How to Search Artworks with AI Chat

Overview

CocoAI is Cohart’s AI art curator. Describe what you are looking for — a room, a gift, a mood, a budget, or an artist — and it searches the Cohart marketplace catalog and answers with matching artworks (it can also find events, artists, and galleries).

• Who it’s for — anyone browsing Cohart, including returning visitors who pick up past chats.
• Where to find it — the chat on the Cohart home page.
• What it shows — a short summary plus artwork cards with artist, price, medium, size, and mood tags.
• What you can do — Like, Save, Inquire to purchase, Buy now, or View details on each card.

Your requests affect only your own chat.

Before you start

• A Cohart account is optional. The home page opens the AI chat to everyone, and guests can send up to 3 messages before being asked to sign up or sign in. No account yet? See How to Sign Up.
• No favorites required. The chat searches the whole Cohart marketplace catalog (available, non-hidden, marketplace-listed works), so you can ask for anything — style, mood, budget, size, or artist.
• It cannot search the artworks you already favorited. To use it, open the chat on the home page, type your request, press Enter, then use Like or Save on the artwork cards it returns.
• A plain-language request in mind, or use a suggested prompt. After a conversation starts the message box reads “Type anything…”, and the Ask AI button in the top bar opens the home page chat with your query already sent.
• Effects to know: the chat itself only reads and answers — it never changes anything on its own, though the artwork cards it shows include actions such as Save, Inquire to purchase, and Buy now that you can choose for yourself.

Steps

1. Sign in to Cohart

Sign in with your email address and password, or use Google or Apple.

2. Open the AI chat on the home page

After signing in, open the Cohart home page — the AI chat opens directly on this page.

If you have chatted before, you’ll see Welcome Back with options to Continue this or Start fresh — click Start fresh (or New chat in the top-right of the chat panel) to begin a new conversation.

Type your request in the message box at the bottom of the chat. The box shows the placeholder “Tell us what you’re looking for…”.

3. Type your request to find artworks

Type a request in plain language, for example: abstract artwork under $2,000 for a bright living room.

You can also click a suggested prompt if you’re not sure what to ask. The chat offers suggestions like I’M DECORATING A ROOM, I’M LOOKING FOR A GIFT, I WANT SOMETHING FOR A SPECIFIC MOOD, SHOW ME WHAT’S NEW THIS WEEK, and FIND ME AN ARTIST I’LL LOVE.

4. Send the message

Press Enter on your keyboard to send the message. The AI responds with a short summary of what it found, followed by matching artwork cards, for example: “Based on your interest in abstract figurative works with a sensual and mysterious mood, here are some highlights from the marketplace.”

5. Browse and interact with the results

Each artwork card shows the artwork, the artist, price, medium, size, and mood tags. Use the buttons on each card to:

• Like — mark an artwork as liked
• Save — save the artwork (the button changes to Saved once it’s saved)
• Inquire to purchase — ask about buying the artwork
• Buy now — go to checkout (if the artwork is available for purchase)
• View details — open the artwork’s full page

Use the Next button to see more results (the counter at the top shows how many results you have, for example “of 8”).

Tips

• Returning visitors: the chat remembers your last session. Click Continue this to pick up where you left off, or Start fresh to begin a new chat.
• Not sure what to type? Click one of the suggested prompts under “Or start with a question”, or an example prompt like “Calm, neutral artwork for a bright bedroom”.
• Shortcut: the Ask AI button in the top bar opens the home page chat and sends your query straight away.
• Find past chats: use the Search chat field to look through your previous conversations.
• No account needed to try it: the home page chat works signed out for up to 3 guest messages, then it asks you to sign up or sign in to continue.

Troubleshooting

• None of your favorites came back → the chat searches the marketplace catalog, never your liked or saved list, so favorites are not results it can return → ask for what you want directly, then use Like or Save on the cards it returns.
• No artworks appear at all → the request matched nothing available → broaden it (remove the budget or mood) or ask in different words; the catalog only returns marketplace-listed, available artworks.
• The chat input placeholder changes → after a conversation starts, the message box reads “Type anything…” instead of “Tell us what you’re looking for…” → no action needed; this is normal.
• You landed on a different page after signing in → your landing page depends on your role (creators go to Inventory, collectors to Overview, advisors to Invoices) → navigate to the home page to reach the AI chat.