A visitor walks up to a bronze, a painting, a fossil — and taps the small mark beside the label. The exhibit itself speaks, answers, and remembers. In the phone's browser. No download, no audio wand, no headset at the coat check.
Tap · scan · walk up — it opens in the browser
Sixty-six million years old — and as of this morning, finally taking questions.
Three moments, every single day, in every gallery. Each one ends with a shrug — or it ends with a conversation.
Waypoints puts a quiet mark beside every label — and each of these moments becomes the exhibit answering for itself.
Once a Waypoint stands beside the label, the object stops being something visitors read about — it becomes something they talk with.
Every answer is drawn from the museum's own records — the curatorial file, the conservation notes, the docent script. If it isn't in your files, the exhibit says so. Never a generic web guess standing in front of your collection.
Provenance: your documents, verbatimA warm AI voice reads each stop aloud — the story, not the placard. A family from São Paulo hears it in Portuguese; the school group from Houston gets the kids' cut. No headsets to sanitize, no wands to charge.
Audio guide · retired the hardwareScavenger hunts across the wings, a collectible stamp for each gallery, badges that pull a nine-year-old past the hall they'd have skipped. The last room gets seen because the collection isn't complete without it.
Stamp art drafted by the StudioA self-guided themed tour, the curator's own commentary, the neighborhood history walk, a kids' explorer quest — surfaced on the same screen, right when the visitor is most in love with the place. Not in a follow-up email three days after the feeling faded.
Development office · new best friendNew loan in Gallery III? Edit the stop once and it's live at the frame in seconds — label, narration, quiz, stamp, every language. The printer never hears about it.
Updates · instant, building-wideEvery docent has answered it a thousand times. Now the mosasaur answers for itself.
The visitor doesn't open an app. They tap the small mark on the rail, the stop opens in their browser, and they ask — out loud or typed. The answer comes back from the specimen's own file: the mounting notes, the field record, the conservation log your team already wrote.
The honest machine: if the answer isn't in the museum's documents, the exhibit says exactly that — and offers what it does know. Your curators stay the only authority in the building.
Drafted from your documents · answered at the rail
Four steps. Your team reviews everything before a single visitor sees it — the Studio drafts, the curator approves.
Upload what you already have — the collection catalog, curatorial files, docent scripts, old exhibition text. PDFs, docs, spreadsheets — as they are.
AI drafts every stop from your documents: the wall label, the spoken narration, a quiz for the school groups, and collectible stamp art for each gallery.
Print-ready QR placards and NFC tags, one beside each exhibit. Frame-worthy files included — they belong on your walls, not stuck to them.
Doors open. Visitors walk up, tap, and the collection starts talking — answering, narrating, guiding the tour — while your team watches it live.
Plate III · The collection, after hours · still on duty
The stamp collection pulls visitors through to the last room. The far wing stops being the quiet wing — it's the one stamp still missing from the set.
The story happens in front of the bronze, at the height of the feeling — not in an email a week later. The next stop points at the wing the visitor just fell for.
A loan arrives, a date gets corrected, a specimen rotates out — edit the stop once and every phone in the building has it. Nothing waits on the printer.
Every plan opens with 14 days free on one gallery. Grow to the whole building when the stamps start moving people.
One gallery, fully alive.
The whole building, talking.
Every wing, every block, no ceilings.
A professional museum deployment typically runs $1,500–$3,000/month — audio guides, translation and self-guided tours in one.
Multiple venues, unlimited waypoints, more editors, and higher visitor volume.
More venues, higher usage limits, and more editors and analytics.
Unlimited venues, the highest visitor and usage limits, and priority processing.
Annual admission: two months free on any plan · cancel anytime
No — and they never will. A visitor scans the QR code, taps the NFC mark, or follows a link, and the stop opens instantly in the phone's browser. Nothing to install, no account to create, no storage to free up in front of the fossil.
Only from the documents your museum uploads — curatorial files, catalog records, conservation notes, docent scripts. The AI answers from your material and cites it. If something isn't in your files, the exhibit says so honestly rather than guessing from the open web.
Edit the stop once in the Studio and it's live at the frame in seconds — the label, the narration, the quiz, the stamp, every translation. No reprinted wall labels, no stickers over old dates, no waiting on the sign shop.
Yes. Narration and answers switch to the visitor's language with one tap — the same story, the same sources, in Spanish, Mandarin, Portuguese, French, and dozens more. One catalogue, every audience.
Upload one gallery's files today. Walk your own halls tomorrow and ask the bronze how it got here.
14 days free · no card · nothing to install for your visitors, ever
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