Automation for exhibition builders & museums
Quotes from drawings, parts and cutting lists, print orders, object labels, translations, loan files. If your team retypes the same information from the design into spreadsheets, workshop sheets and label files for every stand or exhibition, we automate it — with software and AI built around the tools you already use.
Today: retyped into
Generated, every time
Your work
Pick what fits and jump straight to the examples for your kind of work.
Stand & exhibition builders 5 examples Printed segments for The Wave 
Exhibit fabrication 4 examples The Orb, installed at Sherlocked 
Museum exhibitions & collections 6 examples Light for a 15th-century church, Laurenskerk 
Interactive & AV exhibits 4 examples Demo day, Smart Objects with THUAS 
Experiences & installations 3 examples The Sun installation 
Every exhibition maker 2 examples CHIME, performing The problem
It's rarely the making. It's everything around it: pricing, listing, labelling and re-planning, again for every project.
Materials, hours, print, transport and build days priced from the drawing by hand — and again for every revision.
The drawing changed. The cutting list and the print order didn't.
Titles, makers, dates and credits copied from the collection system into labels, catalogues and the website.
Every label and wall text in two or three languages, pasted and checked by hand the week before opening.
Build schedules, crews and transport rebuilt when the client moves a date or a stand.
That counter, that wall system, that mounting detail — somewhere in a project folder from three years ago.
Before you build anything
Think of one task in your team and tick what's true. Frequent, repeatable work on digital information is where software pays back fastest — and we'll tell you what we'd do about it.
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How much could you save?
Your own numbers, for one repetitive task.
What fits
A proper tool
Weeks of your team's time every year. Worth one source of truth.
Counted over 46 working weeks and 40-hour weeks. This is your estimate of your own process, not a promise; the process review replaces it with a measured number.
How often × how long
Every task in your team sits somewhere on this grid. Wherever yours lands, there's something we can do — except the bottom left, where we'll tell you to leave it.
Tick the questions above and your task's quadrant lights up.
What we build
Most teams need a mix. We start with the smallest thing that gives you back the most hours.
Scripts and connections between the tools you already have.
A private web app with one database for projects, parts and objects, and every document generated from it.
Reading, drafting and translating — with your team checking the result.
Dashboards and reports from your projects, hours, materials and sensors.
Use cases
Real processes from exhibition makers and museums, and what software does with them. Pick your field; examples for every maker apply to everyone.
Walls, floors, elements and finishes read from your drawing and priced with your rates, hours and transport, ready to check and send.
Replaces · Measuring and pricing every element by hand
Walls, counters, frames and details you've built before, with drawings, materials and real costs, reused in the next quote.
Replaces · Redrawing and re-pricing from scratch
Hours and materials per project compared with the quote, so the next price is based on what it really took.
Replaces · Guessing the margin after the build
Parts, panels and print files generated from the 3D model, grouped by material and machine.
Replaces · Listing parts from the model by hand
A client brief or tender read into a checklist of requirements, sizes and deadlines, with every item linked to its page.
Replaces · Highlighting PDFs and hoping nothing was missed
Object data from your collection system flows into lists, labels and catalogues without retyping.
Replaces · Exporting, cleaning and pasting object data
Labels and wall texts drafted and translated in your house style, for your editors to check and approve.
Replaces · Translating and pasting text by hand
Loans, condition reports, photos and transport per object in one place, exported as the paperwork lenders ask for.
Replaces · A spreadsheet per loan and photos in folders
Lux and UV logged per object against its yearly exposure budget, with an alert before a limit is reached.
Replaces · Spot measurements and estimates
Texts, images and videos in interactive exhibits changed from one simple page, in every language.
Replaces · Calling the developer for every typo
Interactions and dwell time per exhibit from anonymous sensor or touch data, with no cameras involved.
Replaces · Watching from the corner of the room
Every installation with its parts, settings, issues and repairs, so whoever is on site knows its history.
Replaces · A notebook at the front desk
Build days, crews, vans and venues planned in one view, with schedules sent to everyone and changes reaching all of them.
Replaces · A whiteboard and a lot of phone calls
Ask which project used that wall system, that supplier or that mounting detail, and get answers that link to the source file.
Replaces · Asking the colleague who remembers
Examples for every exhibition maker are shown with every field.
Your stack
You don't have to replace anything. We connect through exports, file formats, APIs and scripts, so your drawing tool stays your drawing tool and your collection system stays your collection system.
Worked example
How we'd approach it for a stand builder. An illustration of our method, not a client project.
Before
Today a project manager reads the drawing, measures every wall and counter, and prices materials, hours, print and transport in a spreadsheet copied from the last stand.
One meeting in your office, walking a recent stand from drawing to invoice.
Walls, counters, floors and finishes stored with their materials, hours and real costs.
The drawing is read into elements and quantities. Anything the software isn't sure about is flagged for a person.
The quote, cutting lists and print orders come from the same record, in your layout.
Actual hours and materials are logged against the quote, so the next price is sharper.
After
Your designers keep drawing. Measuring, listing and re-pricing moves to one place.
Data and security
Client launches, unannounced exhibitions and lenders' details are confidential. The setup reflects that from the first line of code.
A dedicated server in the EU, or your own office server.
AI providers configured for zero retention and contractually barred from training on it.
Confidential projects processed by open models on your own hardware. Nothing leaves your building.
Source code, data and documents are yours, with exports in CSV, Excel and JSON at any time.
Process
Nothing is built that you haven't seen first.
We follow one of your real projects from brief to build and map where your hours go. You get a clear scope and price before anything is built.
Every screen and your document layouts, clicked through together and changed before any code is written.
Short build blocks, each ending in a review where your own files go through the real thing.
Training, user and admin guides, the source code and your data. Small changes stay easy afterwards.
Typical ranges from our service pages, not commitments. The process review gives you the real number.
Background
Hola Studio designs and fabricates installations, interactive exhibits and props that survive thousands of visitors. Workshop sheets, transport crates and opening-night deadlines are familiar ground — we speak your language.
Sherlocked
2024
Rebuilding a centrepiece escape-room prop so it survives thousands of players a year — including a part 3D-printed in stainless steel.
Municipality of The Hague
2022
A 3D sand-printed sculpture on Scheveningen beach that turns exercise into a game, using motion sensors and no cameras at all.
The Hague University of Applied Sciences
2025
The client for design students at The Hague University of Applied Sciences in 2022, 2024 and 2025 — interactive installations for public space, a project for Remastered, the immersive art venue under the Erasmus Bridge, a sun lamp — and THUAS interns in the studio.
Clients include Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen · Sherlocked · Municipality of The Hague
FAQ
No. Your drawing tools and collection system keep doing what they're good at. We connect to them through exports, file formats, APIs and scripts, and move only the retyping, pricing and document work.
No. We use EU-hosted AI with zero retention and no training on your data, and for confidential projects the AI can run entirely on your own server.
It can draft and translate them in your house style, but your editors decide. Every text is checked and approved by a person before it goes on a wall.
Often the first win is small: one script that turns a drawing into a parts list, or one label export that saves a week before every opening. Use the check on this page; if a task is frequent, repeatable and already digital, it's usually worth a conversation.
We don't publish prices, because scope decides it. The process review maps one of your real projects and ends with a clear scope and price before anything is built.
Typically 1–4 weeks for a process review, 4–12 weeks for a focused AI tool or automation, and 6–14 weeks for a company platform.
You do. You receive the source code, the data and the infrastructure accounts, with no lock-in.
Our page for design studios fits you better: it covers schedules, specifications and documentation for exhibition, lighting and interior design studios.
Tell us how a stand or exhibition moves through your team today. We'll tell you honestly what's worth automating, and what isn't.
Hola's studio assistant
Hola — I'm Ola. I know how the studio works: what we build, how we scope it, and what engagements usually cost.
Ask me anything, or tell me what you're trying to make.