A binder for collectors

NinePocke The binder that rips with you.

Every card you pull, read and kept — Pokémon, sports, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Magic.

In development. One email when it opens.

Hear when it opens

The set you are finishing

Pocket by pocket

Page 1

Your collection, slabs and all.

A binder for collectors, built from photographs of your own cards.

Lay your cards down and photograph them, and the binder fills itself: each card read, matched and sorted as it lands. The chase cards and the commons share the same pages, because a set you are finishing is mostly commons.

Each card will be shown in your own photograph rather than a stock image, so the binder looks like the cards you actually hold.

  • The set you are finishing

    Save a set as a group once. Every card of it you own, and every one you scan later, lands in it.

  • The illustrators you follow

    The artist’s credit is read off the front of each card wherever it is printed, so an illustrator’s run will be one group away.

  • The slabs you keep

    Graded cards will sit in the binder beside the raw ones, each with its full condition audit attached.

One photograph. Nine cards.

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

  1. 01

    Lay your pulls down.

    A rough overlay shows roughly where they go. It is guidance, never alignment.

  2. 02

    Nine cards come back read.

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

  3. 03

    Sorted into your groups.

    Every group you have set up sorts the cards as they land, without filing anything by hand.

Built and running, in private testing.

Set it once. It sorts your whole catalogue.

Choose what a group holds — a player, a set, a year, any mix — and it saves across your whole catalogue: every card you own now, and every one you scan later.

A group is not a folder you drag cards into. It is a setting, and saving one reaches back through everything you have already catalogued.

Which is what lets a group be a story instead of a filter: a set you are finishing, 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.

  • Every Charizard I own

    Subject includes Charizard

  • The 1999 Base Set run

    Year 1999 and Set Base Set

  • Every Griffey I own

    Subject includes Griffey

  • Middle school, 1996–1998

    Year 1996, 1997 or 1998

Shingan™

Planned · in development

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. It will stay with the card in your binder.

  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. A QR code on the slab will open that 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

How a grade will be made.

Shingan will show its work: who handled the card, what was checked, and by whom.

  1. A named auditor

    Every audit will say who handled the card, and you will be able to follow it stage by stage.

  2. Checked by automation, decided by people

    Shingan’s automation will gut-check every one of the auditor’s findings. It will never decide the grade.

  3. A second auditor

    A second auditor will check the work before the card’s return.

  4. One process for everyone

    Every auditor will follow the same workflow and the same training, so a grade will not depend on whose desk the card landed on.

  5. The report travels with the slab

    The QR code on the slab will open the full audit, photographs and all, for anyone holding it.

In development. Nothing on this page can be ordered, and no audit is sold.

See an example full audit