For Museums

Know what your top patrons actually care about.

Offer Egon to your Council, Founding Members, or Young Patrons as a benefit of membership. Get back aggregate intelligence on what they’re researching — the kind of insight no other tool gives you.

Your Council renewed last year. You can’t tell the board why.

Tessitura tells you who paid. Surveys tell you what they say they care about. Neither tells you what they’re actually researching, what’s rising in their attention, or where their interests diverge from the broader collector population. The intelligence you need for board defense doesn’t exist — until now.

In nonprofit fundraising, the top 20% of donors typically drive 80% of giving — and in modern major-gift programs, closer to 90% comes from the top 10%.

Renewing them depends on showing the program works — with evidence stronger than attendance counts.

Aggregate insight into what your top tier cares about is renewal-defensible. Activity counts aren’t.

Industry-standard Pareto principle in fundraising (Giving USA; CCS Fundraising).


Offer it. Patrons engage. You see the pattern.

1

Offer the Benefit

Your colors, logo, voice. Patrons activate as part of their membership tier — no separate signup, no separate billing. They feel they’ve been given something substantive by you.

2

Patrons Engage

A serious research tool for collectors who want depth. Conversational chatbot. Real auction data. Photo recognition at fairs and viewings.

3

You See the Pattern

Daily-computed cohort intelligence. Trending and declining artists. Where your patrons’ interests diverge from broader collectors. Upload your permanent collection and see which artists your top patrons are researching that you don’t already own. Board-ready quarterly reports in one click.


For your next board meeting.

Q1 Patron Cohort — Sample Output

Cecily Brown, Julie Mehretu, and Christina Quarles led your Council’s research this quarter — with Salman Toor and Tschabalala Self rising fast.

Council interest in contemporary figurative painting runs 18% above the broader collector population.

Generated quarterly. Aggregate-only. The kind of detail that turns a board renewal conversation into a strategy conversation.


From attendance counts to actual interest.

Without Egon
With Egon
"Our Council was 81% active this year"
"Our Council researched these 12 artists, with these 4 trending up"
Surveys with 12% response rate and stated preferences
Passive observation of real research behavior across the cohort
Branded events you can’t track impact on
A members-only digital benefit with measurable engagement
Curators worry about AI overreach
Curators stay authoritative — intelligence flows to your development team only

Will this compete with our curators?

No. Egon doesn’t write exhibition copy, recommend acquisitions, or produce curatorial scholarship. The intelligence flows to your development team. Curatorial decisions stay with your curators.

What happens to patron data?

Aggregate-only. We never identify individual patrons in any view or report — minimum cohort size enforced in code, not policy. Patrons cannot be re-identified, by design.

Can the patron experience be branded as ours?

Yes. Your colors and logo override the patron UI chrome, your patron landing page is yours to write (hero image, mission text, CTA), onboarding emails carry your signature and footer. Patrons experience Egon as a benefit from your museum.

How is pricing structured?

An annual fee scaled to cohort size and patron tier. We’ll quote based on your program — try the demo, then let’s talk specifics.


Walk through it from your director’s seat.

The demo lets you explore the museum portal with sample data — cohort taste intelligence, programming resonance, the board-ready quarterly report.