Research conversations / 2026
Peer research helping you to implement AI effectively and safely ahead of your competitors
Twenty minutes with gallery managers and operations leads at independent London primary-market galleries — 5 to 50 staff, ten years or more established. Modern Way is an AI consulting and education practice; this research informs how we advise and teach.
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What this is
Independent research. No pitch, no follow-up sales.
These conversations exist to learn, not to sell. There is no deck, no demo and no follow-up from a sales team. Your name is not added to a list.
Everything you share is treated as confidential. Anything that appears in the benchmark report below is anonymised and stripped of identifying detail.
What participants get
An anonymised peer benchmark, written for galleries like yours.
Once twelve conversations are complete, every participant receives a written report comparing how independent London galleries are approaching AI and the operational questions around it: what they have tried, what worked, what they would not do again.
It is the kind of straight comparison the sector rarely produces about itself, and the basis for the consulting and education work Modern Way offers afterwards — if and only if you want it. [Placeholder] Roughly 20 pages, delivered as a PDF.
What the conversation covers
- The exhibition run-up: weeks four to one, where time actually goes.
- Artist relationships and the work around them.
- Art fair operations: applications, logistics, the week itself.
- The gallery tool stack: what you use, what you have stitched together.
- Waiting list management and collector relationships.
- What has been tried with AI already, what helped, and where it has fallen short.
Who's doing the research
Emma Bleasdale
Emma spent twenty years in commercial advisory roles in the art market before founding Modern Way. She is now advising and teaching galleries on the practical use of AI, and conducting these conversations personally.
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