About Card Business Playbooks

Books and tools for card businesses.

For shop owners, vendors, online sellers, breakers, and anyone turning a card hustle into a company that can pay for itself.

How we see it

Profit is what allows you to stay.

Profit pays the employee who knows every regular customer’s name. It pays the rent on the shop where kids play Pokémon on Saturday. It lets you take a chance on the weird collection somebody brings through the door, and it lets you make a mistake without wondering whether the mistake is going to kill the business.

So we write about True Cost, Contribution, inventory, channels, labor, and growth in the language card businesses actually use. Not to turn your shop into a fulfillment center. To give it enough room to stay the thing you wanted to build.

Protect what makes the hobby human. Build systems around everything else.
Ryan Gonzales

Founder and author

Ryan Gonzales

Five-time founder, two exits. Twenty years building products and companies. Sells, vendors, and collects. Built Pulltrader to run his own operation, then found out other people needed it too. Wrote Profit Aware.

Card Business Playbooks is the publishing side of that work.

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The launch list

Profit Aware is out Fall 2026.

Early access, launch pricing, new sections as they publish, and the worksheets as they open.