TAG Grading

Tyler and I have branched into the world of "graded" Pokémon cards. Most cards are graded by PSA and when we sent our first cards in to be graded I was floored — it takes a month to get your card back, and costs $25 a card to be graded. Apparently a person does all this voodoo to determine the grading. That seemed bonkers to me with all the advanced computer vision capabilities that exist. TAG is a different take using those capabilities. You get super detailed analysis of the card via computer vision analysis and the grading is quantitative. Cheaper as well, but still not as cheap as it should be.

I still think these services are missing two big things.

1. They should all offer a mobile app that allows you to apply a "light" computer vision model using your phones camera. Give me an estimate of the grading so I have an idea before I send it in. This could easily be part of the first process of getting a card graded.

2. They should be issuing an NFT for each card they grade. They all maintain a database of the cards they've graded and a link so you can see that info. But these databases could be completely open and tradable as NFTs. Plus it would be a simple add-on sale for $5 to mint an NFT to go with the grading process.