cento finds the open calls, residencies and grants that fit your work, drafts each application in your own voice, and keeps every deadline. You review and send.
Free on Mac with local AI. Or use cento Cloud from any device.
THE HONEST TRUTH
Most applications get a no. The artists who get a yes are the ones who keep sending. cento makes the next application smaller, then shows you the numbers that matter: what you sent, who replied, and how often a yes comes.
One yes for every 9 applications. Your next 10 are worth about one more.
WHAT STEADY APPLYING COULD ADD UP TO
Every application is another chance for a yes. Pick how many you would send in a year to see an example of what that could add up to.
About 1 application a week
How to read this
1It is a what-if, not a promise. The chances of a yes and the award sizes are our assumptions, not averages from cento users.
2Money comes in lumps. One grant can make a year, and another year can have none.
3Not every yes pays. Shows and residencies build a career even when the cash is small. Your own numbers replace ours after your first few applications.
≈ $11,800
expected cash a year, after entry fees
About 4.9 yeses of any kind, and $730 spent on entry fees.
Our assumptions for this example
Set up once in about five minutes. After that, cento does the searching and the first draft.
STEP 1
Paste your website or upload a CV. cento reads your mediums, themes and history, and asks you to confirm what it found. You also say what you never want to see.
STEP 2
On Today: new calls matched to your work, ranked, with the reason each one fits. Calls that don’t fit what you make stay out, and a call you mark never show stays hidden.
STEP 3
A draft in your own voice, the right works picked, every requirement checked. Edit it, then send it yourself. cento never submits anything for you.
Every call gets a fit score with the reasons and the gaps. Oil painting, sculpture or anything else you don’t make simply never shows up.
Statement, work selection and CV lines, tailored to each call from your own statement and works. Nothing gets invented.
Calls to apply to and events to attend, side by side: fairs, conferences, openings. Reminders before anything closes.
With Cloud, subscribe newsletters to yourname@cento.art, or forward any email. cento pulls the calls out and drops the rest.
Saw a call on Instagram? Share it to cento, or send a link or a screenshot. It finds the official page and checks the fit.
A weekly goal, a streak that forgives a busy week, and a yes-rate from your own history. Effort counts, no leaderboards.
FOR ARTISTS WITH MORE THAN ONE PRACTICE
Computational art and Islamic geometric pattern. Video and textile. Each practice becomes a strand with its own works, statement and places to look. Calls that fit both rank first.
cento drafts, you send.
Nothing goes out unless you send it yourself, on the organiser’s own site.
It reads only what you give it.
Your site, your CV, links you add and emails to your cento address. Never your inbox or your feed.
Your numbers are yours.
No public rankings and no comparing yourself with other artists.
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No. cento drafts the application; you review it, edit it and submit it yourself on the organiser’s site. Nothing is ever sent for you.