One photo. Six categories. Same engine.
Each panel below is what Looking Glass produces from a single photograph. No typing. No category selection. The engine reads the piece and fills its category’s schema.
The same fields, done two ways.
What you type, by hand
- 01Set
- 02Year
- 03Card number
- 04Player / subject
- 05Variant
- 06Grade
- 07Certification number
- 08Population
- 09Provenance
Eight to twelve minutes per piece. Multiplied by your collection size.
What the engine produced
- SetFleer
- Year1986–87
- Card number57
- Player / subjectMichael Jordan
- VariantBase · Rookie
- GradePSA 10 GEM MT
- Certification number24890132
- Population317
- ProvenanceGoldin · 2023
Roughly four seconds per piece. The schema fits the photo, automatically.
Three tiers. Zero ambiguity.
Once Looking Glass has extracted six attributes from the photo, the Comps engine can find true peers. Every comparable sale tagged on those same six axes, dated, source-weighted, and tiered. Perfect = all six match. Strong = most. Loose = direction only.
Authentication you can argue with.
Most authentication is opaque — a checkmark, a logo, a scan you have to trust. VAR is an attribute-by-attribute breakdown: print color, registration, font weight, holder profile, certification cross-check. Each signal is rendered with its own confidence and the underlying observation. You see the math.
- Per-attribute breakdownEvery signal scored individually, not bucketed
- Cross-source validationPSA / CGC / SGC databases reconciled in-line
- Shareable on the listingBuyers see the same VAR on a marketplace listing
- Print registration98% · within tolerance
- Color cast97% · OG print run
- Holder profile99% · PSA bracket consistent
- Cert verificationMatch · PSA · 24890132
- Population delta+2 in last 90 days
Appraisal-grade, on demand.
An AAR is what a serious estate would commission — a written, weighted, dated valuation built from comparable sales, condition, and market context. Vitrine generates one in seconds, with the underlying comps cited, the volatility shown, and the assumptions called out. Defensible enough for insurance; transparent enough for trade.
- Defensible valuationComps cited, weights shown, assumptions documented
- Date-stampedRe-issue on demand for insurance, estate, settlement
- Volatility-awareConfidence band reflects the comp dispersion
- Mid valuation$42,400
- Range$38,800 – $46,000
- Comps weighted23 sales · 18 mo lookback
- VolatilityLow · ±5.2%
- IssuedToday · valid 90 days
What the market is doing to your piece.
Pulse is the per-item sensor strip. Subscribe a piece and Pulse watches the relevant attribute lanes — grade-specific volume, parallel-specific price moves, auction spikes, comp drift. Quiet by default. Loud when the signal earns it.
- Per-attribute sensorsGrade, parallel, region — not whole-set noise
- Quiet by defaultOnly the signals you opted into reach you
- Movement-awareSpikes flagged with cause where we can identify it
- Volume12 sales · +33% vs trailing 90d
- Price drift+$4,800 mid · +6.0%
- Spread tighteningAsk–bid −$1,200
- Comparable high$96,000 · Goldin · 11d ago
- TriggerCause: parallel relisting cluster
Why the engine’s outputs hold up.
Looking Glass is a multi-pass extraction pipeline backed by Gemini Flash, OCR on grader holders, and per-attribute confidence scoring. Built so the answer is defensible, not just confident.
Three passes per photo: classify, detect overlays, extract fields. Each pass is independently scored and reconciled before the result lands.
PSA, CGC, SGC, BGS, JSA labels parsed directly off the holder. Cert numbers cross-checked against grader databases in-line.
Every extracted field carries its own confidence score. Below threshold, we ask. Above threshold, we commit and show the work.
38 per-category schemas with attribute-level type checks. The engine fits the photo to the schema, not the other way around.
One piece
gets you started.
No bulk import. No spreadsheet migration. No setup wizard. Catalog one piece and the rest follows.
iOS or Android. Free. No login wall — start with one piece if you want.
Camera identifies the category. Schema appears. Fields auto-fill from card backs, dial markings, ISBN, certs.
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