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The art world needs its own digital infrastructure for networking, matchmaking, and business.

artist ritual is developing ashoka ritual, a vertical relationship and matching platform, Artist Search Engine and Global Artist Index for the global arts and creative industries in 12 languages. Artists, ensembles, event organizers, galleries, institutions, brands, and other professionals gain access to structured profiles, multilingual search capabilities, relevance-based matching, and direct communication, all within a single system. Our goal (Tobias von Kitzing and David Uhl) is to transform fragmented contacts into a usable international network for collaborations, commissions, and long-term business relationships.

We combine multilingual artist profiles, structured search, matching, communication, and relationship management into a vertical platform for the art and creative world. Our goal is not to replicate existing networks, but to bring their previously separate functions together within an art-specific data and relationship framework.

One network. One relationship layer. One scalable infrastructure.

The professional art world and creative world is digitally fragmented and currently operates across numerous separate systems: visibility is generated on social media, contacts are stored in messaging apps and personal address books, and traditional CRM solutions do little to capture artistic roles, styles, and working methods. This fragmentation makes searching, international collaboration, and systematic relationship management more difficult. ashoka ritual consolidates these tasks into a vertical platform.

Simply put: professional identity like on LinkedIn, relationship building like on social media, and relationship management like in a CRM, but tailored to the roles, styles, tools, and realities of the art and creative world.

Brand

ashoka ritual is an established brand. We are pursuing a dual-logo strategy in our brand management:

Tests of image ads yielded promising results. The logo stands out on the screen. The graphic design and the perception of the logo as a kind of sight convey the idea of “taking aim” at the target audiences.

 

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Would you like to review our traction, business model, funding needs, and roadmap in detail? Start a confidential investor dialogue. Upon request, we’ll provide in-depth documentation and our most recent verified key metrics. You can find insights on our strategic positioning here and here. The 12-language social network ashoka ritual reaches its target audience in 158 countries. Thanks to its intuitive user interface, the platform is accessible and easy to use for a potential of in fact 4.04 billion Internet users.
 

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Anyone interested can reach David Uhl by phone under +49 176 24092422.

For investors who understand vertical networks and data-driven platforms

Wanted:
Strategically aligned investors for the next phase of growth. We are looking for capital partners with experience in platform scaling, B2C and B2B growth, international expansion, data products, or digital marketplace and network models. Investors who can contribute not only capital but also operational experience and access to relevant partner networks are particularly valuable.

Current Status of the Network ashoka ritual:
The core platform is live, and the key product features are production-ready. The next phase is clearly focused on market validation: increasing user activation and retention, strengthening network effects in prioritized segments, validating willingness to pay and monetization, and preparing for international expansion based on data. For this phase, we are seeking an investor who combines capital, platform expertise, and access to networks. The credit system, which is already in development, will be launched shortly.

Core products currently available online:

• Global Artist Search
  A World First! Structured, international, semantic artist search in 12 languages
• Global Artist Networking
  A World First! The first 12-language C2C CRM for artists and everyone
• Global Art Feed
  A World First! The world's first Global Art Feed featuring curated and translated art news in 12 languages from over 150 countries, organized by role, style, and tool.
• Global Artist Index
  A world first! 100,000 artists! The leading global index for artists! 

  
   

Product tiers available for purchase via the credit system:

• AR Profile
• AR Impulse
• AR Connect
• AR Response
• AR Global

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At a Glance

• Positioning of ashoka ritual
• About artist ritual / ashoka ritual
• Brand ambassadors of artist ritual
• LinkedIn profiles of the two founders, Tobias von Kitzing and David Uhl

Why now?

Three developments are converging: Generative AI reduces the effort required for structured profile creation and assistance functions; real-time translation breaks down language barriers; and semantic search makes complex artist profiles significantly more machine-readable and comparable for the first time. At the same time, the professional art and creative world remains digitally fragmented. ashoka ritual combines this technological moment with an established art-specific data structure and a network product available in real time.
AI is more than just technology. For artists, AI is a location factor, a growth driver, and, ultimately, a sustainable career booster.

The Significance of AI for Artists

AI is more than just technology. For artists, AI is a location factor, a growth driver, and, ultimately, a sustainable career lever. So far, no one has structured the art market in a way that allows AI to achieve its maximum impact on this market. The best tool for this goal is a tailored, globally understandable semantic taxonomy architecture that meets artists where they are in their artistic lives and creative realities. 16,000 taxonomies organized by roles, styles, and tools – with up to four hierarchical levels – that are perfectly translated in granular detail across 12 languages serve as a tool for translation and communication. With this semantic meta-network, ashoka ritual will tackle and structure the global art market.

The Structural Advantage

The core value of ashoka ritual lies not solely in its individual features. The platform describes artistic identities through approximately 4,000 roles, 4,000 styles, and 8,000 tools, and can link these characteristics to profiles, locations, interests, relationships, and interactions. As usage grows, this can give rise to an increasingly dense Creative Relationship Graph: a structured database showing who does what, how people work artistically, who they are looking for, and which relationships actually lead to collaboration.

Network Effect

The network effect stems from relevance, not just reach: Every qualified profile expands the search space; every real interaction provides additional signals about which relationships actually lead to connections, collaboration, or business. As density increases, ashoka ritual can improve matching and recommendations while simultaneously building an increasingly valuable Creative Relationship Graph.

What We Want to Prove

The technological foundation has been laid. The central investment hypothesis for the next phase is this: A vertical, multilingual network for artists and creative professionals can generate higher-quality relationships and greater user retention than horizontal networks through structured identity data and relevance-based matching. The funding will be used to validate this hypothesis with robust usage, retention, and revenue data.

Monetization

Our business model is consistently geared toward recurring and scalable revenue. At its core is a credit system in which revenue is flexibly based on actual usage. In the next phase, the focus will be on robustly validating key financial metrics such as willingness to pay, conversion, ARPU/ACV, and retention. What matters most here is not the sheer number of potential revenue sources, but rather demonstrating a clear, functional, and consistently scalable core model. An experienced team of experts is already in place for the upcoming phase of activation, user acquisition, and scaling; this team brings proven, long-standing best-practice experience, particularly in the areas of tracking and international ad architectures.

Product features currently available

1. AI-powered onboarding: Existing artist data can be searched and checked for plausibility to reduce the effort involved in profile creation and build structured profiles more quickly.
2. Artist Personality Profile: A structured test supplements traditional profile data with working methods, preferences, and individual strengths.
3. Structured Artist Identity: Individuals and ensembles can differentiate their work across approximately 4,000 roles, 4,000 styles, and 8,000 tools. This taxonomy forms the basis for more precise search, matching, and future data-driven recommendations.
4. Multilingual Onboarding: The dialog-based profile creation supports twelve languages, thereby reducing barriers to entry for international users.
5. Visibility and Data Control: Profile completeness, a personalized SEO address, and controlled publication improve discoverability and give users control over the visibility of their information.
6. Personal Artist AI Agent: A profile-based agent assists users in maintaining, developing, and utilizing their data and can identify relevant contacts and opportunities in a context-sensitive manner.
7. Semantic matching across language barriers: Roles, styles, and tools can be searched for and matched in twelve languages. Live translation reduces additional hurdles in international networking.
8. Multilingual real-time communication: Users can establish international connections directly on the platform and overcome language barriers through integrated translation.
9. Contact Without Registration Barriers: External prospects, event organizers, and potential partners can get in touch even without their own user account. This reduces friction on the demand side of the network.
10. Location-Based Artist Radar: Relevant artists can be found based on their geographic location. In this way, the platform combines global search capabilities with local collaboration and project opportunities.
11. International Network Activation: Search, matching, and communication should not end with visibility, but rather facilitate concrete contacts, collaborations, tours, projects, and market access.
12. A Profile as an Operational Foundation: Roles, styles, and tools are not only presented but also used as a structured foundation for discoverability, matching, relationships, and professional development across twelve language regions.