ALT turns physical collections into private, governed asset accounts. It keeps evidence, identity, custody, rights, market state, value, liquidity and disposition separately traceable rather than forcing an instant AI answer. Media can enter as durable evidence, then move through observation, description, research and candidate comparison under explicit evidence and permission rules.
Photos, receipts, provenance, expert opinions, market asks, executed sales, condition changes, custody events and appraisal or insurance requirements do not all support the same conclusion. The failure is letting one source silently become permission for every downstream claim.
The Alternative Asset Account preserves object identity, evidence, observed condition, custody, rights and restrictions, source quality, market observations, value lane, liquidity and disposition as separate but connected state. A photo can support an observation without automatically proving identity, authenticity, value or authority to sell.
Private media enters as durable evidence and can move through versioned observation, description, search planning and candidate-comparison states. Category-native intelligence can inform the route, while evidence and permission rules determine what may actually move forward.
Each item below is deliberately narrower than a product-readiness or superiority claim.
ALT is deployed to protected Cloudflare Workers staging with Cloudflare Access and real private-media persistence, so the current evidence body is no longer only a reconstructed candidate or offline specification.
The current Supabase/PostgreSQL 17.6 staging database contains 70 public tables, all RLS-enabled, 78 row-level security policies, 13 views and 61 public/private application functions.
Private media is represented as durable evidence with separate versioned downstream states so an image, generated description, research result or market candidate cannot silently inherit the authority of another evidence class.
Current engineering is focused on the durable media-to-inference path and on evaluating multimodal models for observation completeness, unsupported-claim restraint, latency, throughput and cost before automated outputs are permitted to travel into later research, candidate or value states.
It does not claim final authenticity, appraisal authority, insurance coverage, lending eligibility, investment advice, universal valuation accuracy, completed automated multimodal processing, or that a market observation can silently become identity, expert or disposition authority.
ALT already has a protected live account, governed PostgreSQL state, private evidence persistence and versioned downstream evidence surfaces. Selectively scoped paid pilots remain possible where an auction house, dealer, collector, collector network or other asset operator brings a concrete use case that can be bounded to the current evidence, permissions and success criteria.