Machete Cards
One ledger for card dealers, from the scan to the margin
Back-office software for card dealers: scan a stack, price it against the market, label it, and see your margin.
machetecards.com- The situation
- Card dealers run their business across a phone camera roll, a pricing site, a spreadsheet and a marketplace account. Every card gets typed in more than once, and nobody can say what a show weekend actually made.
- The constraint
- Dealers work standing at a table with a line of customers. Anything slower than a glance loses the deal, and anything that can't export its data won't be trusted with a dealer's inventory.
- Why this approach
- Generic inventory tools don't know what a card is; collector apps don't know what a margin is. Machete Cards treats card identity, market price and cost basis as one record, so the ledger stays true from the scan to the sale.
What it does
- Scan a stack of cards into inventory with AI card recognition and a confirm-first review
- Price each card against the market, with condition-aware suggestions the dealer can override
- Print QR price labels and log deals at the show table
- See margin by day or month across every channel
How it’s built
- Card identity, cost basis and market price kept on one record instead of three systems
- AI used only where it earns its place (reading the card), with a human confirming every match
- Full CSV and JSON export on every plan, so the dealer always owns their data
AI card recognition · Market price data · QR labels · Stripe subscriptions
Where it stands
Live at machetecards.com as a subscription product for dealers, with a 7-day free trial. Shipyard Labs designs, builds and operates it.
A production SaaS that takes a dealer from a pile of cards to a priced, labeled, tracked inventory in one tool.
Next: Deeper show-day tooling, so the table, the ledger and the payout reconcile without a spreadsheet.
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