We have created
the world's first
AI model
that truly
understands art.
Because we believe art is one of humanity's most precious treasures.
ArtGuard
The Complete Art Protection Ecosystem
ArtGuard is the first holistic art security system, integrating authentication, tracking, and environmental protection into one unified platform. Our technology combines AI-powered fingerprinting, NFC tags, blockchain permanence, GPS tracking, and climate sensors to protect artwork throughout its journey. Complete protection, seamless experience, verified trust.
Art market challenges
What Problems Do We Solve?
The art market faces critical challenges that undermine trust, inflate costs, and create barriers to trade. ArtGuard provides comprehensive solutions to these fundamental problems.
Three Critical Market Problems:
Trust in Private Sales
Buyers lack tools to verify authenticity, creating hesitation and fraud vulnerability.
High Insurance Costs
Uncertainty inflates premiums and limits coverage for collectors.
Slow Auction Authentication
Traditional verification is time-consuming, expensive, and creates market bottlenecks.
How ArtGuard Solves These Problems:
Guaranteed Authenticity
Triple-layer protection (NFC + AI) eliminates doubt in private transactions
Lower Insurance Costs
Verified authenticity reduces risk for insurers and collectors alike
7-Second Verification
Near-zero cost authentication for auction houses and galleries worldwide
For Artists
Protect Your Legacy, Prove Your Originality
Triple-layer protection (Tag + AI) stored on the blockchain, ensuring your work is shielded from copying or unauthorized use. Your creation will forever remain the one and only original.
With ArtGuard's NFC Tag, anyone can instantly access the data you embed: artist's name, year of creation, title, or description. A digital signature that will always accompany your work.
For Collectors, Galleries, Auction Markets and Museums
Secure Your Investment, Accelerate Your Sales
We are building a global ecosystem for certifying the authenticity of artworks, ensuring your investments are fully secure. Our triple-layer protection (Tag + AI) in blockchain guarantees your collection cannot be forged or stolen. Advanced GPS tracking and environmental sensors (temperature & humidity) provide real-time monitoring to prevent theft and preserve artwork condition.
Selling? Authenticity verification takes just 7 seconds – fast, reliable, and 100% transparent. We safeguard cultural heritage for future generations and create the world's largest educational ecosystem in the field of art, open to researchers, curators, and art lovers worldwide.
For Insurers, Government and Non-Governmental Organizations
Reducing Risk, Protecting Heritage
Blockchain-verified authentication provides instant access to immutable provenance data, reducing underwriting risk and enabling competitive premiums.
- GPS + Environmental Sensors — Real-time tracking and condition monitoring prevent theft and damage claims
- Articollect Agent Pro — Field application for insurance adjusters and government officers with instant verification and damage assessment
- Global Stolen/Destroyed Artwork Registry — Cross-reference database for claims processing and art crime prevention
7-second verification enables faster claims processing, reduced fraud, and comprehensive protection for national heritage and cultural collections.
Technology
How do we protect theart?
With CanvasID, we've built a proprietary image-fingerprinting technology that goes beyond standard machine-learning methods. Our model captures an artwork's unique "visual genotype," recognizing both similarities and subtle differences within the same piece. A custom training approach and hybrid loss function make the fingerprint exceptionally stable and nearly impossible to replicate. As a result, the system can identify the original with unmatched precision—even under variations, copies, or modifications.
Artificial intelligence analyzing the unique characteristics of each artwork (style, technique, material).
Physical NFC Tag, inseparably linked to the artwork's history.
Blockchain registry – a guarantee of immutability and permanence of records.
Market Opportunity
The Growing
Art Market
The global art market represents a multi-billion dollar opportunity with consistent growth potential. Our authentication technology addresses a critical need in this expanding marketplace.
Most art trades without strong digital proof of authenticity. Articollect's secure NFC + blockchain IDs give every piece verifiable history — boosting trust, preserving value, and unlocking secondary-market potential.
The Challenge
Preserving Value,
Unlocking Trust
Most art still trades without strong digital proof of authenticity, leaving emerging-artist works especially vulnerable to lost value at resale due to weak provenance and lack of visibility. Articollect's secure NFC + blockchain IDs give every piece a verifiable history — boosting trust, preserving value, and unlocking secondary-market potential for collectors and artists alike.
Digital Provenance
Authenticity Issues
Transaction Flow
Experience the App
See Articollect
in Action
Discover how our revolutionary app transforms art authentication and protection. From scanning artworks to verifying authenticity, experience the future of art security.
Swipe through the screens to see how artists, collectors, and museums interact with our technology.
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Point your camera at any artwork to begin authentication
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Our Team
Expertise in Perfect
Balance
ArtiCollect is built by a team that doesn't exist anywhere else. Art market veterans who understand authentication, valuation, and the global gallery ecosystem, combined with AI researchers publishing at the world's top conferences, engineers who've scaled platforms to millions of users, and business leaders with decades of European tech and private equity experience.
Georg Sus
Co-Founder & CEO
Georg Sus
Co-Founder & CEO
Global art expert with decades of experience in authentication, valuation, and market strategy. Brings an extensive international network of galleries, collectors, auction houses, and art institutions. Has facilitated high-profile transactions and advised on provenance verification across European and Asian markets. At ArtiCollect, Georg drives business development, strategic partnerships, and go-to-market, connecting the company's AI capabilities with the people and institutions that shape the global art trade.
Bartosz Kotrys
Co-Founder & CTO
System architect and product thinker with 12+ years of experience building and scaling platforms end-to-end. Led large-scale cloud migrations, designed distributed systems serving millions of users, and pioneered AI-augmented workflows. Passionate about building products that make complex technology feel simple and intuitive. At ArtiCollect, Bartosz owns product vision, shapes the user experience, and translates market needs into the platform architecture.
Gerhard Sundt
Business Angel
Gerhard Sundt
Business Angel
Serial technology executive and investor with 40+ years at the intersection of IT, telecoms, and private equity. Has served as Chairman of the Board for 15+ companies across Europe, with a deep network spanning major private equity funds, enterprise tech leadership, and the German Mittelstand. Brings hands-on operational experience scaling businesses from startup through exit. Actively mentors founders on governance, fundraising, and international expansion. Lectured at MIT.
Patryk Bartkowiak
Founding AI Researcher
PhD candidate in Computer Science at Adam Mickiewicz University, specializing in generative AI and computer vision. Architect of ArtiCollect's AI Foundation Model, the engine that produces artist and artwork fingerprints. Published at top-tier venues (ACM UMAP, ECCV under review). Experienced in training large-scale neural networks and optimizing inference for real-time applications. Bridges the gap between cutting-edge academic research and production-ready AI systems.
Dr. Wojciech Pałubicki
Scientific Advisor
Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University and head of the Visual Computing Lab (AI, Synthetic Data & Simulation). PhD from University of Calgary, postdoc at University of Cambridge (Sainsbury Laboratory). Published at ACM SIGGRAPH, the gold standard in visual computing. Brings deep expertise in procedural modeling and physically-based rendering. Guides ArtiCollect's research on synthetic data, physical realism, and visual representations.
Alicja Wiącek
Full-Stack / Data Engineer
Versatile engineer bridging front-end, back-end, and data infrastructure. Designs and builds end-to-end data pipelines, interactive dashboards, and production-grade web services. Experienced in cloud-native architectures, automated ETL processes, and turning raw research data into actionable insights. At ArtiCollect, Alicja owns the data platform that powers analytics, model training workflows, and the tools the team relies on every day.