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Card Genius · AI authentication and grading

The intelligent standard.

AI that verifies a trading card is genuine, grades it the same way every time, and shows the evidence behind both.

  • Authenticity™
  • Score™
  • Vault™ & Registry™
  • Plus
Shohei Ohtani, front
Card Genius Score™Example · Not an issued grade8.6/10

Demonstration image · Illustrative score

Why Card Genius

Authenticity and grading shouldn’t be matters of opinion.

Today

Real or not is an expert’s call.

Authenticity is judged by eye and experience, one card at a time.

With Card Genius

Verified by measurement.

Every card is examined on instruments and compared with known-genuine cards from the same set, before it is graded.

Today

The grade depends on who gives it.

A grade is one person’s judgment. Send the same card in twice and it can come back with a different number.

With Card Genius

The same grade, every time.

One AI measures every card against one published standard. Nobody’s mood, nobody’s eye.

Today

You take their word for it.

The label gives a number. What the grader saw stays with the grader.

With Card Genius

You can see why.

Every finding is pinned to the photograph it came from, on a certificate anyone can open.

01 · Card Genius Authenticity™

Genuine first.
Then graded.

A Score on a fake is the one failure this business cannot afford. No card is graded until it is verified, and every card is verified the same way, in minutes.

Independent examinations
  1. PrintClose-ups of the dot pattern and the black layer
  2. StockBacklight, weight and thickness
  3. InkUltraviolet and infrared response
  4. CutEdge close-ups and measured size
  5. SurfaceRaking light on finish, texture and foil

Each is compared with known-genuine cards from the same set. All of them have to agree.

01

References first

A library of genuine cards for every set in scope. No reference, no verdict: the card is declined.

02

Pass, fail or unsure

Anything short of a clean pass goes to a person. No Score is issued on an unverified card.

03

Proven blind

Tested before launch on cards whose truth we know, with the acceptable miss rate fixed in advance.

04

Every card fingerprinted

Its photographs identify it for good. A card that returns altered, or a slab that has been swapped, does not match.

Every examination is a photograph or a reading in the same placement as grading: about three minutes a card.In development for the pilot

02 · Card Genius Score™

Every detail, measured.
Every score explained.

Specific measures in three areas, scored to a tenth of a point. The standard can grow, and every report names what it scored.

Shohei Ohtani, front
Card Genius Score™ · Example8.6/10
Centering & size
9.2
Centering 9.1Size 9.4
Corners & edges
8.3
Corners 8.1Edges 8.6
Surface & coloring
8.6
Surface 8.4Coloring 8.9
Population

14 at this score

3 copies score higher
Recorded finding

Example finding

Top-left corner · Shown for illustration
Open the working example ↗Shohei Ohtani · 2018 Bowman Chrome · Rookie card · Illustrative figures, not an issued grade

03 · How it works

From raw card
to proven grade.

Four steps, designed for minutes per card. Each one names what it takes to run.

  1. 01

    Capture

    One placement per side. Every photograph that authenticity and grading need, taken in sequence.

    It takesA capture station: cameras, lens, controlled light
  2. 02

    Authenticate

    Independent examinations against known-genuine references. A card that cannot be verified is not graded.

    It takesA reference library and an examiner’s bench
  3. 03

    Grade

    The AI scores each measure and pins every finding to the photograph it came from.

    It takesA calibrated model
  4. 04

    Certify

    A person signs off. The card is sealed and labeled, and its certificate opens from one QR code.

    It takesA reviewer, slabs, labels and sealing
Working today

Capture, the interactive inspection and the certificate.

To build

The authenticity checks and reference library, calibrated scoring, the slab and label.

04 · Proof

Proof that travels
with the card.

One scan opens the whole record: authenticity, score, findings, population and original photographs. Keep it with a collection, or place it in a listing and let buyers see for themselves.

Scan to open the example report
Open the experience.

Scan with a phone.

View the example report ↗

Live example · Not an issued grade · This demonstration card has not been examined

Card GeniusAI grading
Baseball

Shohei Ohtani

2018 Bowman Chrome · Rookie card
Card Genius Score™8.6

Example assessment — not an issued grade

Centering & size
9.2
Centering 9.1Size 9.4
Corners & edges
8.3
Corners 8.1Edges 8.6
Surface & coloring
8.6
Surface 8.4Coloring 8.9
Recorded finding

Example finding

Top-left corner · Shown for illustration
Population

14 at this score

3 higher · Illustrative
Card Genius Authenticity™

Not examined

An issued certificate confirms the card as genuine here.
The card shown is a demonstration.
QR code for this example assessment

05 · Value

Know what
it’s worth.

Collectors trade on price. Card Genius Value turns a score into an appraisal anyone can trace back to its comps.

  • CompsRecent sales of the same card at the same score.
  • ScarcityHow many copies hold that score, and how many sit higher.
  • QualityWhere this copy sits inside its score.

Planned · Part of Card Genius Plus

Appraised valueShohei OhtaniIllustrative

$240

Range $215 – $265 · 12 recent sales

Comps
Recent sales at 8.5 to 8.7
Scarcity
Population 14 · 3 higher
Quality
Card Genius Score™ 8.6
Illustrative figures · Not an appraisal

The business

One record.
Four products.

Authenticity and grading come first. Everything else is built on the same record.

In preview

Card GeniusScore™

Verified genuine, then graded. Measured the same way every time, with the evidence attached.

Starting at $19.99Per card, one time
In development

Card GeniusAuthenticity™

The verification behind every Score. Offered on its own for cards that only need verifying.

With every ScoreOn its own: price to be set
Planned

Card GeniusVault™ & Registry™

Every graded card in one place, and the population of each card at every score.

With PlusPrice to be set
Planned

Card GeniusPlus

A membership for collectors who trade: the vault, live comps and appraised value.

MonthlyPrice to be set
Later, on the same record: sets, rankings and a collector community.Pricing and go-to-market are still to be set. $19.99 is the intended starting price.

Where we are

A product you can show.
A service we can build.

Live now

Make it real

  • The brand and the site
  • The interactive inspection
  • The example report and certificate
Next

Run a focused pilot

  • Choose the first card scope and build its reference library
  • Build the capture station with the authenticity checks in it, and prove them blind
  • Calibrate the scoring; choose the slab and label; prove turnaround and the starting price
Then

Take it to market

  • Bring the collectors, partners and sales
  • Add the Vault™ and Registry™
  • Open Card Genius Plus
Explore the live product ↗The authenticity checks, calibrated scoring and a real card scan remain to be built.