Conversational AI concierge · web widget & dashboard · 2026
On view
Small institutions answer the same fifty questions forever — hours, parking, bus loops, chaperone ratios, mansion rentals. Docent answers instantly from your institution's own knowledge, around the clock, and turns every school-trip and event inquiry into one organized request in a staff dashboard.
Try asking Ada, the Bakken's concierge
- I want to bring 60 fourth-graders in May — where do buses park?”
- Can I get married at the mansion?”
- Is the museum wheelchair accessible?”
Self-serve booking engine · embeddable widget · 2026
In the studio
Teachers book field trips the way they book everything else: themselves, at 9pm. Real availability, per-slot capacity, chaperone math, lunch plans, special-needs notes — confirmed with a code, embeddable on any museum site as one line of HTML. Its final form is inside Docent: a teacher says “sometime in May, 60 kids,” and the date gets held.
Built to know things like
- The Bell needs 14 days notice and 1 adult per 8 students.”
- Tuesday mornings are full through April — here are three open Thursdays.”
Conversational historical character · expressions, scenes & voice · 2025, rebuilt 2026
On view
Built for The Bakken's Frankenstein's Laboratory: a Mary Shelley who answers anything — from her monster, through the galvanism of her century, to Earl Bakken's pacemaker and the AI questions kids ask today. Her expression and scene shift with the conversation, and the museum sees every question young visitors actually ask.
Try asking Mary
- How is electricity connected to your story?”
- What would you think of pacemakers?”
- Should we be scared of the things we invent?”
Drawing-to-character AI · vision-guided quests · 2026
In the studio
A child draws a character on paper. One photo later it's alive — in yarn, felt, watercolor, or full animated style — and it becomes their museum guide: it sets a challenge, the child runs off to explore, and when they return with a photo, their character sees it and sends them deeper. QR codes at exhibits summon it with that exhibit's secrets.
A quest sounds like
- Whoa, you found the giant magnet! Now — can you find something electricity travels through?”
AI-personalized merchandise · print-on-demand · revenue share · 2026
In the studio
Kids build a character — or star as themselves — inside the museum's own worlds: running Frankenstein's lab, flying Franklin's kite, inventing the future. The artwork prints onto shirts, posters, and mugs, fulfilled automatically, no inventory, with a revenue share back to the institution.
Scenes built for The Bakken
- Young Inventor · Electricity Pioneer · Frankenstein's Lab · Medical Innovator”