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COLLECTOR INTELLIGENCE / FOR CONNOISSEURSHIP & COLLECTING

Know every collector.
Surface what they’d
actually love.

By.ai gives galleries, wine merchants, auction houses, watch dealers, and specialty retailers the AI infrastructure to deliver clienteling at the standard their best collectors expect — across every collector, every channel.

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Why this matters

The same piece.
Two very different collectors.

New collector · building a focused contemporary collection

“I want pieces that build a coherent thesis. Not what’s hot. What’s mine.”

Same gallery · Same painting on the wall

Seasoned collector · 30-year pursuit, one piece missing

“I’ve been looking for this specific thing for a long time. I don’t need more options.”

Same gallery · Same painting on the wall

The painting is the wrong answer for one of them. The right one for the other. The problem with most clienteling tech is that it treats collectors like consumers — and shows them what’s popular instead of what’s theirs.

By.ai is built on the opposite premise: that taste is personal, that history compounds, and that the right next acquisition is always the one that fits.

The problem

Personal service
doesn’t scale.
Until now.

Pain 01
That knowledge isn’t institutional.

When your senior advisor retires, leaves, or just goes on vacation, the relationship goes with them. The CRM has the email address. It doesn’t have the taste profile.

Pain 02
Your other clients deserve the same treatment.

The collectors who don’t get the white-glove treatment from your top advisor are the ones whose relationships go cold. Not because they’re less important — because there isn’t a system that knows them.

Pain 03
Discovery is hit-or-miss.

When new inventory comes in, matching it to the right collector is a memory exercise. Pieces sit. Collectors miss the thing they would have loved.

The solution

An AI team that knows every collector
like your top advisor would.

Collector Intelligence brings the four By.ai roles into a single layer across your collector relationships — outreach, discovery, in-gallery conversations, and post-acquisition follow-up.

01

Your Collector Advisor

Built on the By.ai Advisor

Talks to collectors in your brand’s voice — across email, SMS, WhatsApp, and your gallery’s preferred channels — with full context and memory of every previous conversation and acquisition.

02

Your Curator

Built on the By.ai Curator

Scores every piece in your inventory against the collector asking — with the same eye your senior advisor would bring. Surfaces the pieces that fit. Skips the ones that don’t.

03

Your Persona Designer

Built on the By.ai Persona Designer

Builds a living understanding of every collector — their collection, taste, history with your gallery, unspoken pursuits — into a profile that compounds with every interaction.

04

Your Researcher

Built on the By.ai Researcher

Reads the market, artist news, auction results, editorial coverage — and synthesizes the context that turns an acquisition recommendation into a real case.

An example

A collector relationship,
end to end.

New inventory arrives

Scores against every collector.

A piece comes in. Your Curator scores it against every collector in your database, surfaces the three or four for whom it’s a real match, and explains why for each. Your senior advisor reviews in seconds and decides who to reach out to first.

Personal outreach

A thoughtful note, in your voice.

Your Collector Advisor drafts the outreach — in your gallery’s voice, with the specific reasoning that makes it feel like a thoughtful note, not a blast. Your advisor reviews, edits, sends.

Ongoing relationship

A curator on call.

A collector asks: “anything new I should know about?” Your Researcher pulls relevant market context, recent acquisitions in their taste, editorial coverage they’d care about. Your Collector Advisor delivers it as a curated note.

Who we build with

For galleries and merchants who compete on relationships.

Collector Intelligence is built for galleries, auction houses, wine merchants, fine watch and jewelry dealers, rare book sellers, and specialty retailers where the long-term collector relationship is the product. If your team is delivering thoughtful, personal clienteling to your best collectors and looking for the infrastructure to extend that quality across your full client list — we should talk.

Let’s build your
Collector Intelligence layer.