Self-guided
Hall of Dinosaurs
A route through deep time — each mounted skeleton narrates its own age, its dig site, and how it moved. Children collect a fossil stamp at every giant.
Museums & Culture
The wall label a visitor can hear, question, and carry home.
Waypoints Studio turns your galleries into a self-guided tour on the visitor's own phone. Every stop narrates itself, answers questions from your records, and leaves a collectible stamp — and you update any placard in seconds, not a print cycle.
Now on view
A living label for every object — scan, listen, ask, collect.
Exhibit I — The Process
Three steps from your archive to the visitor's hand.
You already hold the wall text, the catalog entries, the docent scripts. Waypoints reads them and drafts the tour — you curate, then publish.
01— Upload
Give it what you have
Drop in exhibit labels, catalog PDFs, a floor plan, docent notes, or a folder of photographs. No new writing required to start.
02— Draft
The tour drafts itself
Waypoints proposes the stops, writes each placard, drafts the narration, generates a short quiz, and designs a stamp for every object. You review and refine.
03— Anchor
Publish to the floor
Anchor each stop to a QR label, an NFC tag, a tap on the map, or a GPS zone. Visitors scan and the gallery starts talking — in forty-plus languages.
Exhibit II — The Collection
Six placards, mounted on the wall.
Each card is a capability — catalogued the way the rest of your gallery is.
No. 01 · Interpretation
Dynamic digital placards
The label that keeps up with the scholarship. Change an attribution, a date, a provenance line — it is live the moment you save. No reprint, no vinyl, no twenty-year-old typo on the wall.
Medium — Editable text, audio & image, per object
No. 02 · Access
A built-in audio guide
Every stop narrates itself in a natural voice — no rented handsets to clean, charge, and lose. Visitors press play on the phone already in their pocket and walk at their own pace.
Medium — Generated narration, 40+ languages
No. 03 · Engagement
Ask this exhibit
Visitors type a question and the object answers — drawing only on your catalog and curatorial notes, never a generic web guess. The docent's knowledge, available at every piece, all day.
Medium — Grounded Q&A from your own records
No. 04 · Return visits
Collectible exhibit stamps
Each stop issues a unique stamp to the visitor's collection. Empty slots pull people deeper into the galleries — the far room finally gets its crowd, and families come back to complete the set.
Medium — One designed stamp per object
No. 05 · Reach
One tour, forty languages
Publish once and open the whole experience — labels, narration, questions — in the visitor's language with a tap. Tour groups and international guests read the same wall in their own words.
Medium — Instant translation, 40+ languages
No. 06 · Insight
See which rooms hold attention
The dashboard shows which stops visitors reach, how long they linger, and where a route stalls. Evidence for the next reinstall — and for the grant report.
Medium — Visit analytics, exportableExhibit III — Featured
Printed label
Attributed to workshop of the master. c. 1480. Tempera on panel.
Waypoints placard
Reattributed to the master's own hand after 2024 infrared study. c. 1478. Tempera and gold on panel.
New scholarship shouldn't wait for a reprint.
A physical label is fixed the day it is mounted. A Waypoints placard is not. Update the attribution, add the conservation story, correct a date — the wall is current the second you save, across every language, at no cost.
Ask this exhibit
What pigment gives the blue in the robe?
The exhibit: The deep blue is natural ultramarine, ground from lapis lazuli imported through Venice — costlier than gold at the time, which is why the patron reserved it for the Virgin's mantle. Our 2024 analysis confirmed traces of the original binder.
Exhibit IV — Now Showing
Three tours, the shape of a real visit.
Each one drafted from materials a museum already owns — then curated and published.
Audio walk
Impressionist Wing Audio Walk
Stand before each canvas and hear how the light was caught — brushwork, weather, the hour of day. Ask the painting what you like; it answers from the catalog.
Story trail
Founders' Gallery Story Trail
A narrative route through the people who built the collection — portraits, letters, and objects tied into one story, with a quiz that earns a founder's seal at the end.
Exhibit V — Behind the Glass
The tools, framed and on view.
Not a mockup — the actual studio you build in, and the tour a visitor holds.
The Studio
Build stops, narration & stamps · waypointsstudio.com/app
The Visit
What the guest carries · waypointsstudio.com/tour
- Opens in the browser — nothing to install.
- Your logo, colors and type — not ours.
Exhibit VI — The Passport
Every object earns a stamp.
The visitor fills a collection as they walk. The gaps are the reason they finish the floor — and the reason they come back.
7 of 12 collected — five galleries still to discover.
Exhibit VII — Admission
Plans that scale with the building.
Start free on a single gallery. Move up when the whole institution is on the floor.
Free
$0
A single small tour, to feel how it works on your own wall.
- 1 tour, up to 5 stops
- AI-drafted labels & stamp art
- QR & tap triggers
Starter
$79 /mo
One gallery or a seasonal exhibition, fully self-guided.
- 1 active tour, up to 15 stops
- Audio guide & ask-the-exhibit
- Your branding, NFC & GPS
Pro
$249 /mo
The whole institution — multiple wings, languages, analytics.
- Unlimited tours & stops
- 40+ languages & visit analytics
- Quizzes, seals & team seats
Enterprise
Let's talk
Multi-site systems, SSO, and bespoke integrations.
- Multiple venues & collections
- SSO, roles & onboarding
- Priority support
Exhibit VIII — Visitor Information
Questions from the front desk.
Q1Do visitors have to download an app?+
No. The tour opens in any phone browser from a QR label, an NFC tap, or a link. Nothing to install, nothing to update, no store review.
Q2Where does the “ask the exhibit” answer come from?+
Only from the materials you upload — catalog entries, wall text, curatorial notes. It answers within your scholarship and declines to guess beyond it, so what visitors read is what your museum stands behind.
Q3How hard is it to update a placard?+
Edit the text in the studio and save. It is live immediately, in every language, at no cost — the same effort as changing a caption in a document.
Q4Can it match our brand and existing signage?+
Yes. Your logo, colors, and typeface carry through the whole experience. The stamps and placards are designed to sit beside your printed graphics, not fight them.
Q5What about galleries with no signal?+
Stops can be anchored by QR or NFC tags that work without GPS, and content is built to load quickly. For deep basements we can advise on tags and lightweight media so the tour holds up.
Q6Can we see who visited and what they reached?+
On Pro, the dashboard shows stops reached, time spent, quiz results, and completion. Export it for board packets and grant reporting.
Turn the next gallery into a tour that talks back.
Upload what you already have and see the first stops draft themselves. Free to start — no card, no install, no reprint.