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Six cards. Forty benefits.
One thing to do today.

You pay thousands a year in card fees and lose most of the value back to credits you forget and transfers you make too early. Crino reads every issuer's terms, tracks what you actually hold, and tells you the single next move — with the evidence behind it.

$1,247
Sat unclaimed in one member's wallet on the day we looked. Every dollar of it was already paid for in annual fees.
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Separate expiry clocks across six premium cards. Monthly, quarterly, calendar year, cardmember year, and one that resets on a December statement.
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Balances in that wallet were too old to plan against. A number you haven't checked isn't a number you can act on.
The offer

A dashboard that answers four questions, and stays quiet otherwise.

Not a feed. Not a points blog. Four numbers that change only when something has actually changed for you.

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What's at risk

Every credit you've paid for, with the date it disappears. Mark the ones you'll never use and they stop counting — and stop nagging.

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Which card to use

A ranked spend order built from the actual category definitions, not the marketing. It knows your Gold excludes bakeries and your 4X grocery cap has $8,400 left.

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What to do next

One verdict at a time: transfer, wait, book, or do nothing. Each opens into the evidence, the alternatives we rejected, and what would change our mind.

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Whether your numbers are current

Balances age. We show you how old each one is, and we refuse to price a goal against a figure you haven't confirmed recently.

How we operate

Every fact comes from the issuer's own terms. Nothing is remembered, assumed, or rounded.

Most points advice is written from memory and repeated until it sounds true. Ours is read, dated, and filed — and when the terms don't say, we say so.

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We read the contract

Not the landing page. The offer terms, the cardmember agreement, the programme rules. That's where the 30-day selection window lives, and the carve-out that excludes rent from a rent card's own welcome bonus.

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We record where it came from

Every rate, cap and expiry is tied to the document it was read from and the date we read it. When a rule changes we can see exactly what we believed before, and why.

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We leave gaps empty

If a card's terms don't state something, the field stays blank and says so. A confident guess is worse than an admitted gap, because you'd act on it.

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We watch for changes and triage them

Most programme changes don't affect you. We check each one against what you actually hold, and only surface the ones that move something. You'll hear from us about twice a month.

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We show our work

Every verdict opens into the evidence, the options we considered and rejected, our confidence, and the sources with dates. You can disagree with us on the merits.

What we find

Five things the marketing page doesn't tell you.

All read from issuer terms. Each one changes a decision worth real money.

Chase is cutting its Hyatt transfer rate — but not on every card.

From October, Ultimate Rewards move to Hyatt at 4:3 on Sapphire Preferred and Ink Business Preferred. Both Sapphire Reserve cards keep 1:1. Which card holds your points decides what they're worth.

Chase transfer terms · read 12 Aug 2026

Delta's bonus lockouts run one way, so the order you apply in matters.

Holding a Reserve blocks the Gold and Platinum bonuses. Holding a Gold blocks neither. Take the cheaper cards first and you can collect all three; take the Reserve first and you've closed two doors.

Delta Gold, Platinum and Reserve offer terms · read 27–28 Aug 2026

A rent card's welcome bonus excludes rent.

The Bilt Palladium pays 50,000 points and elite status after $4,000 of spend — and its terms state that housing payments don't count toward it. The one thing the card exists for won't get you there.

Bilt Rewards Card Offer Terms · read 28 Aug 2026

Being told you're locked out of an Amex bonus is often wrong.

Amex decides eligibility during the application, and regularly issues offers that waive its own once-per-card rule. We'll show you the risk on your history — but we won't tell you it's settled, because it isn't.

Amex offer terms and current market research · Aug 2026

We will tell you to pay cash, hold your points, or skip the card — whenever that's the right answer.

  • We won't quote a price we can't verify. Some programmes only price live. For those we hand you a link, not a number we made up.
  • We won't tell you you're definitely eligible for a bonus the issuer decides at application. We'll tell you the risk instead.
  • We won't count a credit you'll never use toward what your card is worth.
  • We will say when a trip is better paid in cash. A system that can't say no isn't giving advice.
  • We will show you what would change our mind, so a verdict has a shelf life you can see.
  • We will correct ourselves in the open when a rule changes or we read something wrong.
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We're not paid by issuers, so the answer is never influenced by who pays us. If a card isn't worth its fee, we'll tell you to close it.

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