Product Roadmap
Where CIQ is going.
V1 is live. The financial operating system for serious card sellers, in your browser today. Below is what's coming next: more features inside V1, then real product expansions where each version means CIQ became something different.
V1 · In Progress
Inside the financial OS
Features extending the live product without changing what it is. Grouped by the three loops a serious seller runs: how you capture cards, how you sell them, how you analyze the result. Plus continuous polish and listening to user feedback.
Capture
Card show quick capture
Draft mode for live shows. Log a card with price, photo, and a one-line note. Expand to a full wizard entry later at home.
Wizard duplicate detection
Get a warning if you already own a matching card when adding through the wizard. Already exists for spreadsheet imports, extending to single-card adds.
Photo crop tool
Auto-crop slab photos to center the card and trim slab edges. Crop on import or take a fresh photo and crop in-app.
Supply cost tracking
Track card supplies (sleeves, top loaders, penny sleeves) and shipping supplies (mailers, tape, label paper) so they hit your real P&L. Today's gap: $0.50 per shipment never makes it into cost basis.
Sell
eBay Lister
Optimized titles, HTML descriptions, listing templates per sport or type, bulk lister with fee preview, and bulk export. One umbrella feature replacing the manual workflow.
Analyze
Expanded portfolio dashboard
Composition by sport, set, grade, and player. Top players by ROI. Momentum indicators. Value chart over time.
Sold archive analytics
Best flips, worst flips, average hold time, hold-time vs ROI correlation, breakdowns by sport, set, and grade.
Set completion tracking
See which cards in any set you own and your completion percentage. Built on a comprehensive checklist database covering every set and parallel.
Future Versions
Where CIQ goes next
Each version below is a real product change, not a feature batch. We version when CIQ becomes something different.
V2
Category Expansion
Planned. CIQ for collectibles, plural.
Same financial OS, broader scope. Multi-category support across watches, sneakers, comics, memorabilia, art, and more. The categories are already in our taxonomy. V2 brings them to the product surface.
- Per-category wizard fields (watch movement, sneaker brand and size, comic grade, etc.)
- Per-category cost basis labels and entry flows
- Multi-category portfolio views and analytics
- Sports card UX preserved while new categories slot in cleanly
V3
eBay Discovery
Planned. The catalog and browse layer.
CIQ becomes the cleanest catalog in the hobby. Search any card, see what's for sale on eBay right now, see what it's actually selling for. The data layer the hobby has needed.
- eBay catalog ingestion across categories
- Title parsers per category (sports cards already shipped, others new)
- Search and browse pages by player, set, and team
- Public set pages with completion metrics and ownership badges
- eBay OAuth sync (gated on eBay API access approval)
V4
Market Intelligence
Future. Analytics on top of the catalog.
Once the catalog and price data exist, the intelligence layer follows. Tell users what to do with the data, not just what the data is.
- Price trend charts per card and parallel
- Pop reports across PSA, BGS, SGC, and CGC
- Grading ROI calculator (is it worth slabbing?)
- Hot list of cards gaining momentum
- Price alerts and weekly market digests
- Developer API with REST keys, query endpoints, and webhooks
Anti-Roadmap
The no list
Saying no is as important as saying yes. Most failed product roadmaps die from scope creep, not a shortage of features. These are traps we won't build.
AI grading
Every other app has it and it's wrong half the time. Trust over feature parity.
Card scanning and image recognition
Other tools own that workflow. We're the back office.
NFTs and digital collectibles
Cycle is over. Attention is elsewhere.
Marketplace functionality
eBay is the marketplace. We're the back office.
Auction tools and sniping
Out of focus for our user base.
Live breaks and streaming
Different product, different audience.
Social network features
Only after we have an audience that wants them.
Selling your data
Your collection, your costs, your sales. We never sell, license, or syndicate user data. We make money from subscriptions, period.
Spam upgrade prompts
No 'Upgrade Now!' modals. If you hit a tier limit, you'll see a single quiet message, not a marketing pop-up.
Shipping rough
Better to ship one feature that works than five that need fixes. We'd rather hold something back than push it broken.
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