About

The Story Behind HitScanTCG

Built by a collector and developer who wanted to make pack openings better for everyone.

Born from the Stream

Every Pokémon TCG streamer knows the problem: you pull a card, your viewers ask "what's that worth?" and you have to pause, look it up, and break the flow. Over and over, pack after pack.

HitScanTCG was built to eliminate that friction entirely. Hold a card up to your camera and the AI identifies it instantly — card name, set, rarity, and live market price appear on your stream overlay in seconds. No manual lookups. No broken momentum. Just pure pack-opening excitement.

What started as a personal project grew into a patent-pending system with a two-stage multimodal AI pipeline, a 31,000+ card offline database, and a purpose-built streaming overlay that rivals professional broadcast graphics.

Patent Pending

Cutting-Edge Technology

A provisional patent has been filed covering the novel technical innovations that power HitScanTCG.

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Two-Stage Multimodal AI with Visual Verification

First AI inference identifies the card, second inference visually verifies against database reference images using blended confidence scoring.

02

Intelligent Multi-Signal Scan Triggering

Five independent image checks — stability, edges, color, scene change, and motion detection — eliminate false triggers.

03

AI-Driven Hand-Holding Verification

AI verification ensures cards must be actively held by a human hand, rejecting flat or background cards.

04

Suffix-Aware Card Matching

Era-specific suffix rules (ex vs EX vs GX vs V) encoded into the matching algorithm prevent cross-era misidentification.

05

Collector-Number Fast Path

When a unique collector number is detected, HitScan can confirm the card instantly with built-in safety checks.

06

Low-Latency Camera Engine

Proprietary frame capture delivers under 100ms latency, even on wireless and network cameras.

Archit Gubiligari

Archit Gubiligari

Sammamish, Washington

Founder & Developer

Developer, Pokémon TCG collector, and AI enthusiast. Built HitScanTCG to solve a problem he experienced firsthand during pack-opening streams — combining a lifelong passion for collecting with software engineering to give every streamer instant card identification and real-time pricing at their fingertips.

The Vision

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Beyond Pokémon

Expanding to Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece TCG, and more. The AI pipeline is game-agnostic by design.

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Cloud & Mobile

A cloud-hosted version that works directly from your phone, no desktop setup required. Scan cards anywhere.

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Retail Integration

Card shop inventory scanning, collection management, and portfolio tracking for serious collectors and businesses.

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