Artmetria FAQ
Clear answers.
This page is the canonical public FAQ for Artmetria. It explains what the platform is, how its layers fit together, what is already live, what is opening next, and what is free versus paid.
- Understand what Artmetria actually is — Eye and Market
- Clarify what is free and what is paid
- Understand the Index, Market Radar, and Event Intelligence
- Check what is live, opening next, or still directional
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Support space
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Platform and positioning
What is Artmetria?
Artmetria is a house built around two products: Artmetria Eye, a personal way of discovering, understanding and following art over time, and Artmetria Market, a professional environment for researching, analyzing and documenting art-market information. Both draw on a shared foundation — a growing art corpus, a knowledge layer, and AI capabilities. The aim throughout is to make art more legible, through perception, context and evidence.
What is Eye?
Artmetria Eye is Artmetria's personal product. It accompanies a living relationship with art through discovery, understanding, following and personal memory — helping you notice what is worth your attention, understand what you're looking at, and remember what matters to you over time, without ever requiring you to already know what you're looking for.
What is Market?
Artmetria Market is Artmetria's professional product. It turns scattered information about artists, works, lots, transactions and events into traceable signals, context and reusable analysis, so a professional can monitor, investigate, compare, document and prepare a decision — while keeping sight of uncertainty, provenance and their own judgment.
Who is Eye for?
Eye is built for anyone with a personal, ongoing relationship to art — collectors, travelers, museum-goers, and simply curious people — rather than for a professional workflow. It is not a simplified version of Market, and it does not score or label your taste.
Who is Market for?
Market is built primarily for dealers, galleries, art advisors and advanced collectors acting with a professional or well-documented approach, and secondarily for experts, auction specialists, analysts and research teams. It is not designed for the general public seeking personal discovery only, or for purely speculative or automated use.
What makes Artmetria different from a traditional art-content site?
Most art sites either teach, inform, or sell. Artmetria is designed to connect aesthetic understanding, market structure, and applied tools inside one coherent house, through Eye and Market. It is meant to be used progressively: first to sharpen perception, then to structure what matters, then to deepen use through more advanced surfaces.
Is Artmetria a marketplace?
No. Artmetria is not a marketplace and does not position itself as a buying platform. It is an educational and analytical environment designed to make art and its surrounding signals more legible.
Does Artmetria value artworks?
No. Artmetria never issues a definitive valuation. Tools such as the Artmetria Index, comparables, and the evidence behind a case are designed to inform professional judgment and make the reasoning behind a position more visible — not to replace that judgment with a certified value, a guaranteed appreciation, or an authentication.
Does Artmetria provide financial or investment advice?
No. Artmetria is educational and analytical only — it is not a financial advisor, investment advisor, or trading platform, and it never issues investment recommendations or assured investment opportunities. It uses careful language around signals, quality, and market reading to support a professional's own judgment, not to replace it.
Is Artmetria an AI tool?
Not primarily. Artmetria's central promise is a clearer relationship with art and its market; AI is one of several capabilities that support that, alongside a curated corpus, editorial judgment, and human review. Artmetria is designed to be recognizable through the experience itself, not through an "AI-first" positioning.
Index, Radar, and core product logic
What is the Artmetria Index?
The Artmetria Index is an instrument inside Artmetria Market, not a separate product. It reads auction data through Artmetria's qualitative framework to make market movement more legible — trying to interpret the quality of what is moving, not only its price. It is not a valuation, a forecast, or an investment recommendation; it is meant to make professional judgment more informed, not to replace it.
What is the C1–C10 framework?
C1–C10 is the expert reading backbone used inside Artmetria's logic. It structures the assessment of a work through ten criteria such as artist identity, period, execution, subject, composition, condition, provenance, and bibliographic resonance. It helps Artmetria move beyond raw price alone.
What is Market Radar?
Market Radar is a Market capability that ranks and analyzes lots on the market, as part of Market's research workflow (Research → Lots → Analysis). It is distinct from Event Intelligence: Market Radar is about lots and their price and market signals, while Event Intelligence is about art-world events such as fairs, exhibitions and sales. The two are never the same thing, and Market Radar is not a legacy surface being phased out.
What is Event Intelligence?
Event Intelligence is an internal engine that surfaces art-world events — fairs, exhibitions, sale periods, and other important dates — and is meant to distribute them into recommendations, notifications, calendars and artist pages, rather than existing only as a page you visit. It is the intended successor to what is still, today, publicly named Global Radar; that transition is underway but not complete. Event Intelligence is distinct from Market Radar, which analyzes lots rather than events.
Is Global Radar exhaustive?
No. Global Radar (heading toward Event Intelligence, see above) should be understood as a structured and curated signal layer, not as a claim of total exhaustiveness over the entire art world.
Does the Index replace judgment?
No. The purpose of the Index is precisely the opposite: to make judgment more explicit. It gives users a more readable framework, but it does not eliminate the need for discernment, context, and interpretation.
Does missing data mean a negative signal?
No. Missing data is not the same as negative data. It usually indicates incomplete evidence, which should lower confidence and increase caution rather than force a negative conclusion.
What is free, what is paid
What does Artmetria charge for?
Artmetria makes two products. Eye — the personal way of discovering, understanding and following art — is free at its core, and free is the product rather than a trial. Market — the professional environment for researching, analysing and documenting art-market information — is the paid one. They are distinct products for different purposes, not two rungs of one ladder: Market is not a deeper Eye, and Eye is not a sample of Market.
Is there a paid version of Eye?
No. Eye launches free at its core, and no paid Eye tier is offered. A paid layer would only ever be added if a genuinely different capability justified it — never by narrowing the free product to make room for one. Nothing of that kind is planned for the launch.
How much does Market cost?
Market's launch price is not set yet, so it is not published anywhere on this site. Figures that have circulated in earlier plan grids are not the launch offer. When the price is decided it will appear on the access page with its billing period and tax treatment stated plainly, before anything can be bought.
Can I subscribe today?
No. No paid subscription is offered for sale at the moment. Artmetria is preparing to open in October 2026; no exact day is announced, and no date opens payment by itself — opening is a deliberate act. Eye is free to use in the meantime, and current members keep the access they already have.
Does everything described on the site already work?
No, and the site tries to say which is which. Some surfaces are live, some are still opening, and some pages describe direction alongside what exists today. Where a capability is restricted to part of the art field — Market's launch domain is fine art, paintings and drawings — the restriction is stated on the surface itself rather than in a footnote.
What about teams and institutions?
Enterprise is a future direction rather than a launch offer: there is no product to buy, no price and no packaged capability. Both products are individual today. The Enterprise page describes where that stands and nothing more.
AI layer and guided experiences
What is Advisor?
Advisor is Artmetria’s orientation layer. Its role is to help visitors understand the platform, the two products, the surfaces inside them, and the right next step. It is not meant to replace the deeper product experiences themselves.
What is the Aesthetic Profile?
The Aesthetic Profile is Eye's persistent personal context. It quietly gathers what you look at, follow and respond to, and uses it to make discoveries, recommendations and readings more relevant over time. It is not a taste score, a fixed aesthetic identity, or a tool that classifies you. Its content stays inside Eye and is not copied into Market; one Market surface reads coarse labels from it — Taste, Category, Followed, In carnet — to order what it shows you, in the moment, without keeping anything on Market's side.
What is the difference between Advisor and the Aesthetic Profile?
Advisor explains and orients — it helps you understand the platform and your next step. The Aesthetic Profile is different: it is Eye's ongoing personal context, built from what you engage with over time, not a one-off reading or a fixed result. They belong to the same ecosystem, but they are not the same product.
What AI tools are already live or opening next?
The AI layer is available today: Advisor and the Aesthetic Profile as entry points into Eye, and inside Market, Semantic Search across the corpus and lots, with per-lot visual reasoning available in beta. Further layers keep deepening over time, but these exist now rather than on a roadmap.
What is Reading Room today?
Reading Room is a cautious preliminary reading layer — a structured first read, not authentication, valuation, condition reporting, or buying/selling advice. It is part of Eye's free core; the deeper professional reading, with comparison and export, belongs to Market.
Currently covers painting and drawing, with sculpture in provisional coverage.
Do the AI tools try to replace expertise?
No. Artmetria’s AI layer is built to support orientation, structure, and deeper reading. It is designed to clarify and extend judgment, not to simulate omniscience or replace expertise with generic automation.
Current scope, support, and product maturity
Are all Artmetria layers fully complete?
No. Artmetria is already usable in key areas, but some layers are still evolving. The public site reflects both the current product and the intended architecture of the platform.
What are Artmetria's limitations?
Artmetria is already usable in real ways, but it is not complete or exhaustive. Signals, scores and rankings are aids to judgment, not certainties: Artmetria never guarantees appreciation, certain prediction, automatic expertise, definitive valuation, certified authenticity, or guaranteed undervaluation. Corpus and market coverage are broad but not total, and some pages describe direction alongside what is already live. Where the evidence is insufficient, the honest answer is that it is insufficient.
How should I read pages that mention features not fully open yet?
They should be read as part of the canonical product structure. Some features are live, some are opening next, and some are directional. The intention is to make the platform legible without pretending every layer is equally mature today.
Where should I go if I have a bug or support issue?
You can use the support surfaces linked from this page, including Known Issues, bug reporting, and the support area itself. Advisor is also useful when the problem is really a question of orientation rather than a bug.
Can I add Global Radar events to my calendar?
Where the relevant actions are enabled, Global Radar can expose calendar-friendly outputs such as per-event ICS export. Fuller calendar integration, and distribution into recommendations, notifications and artist pages — the direction described for Event Intelligence — is not yet implemented; availability depends on the page and current release state.
Still unsure where to begin?
Advisor is the fastest way to clarify a product, a surface inside it, or the difference between what is already live and what is still opening.