CardFax Research
Whitepapers
Versioned, dated, citable technical documents. The method is published; the recipe stays proprietary. Every paper carries its terminology, its data-asset scale, its limitations, and its revision history — because citable sources have editions.
The Measured Read
Centering on the mobile pregrade stopped being an AI opinion: a bubble level made of geometry, a perspective warp, and a pixel measurement through the published standard — validated against a registered centering grade of 10, three runs identical to the digit.
The Blind Read
The Pregrade browser tool — architecturally unable to see the slab label — read a professionally graded card from listing photos and matched the label's grade: two subgrades exact, two within half a point, identical final 9.
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The Corner That Graded Sharp
A physically confirmed corner curl that every layer read as sharp: the measurement that found it in the scan (tip shadow 17.1 vs a 6 baseline, back mirror 0.4), the same-day MOSES 2.14.0 release that now looks for it, and the on-record correction.
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How to Grade Card Corners: The MOSES Methodology
The measured, auditable corner methodology: terminology, the five-stage pipeline, the published decimal scale and deduction structure, the CardFax Corner Reference Corpus (9,900+ labeled examinations), governance, limitations, and verification.
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The CardFax Registry: How to Verify a Graded Card
The companion verification methodology — how any grade issued under the CardFax standard is independently verifiable from its public record. Publishing here next; currently hosted on TradingCard360.
Read on TradingCard360 →Surface Defect Deductions
The two-dimension doctrine, defect taxonomy, the severity and stacking structure, structural damage caps — and the Manufacturing-Artifact Doctrine: press-era print dots deduct linearly and capped, so factory speckle never outweighs real damage.
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Edge Metrology
The Straightedge release: every edge's cut line traced at full resolution and measured against the line the factory intended — coverage, amplitude, chips, and fibers, in shadow mode on every card graded. Answers "how much of this edge is rough?" with a number.
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In preparation
Companion methodologies: Centering
The remaining quadrants of the 4Q receive the same treatment — versioned papers with published methods and proprietary implementations — as the doctrine record grows.