A workspace
built for advisors.
Not a marketplace bolt-on.
If you advise collectors professionally, Ateliera is the tool you haven’t had: clients, projects, recommendation boards with real commentary, and attribution tracking that ensures you get credit when a client buys.
Vetted.
Not automatic.
Advisor status on Ateliera isn’t granted on signup. We review every applicant because collectors asking for an advisor deserve actual expertise — not someone who checked a box.
- —Credentials. Gallery experience, curatorial work, art history background, or a meaningful track record placing works with collectors.
- —References. Two or three collectors or institutions who can vouch for your work. We contact them.
- —A point of view. We want advisors with taste, not just procurement skills. Tell us what you’re interested in and why.
- —Availability. You don’t need to work full-time as an advisor. You do need to respond to clients within a few days — not weeks.
Review takes up to two weeks while we contact your references. If you’re accepted, we onboard you personally — a call with our curatorial team to walk through how the platform works and what’s expected.
Your book,
organized.
Each client on your dashboard has a profile — their taste, their budget, the spaces they’re buying for, their collection to date, and a history of everything you’ve shown them. Nothing gets lost between conversations.
If you already have clients, invite them to Ateliera through your dashboard. They create a collector account linked to you — so any purchase they make through your recommendations credits you automatically.
Collectors who submit advisory briefs get matched with advisors on our roster. When you’re the right fit — by region, specialty, budget, style — we route them to you with a brief and introduction.
Each engagement with a client is a project — a specific brief, budget, timeline. Projects organize your recommendations, notes, and outstanding tasks.
Every piece a client views through a recommendation you built is tracked. If they buy within your engagement window, you earn the advisor commission — whether they bought the exact piece you showed them or a different one by the same artist.
Three panes.
One board.
The recommendation builder is the center of your workflow. A three-pane workspace: board metadata on the left, the pieces you’ve selected in the middle, and a searchable view of the full catalog on the right.
Simplified preview. The real tool includes bulk actions, saved search filters, note templates, and client activity tracking.
- 01You build the board, add your curatorial notes per piece, and preview it the way your client will see it.
- 02Send it to the client — as a link (no login required if they’re new) or through your client’s connected account.
- 03Track engagement. See when the client opened the board, which pieces they spent time with, what they wished-listed, what they dismissed.
- 04Follow up. The platform won’t do your job for you — but the data helps you have a better next conversation.
A clean 15%.
On what you close.
The advisor commission is fifteen percent of the artwork sale price, automatically allocated out of the platform’s cut. It doesn’t come out of the artist’s share, and it isn’t added on top of the client’s price. It’s clean for everyone.
When an advisor closes a sale, the platform’s share drops from 30% to 20%, and the advisor takes 15% — the artist’s 65% is unchanged. For sales outside advisor engagements, the standard artist/platform split applies.
- —Commission is credited to your balance once escrow releases to the artist — same moment the artist gets paid.
- —Payouts run weekly on business days. Bank transfers settle in 2-5 business days depending on your region.
- —If a sale is disputed and refunded, the commission is reversed along with the sale. This is rare — fewer than 2% of completed sales are disputed — but it’s how we keep the incentives aligned.
- —You’re responsible for your own tax obligations. We provide year-end statements.