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NinePocke Every card you own, even the pennies; nothing is wasted.

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A ten-cent common

Catalogued anyway

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Everything else starts at the top of the collection.

NinePocke is built for the whole collection, not the graded fraction of it.

Every other cataloguing tool is designed around the cards worth insuring. Most of a real binder is not those cards, and the rest of it quietly goes unrecorded for years — not because the owner does not care, but because entering a common one at a time costs more than the card is worth.

NinePocke catalogues them anyway. A ten-cent common costs nothing to record once recording it is fast, and pennies add up. You can still flash the good ones — they simply stop being the only thing the software can see.

One photograph. Nine cards.

Lay a page down, take one photo, and nine cards come back read, matched and sorted.

  1. 01

    You lay the page down.

    A rough overlay shows roughly where it goes. It is guidance, never alignment.

  2. 02

    Nine cards come back read.

    Year, set, number, subject, variant — pulled off each card and matched, pocket by pocket.

  3. 03

    Sorted into the groups you wrote.

    Every rule you have written is applied as the cards land, without filing anything by hand.

Built and running. Not open to new collections yet.

A group is a rule you write once.

Name a group, write the rule, and it applies to everything you already own — and to everything you scan afterwards.

A group is not a folder you drag cards into. It is a saved rule, and saving one reaches backwards through the entire catalogue the moment you write it.

Which is what lets a group be a story instead of a filter: a career arc, a character line, a childhood summer. You name it in your own words, and it stays a thing you can show someone rather than a search you have to run again.

  • The 1991 Donruss run

    year = 1991 and manufacturer = Donruss

  • Every Griffey I own

    subject contains Griffey

  • Middle school, 1996–1998

    year in 1996, 1997, 1998

Shingan™

Planned · not open yet

A condition audit that steps closer to the card.

Shingan™ is the condition audit we are building alongside NinePocke. It has its own name and its own mark, because its grade is meant to be read on a slab, away from any app.

It is planned in three levels. Each one looks more closely than the last, and only the last one grades.

  1. Level 1

    Photo audit

    From photographs you take of the card. Shingan will read its condition and give its grade potential on the scale below: where it could land, never a grade. Photographs cannot settle everything, so the result will be a conditional Scorecard.

  2. Level 2

    Live audit

    A live digital audit. Shingan will ask for close-ups and guide you through them in a chat, to confirm what photographs alone could not. The result will still be grade potential, not a grade.

  3. Level 3

    In-hand audit

    The card will come to us to be inspected in hand. This will be the only level that grades: NinePocke’s own grade, in tenths, sealed with the card in a Shingan slab and backed by a full audit report.

Our own scale, one to ten.

Every Shingan grade and every grade potential sits on this ladder. It is ours, not a grading company’s. A Level 3 grade will add tenths and name its rung, as in 8.4 · Crisp.

  1. 10 Apex
  2. 9 Immaculate
  3. 8 Crisp
  4. 7 Clean
  5. 6 Steady
  6. 5 Fair
  7. 4 Worn
  8. 3 Heavy
  9. 2 Rough
  10. 1 Salvage

Not open to the public yet. Nothing on this page can be ordered, and no audit is sold.