About ZeroPop
Built by collectors.
Every grade shows its work.
ZeroPop is an AI card grading scanner for iOS, Android, and the web. We built it because every other grading tool we tried either gave us a vague single grade with no breakdown, or stopped at the prediction without telling us whether the card was actually worth submitting.
The founders
Two collectors. One app.
ZeroPop is built by two people who scan their own cards every week and argue about centering over dinner. We pulled ourselves from the ZP Set 2026 so you know who you are dealing with.
No. 001 · Co-founder
Scott Hanlon
Product, engineering, and the occasional card show.
No. 002 · Co-founder
Cary Ciccone
Product, engineering, and the occasional card show.
What we do
Every card you scan gets four sub-grades on a 1 to 10 scale (corners, edges, surface, and centering) from AI vision models that run in the cloud. On top of those sub-grades we estimate PSA, BGS, and CGC grades with confidence scores, map every defect to the card zone where it lives, detect 20+ variants (1st Edition, Alt Art, Prizm, etc.), and track your collection value over time against market prices: TCGplayer data for trading card games and eBay sold auctions we record ourselves for sports and non-sport cards.
How we stay accurate
We do not publish an accuracy percentage against PSA, because we have not run the study that would earn one. Instead, every grade shows its work: the photos it was read from with the measured region drawn on them, a close-up of each corner, every recorded defect, and the reasoning behind each sub-grade, so you can check the call yourself. We re-check real scans regularly and ship fixes when an audit finds a mistake. When we're unsure about a prediction, we say so.
Every article on our blog is written by someone who actively collects and grades cards, not a freelance SEO writer with no stake in the outcome. We show our work, include specific card numbers and real sale comps, and update posts when the market moves.
Editorial team
The people behind the grading research and the blog.
Marcus Reeves
Lead Grading Editor, ZeroPop
Marcus has been collecting and grading trading cards since the late 1990s, with a focus on Pokemon, vintage baseball, and modern basketball. He leads ZeroPop's grading research, runs the editorial team's PSA, BGS, and CGC submission tests, and writes the cost and turnaround tracking that powers the app's ROI calculator.
ZeroPop Editorial
Editorial Team, ZeroPop
The ZeroPop Editorial team is a group of collectors, graders, and machine-learning engineers who have built the AI grading stack used by thousands of collectors. We test every major TCG release, submit thousands of cards to PSA, BGS, and CGC every year, and publish grading research grounded in real submission data, not speculation.
Ready to grade your cards?
ZeroPop is free to start, in your browser or on your phone. Scan any trading card and get instant sub-grades and PSA/BGS/CGC estimates.
No account · No credit card · Works in your browser
