Every item gets a Passport
A permanent identity and an append-only history — scanned, graded, transferred, sold, delivered. History is added to, never quietly rewritten.
About Collector Assistant
It starts with a shoebox.
Every collector has had one. A box of cards, sorted and re-sorted, taken out and looked through most days. You could tell any one of them apart at a glance. What you could not tell was what you actually had, or what any of it was worth.
That gap is the whole reason this exists. The knowing was never the problem — collectors carry an enormous amount in their heads. The problem is that none of it is written down anywhere that survives: not the story of where a card came from, not what it cost, not what one like it last sold for, and not what is still missing from the set.
Collector Assistant is built to close that gap for the eleven-year-old with a shoebox and the dealer with eleven thousand cards, using the same record for both. Photograph a card and it reads what is printed on it. Catalogue it and it goes and finds out what the card is, what copies in the same grade have actually sold for, and which set it belongs to — with the sources attached, so every claim can be followed back to something.
And a collection is not only what you own. It is also what you are still looking for. So the same research that tells you what a card is worth tells you how much of its set you already have and where the rest of it can be found. A ledger records. An assistant helps you finish.
What the record has to get right
Verified is not the same as claimed
An event a collector asserts and an event the platform observed are shown differently and always will be. A record that blurs the two is worth nothing when it matters.
Research carries its sources
A price with no source is a guess wearing a number. Comparable sales are shown with the grade they refer to and a link to where they were found, or they are not shown.
Owning and holding are different things
A card in a third-party vault is still yours. Ownership and custody are tracked separately, because conflating them is how collections go missing on paper.
The record travels with the card
A sale moves ownership in one place, at one moment, and the history goes with it. Provenance that only exists inside one marketplace is not provenance.
Private stays private
What you paid, where it is stored and what you wrote in your notes are never part of a public Passport. Sharing the record does not mean sharing your business.
Where this is going, and where it is not yet
The intention has always been wider than cards. Memorabilia of every kind deserves the same record, and collectors deserve somewhere to talk to each other about it — to trade, to ask, and to argue about grading the way collectors always have.
The talking part now exists. Collectors can open channels, attach a card to a message so its record travels with the conversation, and tie a channel to a collection — being let into the room is what lets you see those cards, and nothing is made public to do it. Live show-and-tell sessions can be announced, though the video itself is not carried yet.
The wider ambition is not finished. The catalogue is still card-shaped, so memorabilia does not have a proper home here yet. That is named rather than implied, because a platform asking to be trusted with the history of your collection should not begin by overstating its own.
Start with one card
Photograph something out of the box and see what comes back.