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At CenterCheck, we’re transforming how property owners, retail stores, and brokerages gain insights into store-level performance nationwide. Our platform delivers market-leading store-level sales data and customer intelligence that empower clients to develop a more productive real estate portfolio. We've developed a proprietary AI model that predicts store-level sales better than anyone else on the market. We provide industry-leading clarity for anyone with a stake in the physical world.

WRTH: The Agentic Commerce OS for Real World Assets At WRTH, we are building the world's first vertical AI-native commerce intelligence layer for physical assets. While e-commerce has Shopify, the $475B collectibles and alternative asset market still relies on fragmented spreadsheets and disconnected legacy tools. We are changing that. WRTH operates at the intersection of physical commerce, blockchain infrastructure, and agentic AI. We act as an Agentic Commerce Operating System (OS), deploying a vertical data layer that bridges the gap between real-world assets and on-chain records. Our platform replaces disjointed workflows with a unified system featuring real-time AI pricing intelligence (the WRTH Oracle), automated omni-channel cross-listing, and immutable provenance tracking via smart dual RFID/NFC tagging. We cure the "listing tax," eliminate overselling, and turn static physical inventory into intelligent digital assets. WRTH was built from lived experience, not theory. Our founders spent over 15 years in the trenches of the resale ecosystem, scaling seven-figure businesses from car trunks to top-tier digital storefronts and managing high-volume enterprise commerce. We built the platform we always needed. Today, WRTH is in an active closed beta, managing a committed pipeline of over $100M in Assets Under Management (AUM) alongside 35 B2B partners, including retail stores, event organizers, e-commerce power sellers, and brands. We are a lean, fast-moving pre-seed startup. Our culture reflects the hustle of our users and the precision of our technology—valuing autonomy, candid communication, and unconventional problem-solving. We are aggregating the transaction signals of the physical asset economy to build an unassailable intelligence flywheel. If you are a builder, advisor, or investor ready to shape the future of real-world asset commerce, join us. Let's build something WRTH it.

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