AI automation for art dealers and galleries
Placing the right work with the right collector, and the relationships and eye behind it, is the whole job and not something to hand to software.
The scaffolding around it is another story: collector enquiries and follow-up, consignment agreements and provenance files, condition reports, fair logistics and shipping, invoicing and artist statements. ellul.ai builds private AI systems that run that scaffolding for you.
The eye, the placement and the collector relationship stay yours. Enquiries, paperwork and logistics are what we automate.
The scaffolding behind every placement
- Collector enquiries qualified and answered by hand across time zones
- Consignment agreements and provenance files assembled document by document
- Condition reports and certificates chased for every work
- Fair logistics, shipping and customs coordinated over long email chains
- Invoices and artist statements raised late because the paperwork lagged
- Follow-up on past enquiries happening only when the week allows
What we automate
Enquiries qualified before you read them
Collector enquiries answered, qualified and routed automatically, so your day starts with the serious buyers.
Provenance and paperwork on rails
Consignment agreements, provenance files and condition reports assembled from your templates and tracked to signature automatically.
Fairs without the email chains
Shipping, customs and fair logistics coordinated and chased automatically, with a live view of where every work is.
Each of these maps to the studio's core services: workflow automation, agents and operators, and front desk AI, scoped to your firm.
Engineered, not improvised
You own it
Real, versioned, monitored software on accounts you control, with full IP assignment. Not a no-code flow rented from a platform.
Guardrails by default
Sandboxing, approval gates and a full audit log ship as standard, built on patent-pending work in AI-agent security.
Measured against a number
Every engagement starts by agreeing the KPI it will move: hours saved, response time, error rate. The pilot proves it before you roll out.
The proof is AI systems running in production today. See the work.
Common questions
Collectors demand discretion. Where does their information live?
On accounts you own with audit logs standard. Collector and sale details are never shared and never used to train anything.
Every deal is bespoke. What is there to automate?
The eye and the placement are yours. The enquiries, provenance paperwork and fair logistics are the same machinery every time, and that machinery is what we remove.
How do we begin?
A free 30-minute consultation with the architect who would build it: which parts of your gallery are worth automating first.
Start with a straight answer
A free 30-minute consultation with the engineer who would build it: what is worth automating for gallery owners and art dealers, what is not, and where to start. Or describe the work and get a written scope and fixed quote within one business day.