shortest path is a thirty-minute call.