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GEMCRAFT ACCESS CODE: GEMCRAFTER
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GemCraft is open.
GemCraft and GemCentral are now open to collectors.
Bring your collection into GemCraft, get better answers about what you own, and step into GemCentral when you are ready to discover people, cards, events, and opportunities around it. If you already track your collection elsewhere, the importer can help you bring the whole thing across efficiently.
Two platforms. One collector ecosystem.
GemCraft × GemCentral
GemCraft is your private collection command center. Use the importer to bring across an existing collection export, or add cards by scan, deck list, photo, or manual entry. Organize them, explore pricing context, track sets, compare raw and graded information, use AI pre-grading and centering, and build a clearer picture of your collection. The Curio Cabinet also gives art prints, plushies, and other collectibles a place alongside your cards.
GemCentral is where that intelligence becomes social. Build your collector identity, explore listings, offers, trades, events, and Social Lounges, then connect with people who understand the hobby or want to learn.
Your first session in four simple steps
1. Import your collection. If you already use another portfolio-management platform, export your collection there and use GemCraft’s importer to bring the entire collection across. You can also add cards by scan, deck list, photo, or manual entry.
2. Get better answers. Explore pricing context, set progress, raw and graded information, AI pre-grading, centering, and the details that help you understand your next move.
3. Let The Architect help you move. Inside GemCraft, The Architect can help automate workflows, remember your session and preferences, surface useful notifications, and prepare collection information for faster decisions and transactions.
4. Cross into GemCentral. The Associate can help you discover Social Lounges, find and source cards, begin transactions, and connect with collectors who share your interests.
Both AI roles are designed to reduce friction while keeping your judgment at the center.
Built with collectors.
More than 20 outside testers brought real collections, devices, files, photos, and edge cases into the beta. We also completed independent security and performance testing. That work helped us find the pressure points, fix what mattered, and open with evidence instead of assumptions.
Grow with the ecosystem.
Grow with the ecosystem.
Auri marks the beginning. Auros represents expanding capability. Aurion is the fully realized form.
GemCraft has worked with three artists to develop the mascot line. Most recently, animator Mythallica brought the evolution of Auri, Auros, and Aurion to life. Each subscription tier has its own mascot, and you will be able to watch your mascot evolve as you move through the experience.
Become a Founding Member
Shiny Auri, the Guardian. The emerald founder finish.
The first 2,000 paid users will become GemCraft Founding Members. Founding Members are intended to receive permanent recognition, a Founding Member badge on their profile, a shiny mascot variant, eligibility for the Founding Members giveaway, and ongoing communication with me as the ecosystem grows.
A free trial alone does not secure Founding Member status. A paid membership must clear. Full eligibility, benefit, and official giveaway terms will be available in the launch experience.
Professional tools. Community economics.
We built GemCraft lean because professional-grade tools should not require professional-dealer overhead. Our intention is to keep the base tiers generous and competitive. If a power user needs unusually heavy access to a specific AI or tooling workflow, we prefer optional credit packs over raising the base price for everyone.
GemCentral is designed around a 0% GemCraft platform commission. External payment-provider fees and legal obligations still apply, but GemCraft does not need to take a percentage of each collector transaction to justify the ecosystem.
Welcome, Plugged Inn community.
GemCraft × Plugged Inn
If you are joining us through Plugged Inn, welcome. We are excited to have your community with us at launch.
The GemCraft Discord is where launch guidance, community conversations, feedback, and upcoming activations will live.
One final request
If GemCraft solves a problem you have felt or gives you a tool you wished existed, please share it with one collector today.
A launch can create attention. A community creates staying power.
Welcome to GemCraft.
Matt Taylor
Founder, GemCraft
GemCraft · Craft your edge.
