chck.ai started inside IAC's innovation incubator as Shoebox, a consumer app that let collectors identify, catalog, and pre-grade cards from their phones. That technology has become the AI grading infrastructure behind marketplaces, dealers, auction houses, and enterprise partners.
Get the chck.ai appchck.ai began inside IAC's innovation incubator to solve one of collectibles' biggest inefficiencies: accurately assessing the physical condition of an asset using only a smartphone.
The first consumer product, Shoebox, gave collectors a simple way to identify, catalog, value, and pre-grade trading cards without mailing them to a traditional grading company. It proved that AI-powered condition analysis could dramatically reduce both cost and turnaround time.
As the platform matured, it became clear that the underlying computer vision engine had value far beyond a single consumer app. It could analyze condition across multiple asset categories, creating opportunities to serve marketplaces, dealers, auction houses, and enterprise partners.
That realization led to the evolution from Shoebox to chck.ai. In 2025, the company unified the consumer Shoebox experience under the chck.ai brand, reflecting its broader mission to become the intelligence layer behind digital commerce rather than a standalone consumer application.
chck.ai delivers AI-powered digital grading through proprietary computer vision that scans physical items from a smartphone and returns an instant condition assessment.
For trading cards, the comprehensive workflow captures eighteen guided images across multiple angles and lighting conditions to identify surface scratches, print lines, gloss loss, and edge wear. This multi-image approach provides the highest confidence available through smartphone-based digital grading.
Two images — front and back — deliver instant AI-powered condition insights with dramatically less friction. Perfect for high-speed decision making at card shows, on eBay, or while sorting inventory.
Collectors often need a quick answer before they need exhaustive analysis. Quick CHCK is designed for those moments — more cards evaluated in less time, with meaningful grading intelligence.
When greater certainty is required, users can seamlessly transition into the full eighteen-image comprehensive grading workflow for the highest confidence result.
Whether someone is buying, selling, consigning, lending against, or insuring a collectible, chck.ai provides the objective condition intelligence needed to increase trust, reduce friction, and enable faster transactions. From its origins as an incubated consumer app to its evolution into an enterprise AI grading platform, chck.ai is building the digital condition layer for the future of collectible commerce.
| Layer | What it does | How we do it |
|---|---|---|
Capture | Auto-frame, rotate, crop and normalize any card image. | On-device guidance + server-side vision cropping. |
Grade | Centering, corners, edges and surface — per BGS-style rules. | Multi-model AI pipeline with damage overlay detection. |
Value | Live market comps at Raw, PSA 9, BGS 9.5 and PSA 10. | Real-time integration with SportsCardsPro pricing data. |
Seal | Public certificate + registry link buyers can verify. | Signed, immutable report anchored to your account. |
Two tools for two moments. Quick CHCK to move fast. Full CHCK when it matters most.