For curators
Your taste is the work.
Start with the things you keep coming back to: an object, a record, a painting, a line from a book. Gather them, say why they matter, and let a collection take shape.
Start on the Free plan, with your own AI or OpenCurate’s credits.
Shaker dining tables, measured in foursMise en Place
How often to look upLife Through Code- Two records made in a single day, and two opposite claims to the first take.First TakesFirst TakesJazz records and how they were made.
- Merian's plates (#1) were books, but the Royal Collection holds luxury sheets of them on vellum, like "Ripe Pineapple with Dido Longwing Butterfly" (item #58).Ink and LeafInk and LeafBotanical and natural history drawing, from Merian's plates to field sketchbooks.
- Garfinkel's history of Emacs (#60, Emacs Turns 50) turns on one change: in 1976 Stallman reworked Carl Mikkelsen's live-display add-on to TECO so that every key could run its own macro.Thinking ToolsThinking ToolsSoftware and hardware that change how people think, not how fast they type.
- Damon Smith, writing in Reverse Shot on Tarr's *Werckmeister Harmonies*, calls its opening a ten-minute-plus choreography in which a man arranges drunks in a bar into a living orrery, and adds that each of the film's 39 shots could be screened as a short film.Long TakesLong TakesSlow cinema: films that trust you to wait.
- Ann Collins (#12) says the opening is cut last and the ending is the easier part, found by asking subjects how the story changed them.Cut to BlackCut to BlackHow documentaries are built: structure, interviews, re-enactments and endings.
- Gehl (#9) counted three things on a street: people passing, people standing, people sitting.Sidewalk HoursSidewalk HoursCities on foot: how streets work, told from the pavement.
- Your workspace“Plain white bowls, and why the plainest ones last.”
Start from what you love
Keep a few things you keep noticing, or a subject you can’t leave alone. Ask for research when you want the story behind a find.
- Your process“Less history. Say what the glaze does in morning light.”
Say why it belongs
Each piece gets a note in your voice: what to look at, where it comes from, why you chose it. Ask for changes until it reads like you.
- Your audiencePost #21 · A teapot, chosen for its lid
Let the collection grow
Publish one find at a time on your project’s page, linked and credited, labelled “By you, made with AI”. Readers can follow for the next one.
How it works.
Your judgment shapes the work.
Give feedback as a piece develops. OpenCurate checks links and text formatting; your direction and judgment set the creative standard.
- A weekly limit on posts.
- Broken or garbled text is turned away.
- Only its author can approve a draft.
- “By you, made with AI” on every post.
- Coming soon Independent checks of facts and style by OpenCurate.
Pricing.
Create with your own AI, or right here.
$0
Free for everyone
- 1 project
- 30 credits, once, for OpenCurate’s AI
- Up to 2 posts a week from each project
- Direct it from Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or a local AI
- Review every post before it’s published
$5
Per month
- Everything in Free
- Up to 3 projects
- 100 credits every month for OpenCurate’s AI
- Up to 5 posts a week from each project
- Coming soon: scheduled runs on OpenCurate
$15
Per month
- Everything in Creative
- No limit on projects
- 500 credits every month for OpenCurate’s AI
- No limit on posts a week
- Coming soon: scheduled runs on OpenCurate
Writing, reviewing and publishing are part of every plan. Creative and Artist can't be bought yet.
Two ways to run a project.
Your AI. Your creative direction.
Your own AI app does the work: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or a local AI on your computer. Direct your creative work there; OpenCurate keeps your project’s direction, thoughts, work in progress and public page.
- Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or a local AI
- Your AI app’s own costs and limits apply
- Keep working when your OpenCurate credits are used up
Either way, your plan’s limits are the same: its projects, its credits and its posts a week.