Clients request an appraisal on your site, under your brand. They upload titles, receipts, certificates, and photos, answer the questions the file needs, and book an inspection against your real availability. You never chase paperwork by email again.
Every uploaded document is read automatically. A title fills in the identifiers, a service record lands as a dated line item, a grading report carries its certificate number. Each fact in the file points back to the document it came from, and when two documents disagree, both values are kept for you to judge.
Market data comes to the file instead of you leaving it. Book values, live retail listings, sold collector-car auction results, and government safety, recall, and complaint records sit next to the item, each labeled with its source and pulled fresh when you ask.
The review workspace shows the whole file at once: every fact with its provenance, the documents, the market evidence, the photos, and your condition notes. You set the valuation with the evidence in front of you, not from memory across six browser tabs.
The finished appraisal renders as a professional PDF on your letterhead, with your logo, your certification, and every supporting document referenced. It is delivered to the client through their portal, and it reads like the work of a firm, because it is.
Invoices, deposits, and turnaround fees are part of the same flow, paid by card or PayPal. Commission splits pay your appraisers on their own schedules, and every dollar is tracked in an accounting spine that balances to the cent.
Desktop appraisals bill $150 to $300, physical inspections $300 to $600, and comprehensive or litigation work $600 to $1,500 and up. The practices that win are the ones that can take more of that work without the report quality slipping.
Agreed-value insurance wants a defensible appraisal refreshed every three to five years. That cadence is standing repeat business from every collector you serve.
Most auto policies carry an appraisal clause that lets a policyholder demand an independent appraisal. Your report is the instrument that moves the number.
Probate, asset splits, and disputes need a defensible fair-market or date-of-death value. Attorney-referred, lower volume, and the highest value per report.
Buyers and lenders need an independent opinion on assets the book values cover poorly. Fast turnarounds, clean reports, repeat institutional clients.
The site your clients visit, the portal they sign into, and the report they hand their insurer all carry your name and your letterhead. Veblen appears nowhere your reputation lives.
Your client list, your files, and your financial records live in a database that serves your practice alone. Self-hosted, it runs on your server. Fully hosted, it runs in a single-tenant stack the admin operates, and you can export it and move to your own server any day.
The franchise route costs five figures up front and takes your territory with it. Veblen licenses per deployment, drops at any renewal, and leaves your data yours on the way out.
