About Fair Market Valuations™

Built by appraisers,
for appraisers.

Built around USPAP Standards 7 & 8 and CUSPAP Standards 6 & 7 — not retrofitted to them. Appraisers who use this tool produce reports that meet the Standards by default, because the workflow itself enforces them.

12+

Years in equipment appraisal

CPPA

Certified Personal Property Appraiser

Specializations: Heavy Equipment, Industrial Machinery, Antique Vehicles

The Origin

From the
field up.

Chris Ireton, CPPA, spent over twelve years in the trenches of heavy equipment, industrial machinery, and antique vehicle appraisal — working auction floors, secondhand markets, and the full range of valuation scenarios the industry throws at credentialed appraisers.

At a previous firm, Chris built a series of workflow automations that transformed how the team operated. The productivity gains were unmeasurable. That experience lit a fire: if the right automation could do that for one firm, what could the right platform do for an industry?

Fair Market Valuations is the answer to that question.

"Each automation multiplied productivity by an amount I couldn't put a number on. I've been chasing those multiples of efficiency ever since."

— Chris Ireton, CPPA · Founder, Fair Market Valuations™

The Problem

Appraisers deserve
better tools.

The industry has been doing it the hard way for too long. Multiple platforms, multiple screens, fragmented records — all for work that should be streamlined and defensible by default.

Fragmented Workflow

Jumping between platforms, dedicated devices, and screens just to complete the basic parts of a job. Comp hunting, logging, and report assembly spread across systems that don't talk to each other.

No Compliance Architecture

USPAP and CUSPAP compliance was being managed separately from the work itself — an afterthought layer on top of whatever workflow an appraiser happened to use. That's backwards.

Indefensible Outputs

Reports that couldn't withstand serious objection. No audit trail, no documented rationale, no structured comp record. When someone challenged a value, there was nothing to point to.

Industry-Wide Gap

Canada's equipment appraisal market — sparse, underserved, and without a credible scalable platform. No tool existed that was purpose-built around the standards that govern this profession.

How It's Built

Engineered around
the standards.

Every workflow gate, disclosure field, and compliance checkpoint is a first-class part of the platform — not a checkbox bolted on afterward. Appraisers can't sign a report until it meets the requirements. That's not a limitation. That's the product.

7/8

USPAP Standards 7 & 8

Development and reporting for personal property. Comp selection, condition assessment, and rationale documentation are all appraiser-controlled. The platform computes; the appraiser decides.

6/7

CUSPAP Standards 6 & 7

Canadian machinery & equipment standards built in alongside USPAP. Scope of work, disclosures, and the certification page adapt to the standards basis you select for each assignment.

∑

Complete Workfile

Each signed report ships as a zip containing the sealed PDF, all comps, value reasoning, disclosures, and signed documents — an audit-ready package retained for the longer of USPAP (5 yr) and CUSPAP (6 yr).

The Vision

Clarity for
the whole
industry.

The goal was never just to make appraisers faster — though they are. It was to make appraisal work repeatable, predictable, and obvious to explain to anyone who looks at it.

When a value is challenged by a lender, a court, or a client, the appraiser who used this platform has a complete, structured, timestamped record of every decision they made. That's not luck. That's architecture.

The bigger ambition is industry-wide: a better general understanding of how markets shape values and how values are conceived. Equipment appraisal is a discipline that deserves the same rigor, transparency, and credibility as any other valuation profession.

Appraisers who use this tool become more efficient, produce more concise and repeatable outputs, and have stronger credibility in anything that's objected to.

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From thefield up.

Appraisers deservebetter tools.

Engineered aroundthe standards.

Clarity forthe wholeindustry.