CardAuthentico

CardAuthentico is a trust-first, AI-native marketplace for trading sports
cards. We rebuilt the collector-to-collector experience around three things
social media groups can't offer: verified identity, escrowed money, and
intelligent search.

The sports-card market is worth billions, but the buying experience hasn't
changed in twenty years. Collectors get burned by counterfeit cards,
vanishing sellers, payment fraud, and disputes with no clear arbiter.
CardAuthentico was founded in 2024 by collectors who got tired of it.

How it works:

- KYC-verified onboarding. Every account — buyer or seller — passes through
our identity-verification partner before they can transact. Sellers go
through additional screening.
- AI-powered natural-language search. Describe what you want the way you'd
describe it to a friend — "Mahomes rookie autos under $2k" or "1990s
basketball inserts in graded condition" — and our AI assistant returns
matches across the catalog.
- Stripe escrow checkout. Buyer funds sit in escrow until the card arrives
and the 48-hour inspection window passes.
- Tracked shipping and 48-hour buyer protection on every order.
- 30-day human dispute resolution — fast and impartial, not algorithmic
reversals.

Built for collectors who refuse to wire money to an unverified social media
seller, flippers tired of eBay fees and chargebacks, and newcomers who'd
rather search a card in plain English than navigate 40 filter dropdowns.