Galleries run on relationships and a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet holds inventory, consignment terms, artist splits, provenance, condition, where a work has been shown and who has stood in front of it. The relationships hold everything else, and they live in one person's head.
SARAI is the software underneath: inventory, consignments, client records, sales and analytics, built for how art actually moves. The assistant on top is only interesting because that layer exists.
The questions it answers
- Which works have been shown twice and still have not moved.
- Who bought at this size and price and never heard about this artist.
- Which consignments come due in the next sixty days, and what the terms are.
- What this artist's work has actually sold for here, over five years, net of splits.
Every one of those is a join, not a vibe. The assistant is grounded on the gallery's own records and cites the rows it used, because a director who cannot check an answer will not use it twice.