AI Assistant for Your Cargo Site

Made for People Who Care How a Site Looks

Artists, designers, and studios choose Cargo because it treats a website as a designed object, not a template to be filled in. Every margin, crop, and transition is a decision. The problem is that most chat tools were built for support desks and software dashboards, and they land on a careful portfolio like a sticker on a gallery wall. An assistant for a Cargo site has to earn its place — it should disappear into the corner until a visitor wants it, then speak with the same intention the rest of the site was built with.

That is the line Asyntai is designed to walk. It loads from Cargo's Custom HTML as a single floating layer, leaving your grid, type, and pacing exactly as you made them. You decide its colour, its corner, and its voice. The work stays the headline; the assistant is the quiet figure at the desk who knows the answers when someone finally asks.

Handling the Enquiries That Actually Matter

A working artist or studio does not field a flood of generic questions; it fields a handful of consequential ones. Are you available for a commission this autumn? Are you represented, or open to a conversation with a gallery? Can we license this image for a campaign? Would you be open to a feature, and is there a press kit? Each of these is a door, and behind some of them is the next year of your practice.

The assistant has read your project pages, your statement, and your exhibition history, and it can hold the documents you would never post publicly — a rate card, representation terms, a press pack. So when a producer or curator opens the chat, it can give a real answer about scope and availability, or take a structured brief, instead of bouncing them to a contact form that may sit unread for a week. The serious enquiries reach you as briefs; the idle ones resolve themselves.

Speaking for Your Practice in Your Absence

You are rarely at your desk when most people look at your work. They find you after an opening, at midnight, mid-deadline, in another time zone, the day a piece gets shared widely. A static portfolio can only show; it cannot respond. When a visitor arrives full of intent and meets nothing but a menu, that momentum quietly drains away.

An assistant that knows your practice keeps that moment alive. It can describe a body of work, explain that a series is part of a larger project, note that prints are available on request, or confirm that you take selected commissions. It speaks in the register you set, so a collector and an art director each meet a voice that sounds like your studio rather than a stranger reading a script.

Learning What Your Audience Wants

Every conversation is a quiet record of what people came looking for. Read the logs and patterns surface: a particular series draws the most curiosity, visitors keep asking for prints you have not yet listed, or press requests outnumber paid enquiries by a wide margin. None of this shows up in a page-view chart, and all of it is useful.

Those signals tell you what to publish next — a dedicated prints page, a clearer commissions note, a downloadable press kit. Over time your site stops guessing and starts answering the questions your audience actually asks, which makes both the portfolio and the assistant sharper with every month that passes.

Adding It Without Touching the Design

You chose Cargo so you would not have to wrangle templates or write your own front end, and adding an assistant should respect that. Cargo provides a Custom HTML editor for exactly this kind of addition, under Site Settings in the CSS/HTML panel. You paste one Asyntai snippet into the HTML tab, click Update, and because Custom HTML applies across the whole site, the assistant is present on every page at once.

From there everything else happens in the Asyntai dashboard, never in your site's code. You point it at your URL to learn your work, upload any private documents, set its tone and colour, and preview conversations before anyone sees them. If you can paste an embed into Cargo, you can give your portfolio a concierge — and you can refine how it speaks for years without ever opening the HTML field again.