Alexandra and Marcus met at a post-auction dinner in 2019, seated next to each other by coincidence and bonded by frustration. They had both, that same evening, missed works they had desperately wanted — not because they were outbid at auction, but because they simply hadn't known the works were available until too late.

The problem wasn't lack of inventory — it was lack of infrastructure. Works moved through networks of personal relationships, whispered offers, and handshake deals. If you weren't already inside those networks, you were excluded. And even if you were, the friction was enormous: spreadsheets, individual emails, disconnected conversations.

TAM is their answer to that dinner table frustration. A single, curated, private-by-design platform where collectors and advisors can surface what they have, express what they want, and make connections that previously required decades of relationship building — all without the theater of a public auction.