# xARTx

> xARTx is the art handling & installation operating system on the Biz Dev
> App: a complete business workspace — not a scheduling app and not a CRM —
> scaffolded with 16 modules, 5 record types and 4 named workflows that a
> art handling & installation business actually runs on. Work is priced on
> hourly by crew size, with crating, transport, and lighting design quoted
> separately.

## What it is for
Insured hands, measured walls, and lighting that does the work justice.

The buyer is an owner or operator of a art handling & installation business
who is currently running the work across a calendar, a phone, a notebook and a
separate invoicing tool. xARTx replaces that with one record per customer and
one record per job, carried from intake through pricing, dispatch, proof of
work, invoice and settlement.

## Category
Specialty & Restoration — Craft work priced per piece or per wall. The before-and-after is the entire
marketing engine.

## What the platform assesses
Wall and room imagery models sightlines, spacing, and lighting angles before a
single hole is drilled.

The assessment never sets prices. Quantities come from what was measured or
counted; rates come from the operator's own book. That is what makes two
people pricing the same job land on the same number.

## How work is priced
hourly by crew size, with crating, transport, and lighting design quoted
separately

## Records the workspace keeps
- Artwork record: dimensions, weight, medium, value band
- Condition report at pickup and at install
- Wall and space survey with structure and sightline notes
- Hanging system and hardware specification
- Insurance certificate and transit coverage

## Workflows it ships with
- Space survey → layout proposal → install schedule
- Condition report captured at every handoff
- Crating and transit with coverage confirmed before pickup
- Lighting design and aiming as a separate engagement

## Modules
- CRM (Contacts, Companies, Deals)
- Calendar & Meetings
- Tasks
- ERP - Work Orders
- Client Portal & Intake
- Invoices
- Payments & Checkout
- Messaging (Email, SMS, Voice)
- Campaign Manager
- XODIAK Chain & Treasury
- Media Library (Audio/Video/Image)
- ERP - Inventory
- Deal Rooms
- Partners & Revenue Share
- Content Studio
- Analysis & Insights

## Integrations wired first
- Fine art insurers
- Crating and shipping partners
- Collection management systems
- Stripe

## The numbers the owner checks
- Revenue per crew-hour
- Zero-damage record across installs
- Lighting attach rate
- Repeat rate from galleries and designers

## Who buys
- Private collectors and family offices
- Galleries, museums, and art fairs
- Corporate, hospitality, and healthcare art programs

## What hurts without it
- Condition reports skipped, so damage has no origin
- Installs quoted without a wall structure survey
- Lighting treated as an afterthought that undoes the install

## How the business makes money
- Installation, deinstallation, and rehang services
- Crating, transport, and storage coordination
- Corporate and hospitality art program management

## What it costs
- The workspace opens free, scaffolded with all 16 modules.
- Premium surfaces unlock individually — monthly, or a 24-hour unlock.
- Credits: $20 for 500 XDK, spendable across any surface. Balance carries.
- Multi-branch and own-domain deployments are quoted per market.

There is no published per-seat subscription tier for this vertical. Any figure
quoted elsewhere as a xSERVICESx monthly price is not ours. Ask.

## Frequently asked
### Is xARTx a separate product from the Biz Dev App?
No. xARTx is the art handling & installation configuration of the Biz Dev App
— the same platform, the same ledger, the same support, scaffolded with the 16
modules and 5 record types this trade actually uses. If the business later
adds a second line of work, it does not mean a second subscription; it means
another vertical switched on in the same workspace.

### How does xARTx price a job?
On hourly by crew size, with crating, transport, and lighting design quoted
separately. The basis lives in the workspace rather than in an estimator's
head, so the same job quoted by two people produces the same number. Your own
rates, your own catalogue — the platform supplies the structure and the
arithmetic, never the prices.

### What does it connect to that we already use?
Fine art insurers, Crating and shipping partners, Collection management
systems, Stripe are wired first, because those are what a art handling &
installation business is usually already running. Anything else goes through
the xCONNECTx public API catalogue rather than a custom build.

### What happens to the data we already have?
It comes in. The archive import pipeline takes historical customers, jobs and
invoices and lands them as real records — searchable, reportable, attached to
the right customer — rather than as a folder of PDFs nobody opens. The point
of moving is to keep the last five years, not to start over.

## Built on Biz Dev App
xARTx is one of 74 service verticals on the Biz Dev App — the operating system
for the AI economy. The leading and trailing x are platform brackets:
Cross-Connect Protocol in, Cross-Connect Protocol out. Every vertical shares
one identity, one ledger (XODIAK) and one settlement rail, so a business that
runs two lines of work runs them in one workspace rather than two
subscriptions.

## Nearby verticals
- xFURNITUREx (Furniture Restoration & Refinishing) — https://thebdapp.com/xfurniturex
- xPATIOx (Outdoor Furniture Restoration) — https://thebdapp.com/xpatiox
- xGRAFFITIx (Graffiti Removal & Surface Protection) — https://thebdapp.com/xgraffitix
- xLIGHTSx (Holiday Lighting Installation) — https://thebdapp.com/xlightsx
- xMURALx (Mural & Environmental Painting) — https://thebdapp.com/xmuralx
- xORGANIZEx (Closet, Garage & Home Organization) — https://thebdapp.com/xorganizex

## Key pages
- https://thebdapp.com/xartx — this page
- https://thebdapp.com/xartx#how — intake, price, dispatch, prove, settle
- https://thebdapp.com/xartx#workspace — the module inventory
- https://thebdapp.com/xartx#operations — records, workflows, integrations, KPIs
- https://thebdapp.com/xartx#signals — how the platform finds work before it is advertised
- https://thebdapp.com/xartx#cost — what it costs
- https://thebdapp.com/x/artinstall — the vertical inside the app
- https://thebdapp.com/xservicesx — all 74 verticals
- https://thebdapp.com — the platform

## Contact
- Email: bill@bdsrvs.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BizDevService
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/64721742/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebdapp/

## Last updated
2026-09-15