--- title: About Hiconium — The Collectible-Car Price Authority description: "A private intelligence platform for collectible vehicles. Founded in Zürich, set up to record what an asset is worth on a given evening in a given city." canonical_url: https://hiconium.dev/about image: https://hiconium.dev/og/default.png --- > HICONIUM · Index: https://hiconium.dev/llms.txt · Every page: append `.md` or send `Accept: text/markdown`. > Path: [Home](https://hiconium.com/) › About > On this page: [A company set up to record what an asset is worth.](#a-company-set-up-to-record-what-an-asset-is-worth) · [Three products. One platform.](#three-products-one-platform) · [A small group, quietly disclosed.](#a-small-group-quietly-disclosed) · [What we hold.](#what-we-hold) · [A small team. A long view.](#a-small-team-a-long-view) · [Zürich.](#zürich) HICONIUM AG — About # A platform for the things that cannot easily be priced A Swiss intelligence platform for collectible vehicles. Pricing first, dealers as trust anchors, an editorial register the category has waited for. Place Zürich · CH Founded 2026 Team Small, senior Launch August 13, 2026 01 Origins ## A company set up to record what an asset is worth. The category has been buying on judgement for a century. The instrument that records the judgement is what Hiconium is building. HICONIUM AG is a Swiss stock corporation, registered in Zürich (CHE-253.791.128). The company exists to operate a single platform — the Hiconium platform — and the surrounding services that platform requires: pricing infrastructure, document intelligence, curated market access, and a quiet editorial layer that supports all of it. The thesis is straightforward. The market for things that cannot easily be priced is the largest market without a price. Cars are the first category. Yachts, jets, watches, vineyards, and design objects with documented authorship will follow. The infrastructure rhymes; the categories rhyme. The work is deliberate and patient. The platform launches publicly on August 13, 2026; a small Founding Garage cohort enters earlier. We are based at Badenerstrasse 567 in Zürich, with photographers, experts, and partner dealers across Europe and an editorial workflow that runs out of the same address. Register Handelsregister Zürich · CHE-253.791.128 Address Badenerstrasse 567 · 8048 Zürich · Switzerland 02 Pillars ## Three products. One platform. Hiconium is composed of three intentionally separable surfaces. Each carries its own scope and its own warranties; together they form the platform. I Intelligence Pricing models, the HICON Score, the index. Data the platform produces, refines, and republishes. Without intelligence, the editorial is uninformed and membership has nothing to honour. II Membership A curated community of collectors, dealers, partners. Read, write, transact — under verified identity, scored by behaviour. Without membership, intelligence has no audience. III Editorial The Journal · MONUMENTA · Carte Blanche. Long-form context — model histories, condition standards, dealer profiles. Without editorial, intelligence is a spreadsheet. 03 House and group ## A small group, quietly disclosed. HICONIUM AG sits inside a small group of companies under common ownership. 1986 AG, also based in Zürich, operates as a dealer and distributor of collectible motor vehicles. HOF Manufaktur GmbH, in Sindelfingen, is a Mercedes-Benz refinement specialist. Where these affiliations are material to a transaction or piece of editorial, they are disclosed in line with our Terms of Service. Membership of the platform does not depend on the affiliation; pricing intelligence is computed independently of who is selling. Affiliates 1986 AG (Zürich) — dealer and distributor · HOF Manufaktur GmbH (Sindelfingen) — Mercedes-Benz refinement specialist 04 Values ## What we hold. 01 Calm before clever. A document, a price, a guarantee — these belong on plain pages with quiet typography. Anything louder is a tell. 02 A long horizon. The work compounds. We hold the same thesis we held in 2018; we are willing to hold it again in 2036. 03 Discretion as a feature. Members are quietly known. Their cars, their collections, their offers — handled like correspondence, not content. 04 Trust through process. Verified intermediaries. Scored bids. Documented inspections. The process is the protection. 05 Accuracy over volume. A small number of correct prices is worth more than a large number of approximate ones. We refuse the second. 06 Editorial voice. Every page reads like a publication, not a product. The market we serve has been buying on judgement for a century; the platform should match. 05 How we build ## A small team. A long view. The team is small and senior. Engineers, designers, editorial leads, market specialists. A network of photographers, experts, and partner dealers extends the company beyond the office. - We write the documentation before the code; the platform reads like its terms. - We weigh decisions in years, not quarters. The horizon is the design constraint. - We protect the member’s discretion above growth metrics. - We let the editorial voice carry the brand. The product is the conversation, not the colour. Hiring Senior engineers, editorial leads, classic-car specialists. Write to hello@hiconium.com with a short note and a link. 06 Correspondence ## Zürich. Hiconium is being built carefully and on a long horizon. If your work belongs near ours — as a member, a dealer, a partner, an editor, an engineer — write to us. Publisher HICONIUM AG Badenerstrasse 567 8048 Zürich · Switzerland Register Handelsregister Zürich CHE-253.791.128 Correspondence hello@hiconium.com press@hiconium.com privacy@hiconium.com Doors August 13, 2026 ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://hiconium.com/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"About","item":"https://hiconium.com/about"}]} ```