A Fragmented Market

The trading card market doesn’t share a common language. Each part of it grew up on its own, and each keeps its data its own way:

• Graders publish population reports, each in its own format.
• Marketplaces are silos, with their own listings, their own sales history and their own names for cards.
• Catalogs track cards and prices, but not the graded side of the market.

Nothing ties these together, because there’s no shared ID for a card. The same Charizard is one product in the catalog, several rows in PSA’s report (split by edition and finish), and whatever a seller managed to fit into an eBay title.

That leaves collectors doing the matching themselves, and never quite sure that two rows describe the same card, printed the same way.

One Record for Every Card

ATLS brings the market into one place. Every grader, catalog and marketplace keeps its own data; ATLS sits in the middle and joins them into a single record per card:

• the card itself and its price history
• how many copies have been graded, at every grade
• exactly which printing it is
• what graded copies are selling for right now

Solid lines are connected today. Dashed lines are the ones we haven’t connected yet.

Games

20+

Sets

2,975

Products

366k

Price changes kept

50M+

Graded printings

23k

Confirmed pairs

28k

Where We’re Headed

Fixing the data starts with a goal that’s simple to say and hard to do: unify the market in one place, and build the highest-quality record of it in the industry.

In practice, any graded card should lead you to its record, whether you type its name, a set code or a cert number, or just take a photo of the slab. From here, we’re working on:

• population data from more grading companies, paired into the same printings
• every game’s printings, including stamps, errors and language variants
• prices for non-English cards
• search from a photo of a slab
• keeping search right on the first try as the catalog grows

Built for the Whole Hobby

Collecting is a hobby we love. For it to keep growing, it has to be easier to find your way around, especially for people who are just getting started.

We’re not trying to replace the marketplaces or the graders. They built the foundations this hobby runs on: grading people trust, and places to buy and sell with confidence. ATLS builds on top of that work. It’s a neutral, cross-platform aggregator of listings, prices and data, built to grow this space and bring more people into it.

That works for everyone involved:

• Buyers don’t have to search platform by platform. One search shows the card, what it’s worth, and its listings across the marketplaces we cover.
• Sellers can list on the marketplace of their choice and know buyers will still find them, because ATLS shows their listing alongside the rest.
• Marketplaces get more buyers looking at their listings. Every listing on ATLS links straight back to the marketplace it’s on, and that’s where the sale happens.

We don’t sell placement. Our job is to show the market as it is, and to make it easier for more people to take part in it.

Why We Built ATLS

Anyone who collects graded cards knows the routine. You have a card in hand and three tabs open, trying to work out whether a listing on one site matches the population count on another, and whether either of them is the printing you actually own. We started ATLS because that work shouldn’t fall on collectors.

Our job is to keep one record per card that people can rely on: what the card is, how many exist at each grade, and what it sells for. Software does the reading and matching at scale. Our team checks the work, because a record is only useful if you can trust it.

We’re still early. Plenty of lines on the ecosystem map are dashed, and every one of them is on our list. If you’re a collector, a seller, a grader or a platform and you’d like to work with us, we’d love to hear from you.