Case Study

PokeSee

TCG Investment Intelligence Platform

Overview

The Opportunity

The Pokemon TCG market moves in milliseconds. Rare cards appreciate hundreds of percent. But most collectors still rely on gut feeling, scattered eBay searches, and manual condition assessment.

PokeSee brings institutional-grade intelligence to individual collectors. AI grades your cards like a PSA expert. Multi-source pricing removes guesswork. The deal engine tells you exactly when to buy and what your ROI will be. Available on Android with iOS coming soon.

Experience

Inside the App

Scan & Grade

Scan & Grade

Photograph any card and get instant AI-powered quality grades with confidence scores.

Deal Analysis

Deal Analysis

Deal score, target buy price, negotiation range, and ROI scenarios at a glance.

Market Intelligence

Market Intelligence

Real-time opportunities across Price Drops, Price Rises, and Deal Score rankings.

Set Explorer

Set Explorer

Browse every Pokemon TCG set with card counts, release dates, and analytics.

Hits Tracker

Hits Tracker

Track trending Pokemon across all sets. Tap any to see deals and opportunities.

RAW/PSA Arbitrage

RAW/PSA Arbitrage

Find cards where raw price is close to graded price. Compare across PSA tiers.

Settings & AI Config

Settings & AI Config

Configure AI provider, manage credits, price alerts, and grading fee calculations.

Scan & Grade

Scan & Grade

Photograph any card and get instant AI-powered quality grades with confidence scores.

Deal Analysis

Deal Analysis

Deal score, target buy price, negotiation range, and ROI scenarios at a glance.

Market Intelligence

Market Intelligence

Real-time opportunities across Price Drops, Price Rises, and Deal Score rankings.

Set Explorer

Set Explorer

Browse every Pokemon TCG set with card counts, release dates, and analytics.

Hits Tracker

Hits Tracker

Track trending Pokemon across all sets. Tap any to see deals and opportunities.

RAW/PSA Arbitrage

RAW/PSA Arbitrage

Find cards where raw price is close to graded price. Compare across PSA tiers.

Settings & AI Config

Settings & AI Config

Configure AI provider, manage credits, price alerts, and grading fee calculations.

Core Features

AI Card Grading

Claude Sonnet and GPT-4o analyze card images for centering, edges, corners, and surface quality. Produces PSA-style grade estimates with confidence scores and condition flags.

Multi-Source Pricing

Real-time data from Pokemon Price Tracker, eBay sold listings, and PokeWallet. 4-tier pricing: Raw, PSA 8, PSA 9, PSA 10 with 7-day trends and liquidity scores.

Deal Scoring Engine

Weighted 0-100 score across 5 factors (price drop, PSA multiplier, condition, liquidity, market quality). Outputs BUY / NEGOTIATE / PASS with target buy prices and ROI scenarios.

Arbitrage Detection

Identifies buy-raw-grade-sell opportunities using real eBay PSA 9 sales data. Calculates spread, ROI percentage, and raw/PSA ratio across all grade tiers.

Smart Card Recognition

Point your camera at any Pokemon card for instant AI identification — name, set, number, rarity, variant. Choose to scan the back for full grading or analyze with front only.

Collection & Watchlist

Track your card collection with live market prices. Watchlist with price alerts. Background price monitoring via WorkManager/BGTaskScheduler.

Enterprise Cost Management

Admin module with 5-tab pricing dashboard: consumption pricing, fixed costs, actual usage analytics, cost calculator, and AI model comparison.

Shared Pool Architecture

5-layer pricing cache: request coalescing, view tracking, popularity-based TTLs, stale-while-revalidate, and predictive prefetching. One PT API call serves all users.

Intelligence

Deal Score Algorithm

A weighted composite score that distills complex market dynamics into a single actionable number.

Recent Price Drop25%
PSA Multiplier25%
Condition Quality20%
Liquidity Score15%
Market Data Quality15%

BUY

Score 70-100

NEGOTIATE

Score 45-69

PASS

Score 0-44

5

Data Sources

12

API Endpoints

4

Pricing Tiers

16

Tracked Operations

Aesthetic

Cyber Neon

Dark luxury meets trading terminal. A near-black canvas with cyan and purple neon accents creates urgency and focus.

Background

#030712

Surface

#111827

Elevated

#1F2937

Primary

#06B6D4

Secondary

#9333EA

Buy

#4ADE80

Sell

#EF4444

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