The hobby has long deserved institutional-grade tooling, so we decided to build it.

In 2019, I was putting together a Portland Trail Blazers themed Christmas gift for my younger brother. A binder of autographs, jersey cards, short prints, and rookies from every era of the franchise. I bought a few junk wax packs to dig through for vintage, and I was hooked. Within six months I had a vault of my own and a problem I hadn't realized was a problem. I had no idea what I owned, what it was worth, or whether I was making any money on the cards I was selling.

I tried every tool I could find. None of them were built for someone who took the hobby seriously. They were toys, or scrapers, or scanner apps that called Silver Prizms base. I patched the gaps with spreadsheets that fell apart the moment I stopped maintaining them.

I spent the last decade as a senior leader at mid-size technology companies in New York, in customer success and revenue operations roles where I owned full P and L for the post-sale org. That work put me in the room with product and engineering on every release, every roadmap, every painful tradeoff between what users wanted and what the team could actually ship. I have been the one closing the loop between customers and product for ten years, and I know what a real product feels like from the inside.

I also ran a small online consignment business called The Cellar Sellers, selling my own cards and handling consignment for people clearing out collections. I started in spreadsheets, moved to Airtable, and even then almost everything was manual. I wasn't tracking supplies. I had no real margin picture on bulk buys. Reporting to consignors meant pulling numbers from three places and reformatting them every time. Cataloging and photography were the parts I liked. Listing and identification took several minutes per card and never got faster. That experience is why reporting and consignment are core to SlabIQ rather than features bolted on later.

The SlabIQ team is small and senior. We've built and shipped software at companies you know, and that's why VisionIQ identifies cards down to the parallel, including the ones the other apps get wrong. The knowledge base is real data infrastructure, not scraped web results. Reporting goes deep into P and L because anyone running this seriously needs to know whether they are actually making money. Consignment is a first-class feature with client portal access, because the alternative is the awkward "where are we at" text every two weeks.

This is SlabIQ. This is institutional-grade tooling in your pocket.