Sentiko
the emotional barometer of culture

Culture moves people. Now it leaves a trace.

Attendance tells you they came.
Sentiko tells you what they left with, while it's still warm.

A polaroid of an evening at home, a book, a vinyl record, a phone showing the Sentiko app splash, a theater ticket stub on a wood table
 
Bring it to your venue Aligned with UNESCO 2025  ·  WHO-Lancet  ·  GDPR

Founder thesis

Elizabeth Markevitch · Founder, Sentiko
how we have been counting culture

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The average response rate of a museum exit survey. Decisions worth millions, made on a whisper of data.

why the 4% problem ends here

Why the 4% problem ends here

„Because what we ask for, in return, is fifteen seconds and a flower."

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In the room, not by email.

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One screen, one tap.

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The flower is theirs.

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The garden grows live.

the instrument in your pocket

No app to download. Just a flower waiting to bloom.

The audience scans, the institution sees the garden grow.

The five questions

the five questions
01 · somatic awareness

„How does your body feel right now?"

are you calmer than you were an hour ago
02 · affective state

„What emotion is closest to the surface?"

a single word, no scale, no slider
03 · transformation

„Did anything shift while you watched?"

the question a curator wants answered
04 · memory anchor

„Is there an image you want to keep?"

what stays after the room is empty
05 · voice

„What would you want to say, if anyone were listening?"

the line a director carries home

These questions are how a person checks in with themselves. The data is a side effect.

Spreadsheets count visitors before their experience. Sentiko keeps what visitors felt.

„Spreadsheets count visitors before their experience. Sentiko keeps what visitors felt."

the warm-data lens
today's reading from the room

What one Tuesday at the museum reads like.

Live, every day, while the feeling is still warm, not six months later, when the season is over.

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flowers bloomed

calmer

calm

present

presence

deeper

perspective

closer

connection

warmer

engagement

Synthetic reading. The first real one arrives with the Rainbirds tour, summer 2026.

live pilot, forthcoming

Rainbirds, May 9, 2026.

Sentiko's first live deployment runs on Katharina Franck's Rainbirds tour across Germany. Single QR per venue, German copy, single emotional barometer at the end of each concert. We will publish what we find, including what does not work.

„This is a forthcoming pilot, not a proof point. Results in summer 2026."

Rainbirds tour blueprint LP, the visual anchor of the May 2026 Sentiko pilot
why this language matters now

The world has been asking for this instrument.

UNESCO, 2022

Culture is a global public good. We lack the instruments to measure its effect.

WHO & Lancet, 2019

Documents the role of the arts in health, illness, and recovery, but provides no measurement at audience scale.

Sentiko is that instrument.

Johns Hopkins, 2023

Maps how art measurably shifts attention, emotion, and physiology, in lab studies, with biometric tools.

Sentiko captures those shifts at audience scale, in the moment they happen.

Mariana Mazzucato, IIPP, 2025

Financial support for arts and culture is often treated as a cost, not an investment.

Sentiko is the instant instrument, a live reading of the three public-value dimensions she names.

Your audience is already feeling it.Now you can see it.

Talk to Elizabeth