Plain-language briefs
Describe the item, edition, condition, or budget the way you would explain it to another collector.
Automated discovery
Spot turns images, text, and URLs into focused searches across connected marketplaces and collecting sources.
Why it matters
An effective brief can include edition, printing, variant, condition, grading, signatures, budget, or exclusions. Spot translates that intent into searches for the enabled sources while keeping the original request understandable.
One-time searches are useful for active research. Watchdog is for the searches that deserve patience: save the brief, choose a schedule, and review new results when the market changes.
What it brings together
Describe the item, edition, condition, or budget the way you would explain it to another collector.
Start from the evidence you already have when the exact terminology is uncertain.
Search enabled marketplaces and specialist sources from one workflow. Book collectors can also manage wishlist monitoring and availability preferences from mobile.
Run important searches hourly, daily, or weekly and return when there is something worth reviewing.
In practice
A closer look
Spot is built for searches that do not fit neatly into a generic keyword box—and for the patience a rare item requires.
Put one hard-to-find item on watch.
Use Fetch for an immediate search or set up Watchdog to keep checking on a schedule.
Tell Spot what to find, or provide an image or listing URL to guide the search.
Choose what Spot should watch for, set a search schedule, and select email notifications.