▲ Built for the founder who landed here on purpose
The AI Mentor for Antique Dealers
You can spot a piece worth ten times the sticker price across a crowded estate sale, and the business side still runs on a booth rent, a handful of regulars, and whatever foot traffic wanders in.
A booth or shop earns only when someone walks past it, so a slow weekend or an off-season month is money you cannot make back.
▲ This is your week · let's name it
A booth or shop earns only when someone walks past it, so a slow weekend or an off-season month is money you cannot make back. You have real collectors and repeat buyers who love what you find, and most of them have no way to be notified when the next piece they'd want comes in, which means a standing want-list or an online sales channel never gets built because there is no system capturing that demand. And sourcing itself does not pause for the business side — estate sales, auctions, and pickers fill the week, so a fuller booth just means a longer week, not a more profitable one.
The fix is an online sales channel that lets a piece sell to a collector who never sets foot in your booth, a want-list and notification system that turns browsers into standing buyers, and an estate or consignment sourcing pipeline that adds inventory that does not depend on the next sale you happen to stumble on. That work never happens after a full week of sourcing and manning the booth, because there is no time left once the physical work is done. You need a senior operator who understands business growth, not just antiques, and an AI team that builds the systems while you keep finding the pieces.
▲ What lands in your hands
No filler. Just what you walk away with.
Your 24/7 AI Executive Council — Atlas, Aria, Nova, Phoenix & Diana
Five specialized AI agents trained on your inventory, your niche, and your buyer base — running the parts of the business that keep your income tied to who happens to walk by. They handle listing your best finds online so a piece can sell to a collector who never sets foot in your booth. They build a want-list and notification system that turns a browsing customer into a standing buyer. They turn your best finds and their history into content that brings new collectors to your booth and your online shop, and they help build the outreach that lands your first consignment or estate-buying relationships.
A weekly 1-on-1 with your fractional CMO
Every week you sit down with Italo, not a chatbot, to decide what actually grows the business next — an online channel worth building, a niche worth specializing in, your pricing on higher-value pieces, a want-list system worth setting up. You bring the eye. He brings the strategy that turns a booth into a business that earns beyond it.
Systems that outlast the booth hours
By day 90 you have an online sales channel, a want-list buyer base, an estate or consignment sourcing pipeline, and a collector outreach engine that all keep working whether the booth is open or not. This is the infrastructure a solo dealer rarely has the time or team to build alone, done alongside you instead of dumped on you as homework.
This is for you if
- Antique dealers selling booth-by-booth with no online channel or way to notify buyers of new finds
- Dealers with loyal collectors who want a want-list system instead of hoping they walk by again
- Antique dealers ready to build estate or consignment sourcing as a steady pipeline of inventory
- Anyone tired of a slow booth weekend meaning a slow month with no way to make it up
This is not for you if
- New dealers with no inventory or buyer base yet — get a season of real sales first, then systems have something to build on
- Anyone who wants a done-for-you agency running the whole operation while they stay passive — MentorMe is done-with-you, and your sourcing plus a few focused hours a week is the input
- Antique dealers looking for appraisal or authentication training — this builds the business around your eye, not the expertise itself
Founder —
You searched for this for a reason. You're carrying the whole thing yourself, and you're tired of being the only one who can do the work.
You don't have a discipline problem. You have a system problem — and no one ever handed you the system.
So here it is: 90 days, real systems, a fractional CMO in your corner and an AI clone doing the work you keep doing yourself. Your name stays on the win. We just rope in.
Start your plan. The first foothold is free.
— Italo
▲ Your move
Start your 90-day build.
Answer a few questions and walk away with a custom 90-day roadmap — free, no card, no call. Your first concrete step out of the chaos.
▲ Before you decide
The questions you're already asking.
I am sourcing and manning the booth all week. When would I build all this?
That is exactly why it works this way. The AI executive council does the building — the online listings, the want-list system, the collector outreach — in the hours you are not at an estate sale or behind the booth. Your weekly call with Italo is short and focused on the one or two decisions that matter. You are not adding a second job. You are getting leverage on the business you already run.
How is this different from listing on a marketplace app myself?
A marketplace app gives you a place to list, but no system for building a buyer base, a want-list, or a sourcing pipeline. MentorMe pairs a human fractional CMO with an AI executive council that builds your online channel, your want-list system, and your sourcing outreach with you. You walk away with working infrastructure you own, not just another listing account.
Can this really reduce how much I depend on booth foot traffic?
Yes — an online sales channel and a want-list notification system are usually the first things Italo works on with you, because they create demand that does not depend on anyone walking past your booth on a given day.
What does the founding investment cover?
It covers the full 90-day build: your custom AI clone and executive council trained on your business, all five AI agents, weekly 1-on-1 sessions with Italo as your fractional CMO, and every system we build together — online sales channel, want-list system, sourcing pipeline, and collector outreach. Founding seats are a one-time investment in the $5K to $11K range depending on the scope of your build, with no ongoing retainer required to keep what we build. There are 10 founding seats at this price so Italo's weekly attention stays real.
What happens after 90 days — do I keep the systems?
Everything we build is yours. The AI clone, the online channel, the want-list base, the sourcing pipeline — none of it disappears when the engagement ends. The goal is to hand you an antiques business that grows past one booth, so the next decision — a second booth, an online storefront, an expanded buyer list — is one you make from strength.
▲ Keep exploring
▲ The adventure is the climb