How AI Helps Real Estate Appraisers
Appraisers spend more time writing reports and gathering data than inspecting. 12² builds narrative templates, comp organization and an order tracker around the appraiser's report software.
Appraisal Report Drafting Desk · From $2,500 + $249/mo, by team size · proposed estimate · It says it is an automated assistant whenever it talks to someone directly, and your team reviews what it drafts before it goes out.
Ai for real estate appraisers: the short answer.
12² builds AI for real estate appraisers that takes on the routine work: drafting neighborhood and property narratives from your notes, organizing comparable-sale data, tracking orders and drafting revision responses. It runs inside the tools you already use. The appraiser still forms and signs the opinion of value.
Sources
- General office-writing evidence, not a study of this job: in an RCT, ChatGPT cut professional writing time 40% and raised quality (Noy & Zhang, Science 2023)news.mit.edu
Research figures above describe the cited studies, not results 12² promises. Results vary. Disclosures
Where the hours go now.
Neighborhood and property narratives
Appraisers spend more time writing reports and gathering data than inspecting.
Organizing comparable-sale data into the appraiser's format
The same requests arrive all day, often when nobody is free to answer.
Orders and due dates
The dates and records live in inboxes, spreadsheets and people's heads.
What it handles, and what it never does.
What it handles
- Neighborhood and property narrativesIt drafts neighborhood and property narratives from the appraiser's notes.
- Organizing comparable-sale data into the appraiser's formatIt organizes comparable-sale data into the appraiser's format.
- Orders and due datesIt tracks orders and due dates.
- Drafting revision-request responsesIt drafts revision-request responses for review.
- Hand-off to your teamAnything that needs a person goes to the right person, with the details attached.
What it never does
- Make up a price or a factIt works only from the documents, records and price lists you give it. Anything it can't find goes to your team.
- Promise a resultQuestions about outcomes go to the person who does the work.
- Pretend to be a personIt says it is an automated assistant whenever it talks to someone directly.
- Send anything on its ownDrafts wait for your team's approval before anything goes out.
Built and tested on your own work.
Before handoff, we run your build on your own real examples and fix anything that misses.
- Tested on your own workBefore handoff, we run your build on your own real examples and fix anything that misses.
- Retainer, then balance on deliveryRetainer up front. Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass.
- Fixed price, scope and timelineAll three in writing before work starts. The timeline is set in your quote.
- What 12² buildsNarrative templates, comp organization and an order tracker around the appraiser's report software.
- How it connectsWe confirm how it connects to your report software on the first call and write it into your quote.
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From $2,500 + $249/moSetup + monthly, by size. The monthly fee covers monitoring, fixes and re-tests for your package as your templates, documents and staff change. AI and software usage is billed at cost. Proposed starting estimates by team size, not fixed prices; the final price is in a written quote.
- Small: Small office (1-10 staff)From $2,500 + $249/mo. The core build for 1-10 staff: narrative templates, comp organization and an order tracker around the appraiser's report software. Proposed estimate. Small tier; monthly covers hosting, monitoring and fixes.
- Mid-size: Growing office (11-50 staff)From $6,500 + $549/mo. Everything in Small office, for more users, inboxes and calendars, with hand-off rules set for each role. Proposed estimate. More users, locations or integrations.
- Enterprise: Multi-site / enterprise (50+ staff or multiple locations)From $15,000, custom quote. Everything in Growing office, across locations or departments, with system integrations and a security review scoped in your custom quote. Proposed estimate floor; scope, integrations and security review set the final number. No cap.
- Retainer up front Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass. Scope, price and timeline are agreed in writing before work starts.
- You own itThe accounts, scripts, templates and data sit in your name. You can leave at any time.
- Compliance and dataUSPAP and lender rules: the appraiser owns the value opinion and every statement in the report; no AI value conclusions.
- Not professional adviceListings, ads and tenant messages must follow the Fair Housing Act and state license law, and your licensed agents review every one before it goes out. 12² builds software and automations. It is not a licensed professional in your field, and your team makes every professional decision. Disclosures
Straight answers.
Does AI value the property?
No. The appraiser forms the opinion of value.
How does payment work?
Retainer up front. Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass.
How long does it take?
Timelines are set per project in the quote, after we see your systems and volume.
Are these prices final?
No. They are proposed starting estimates. You get a written custom quote after a short scoping call.
Tell us how you handle neighborhood and property narratives now.
A few lines is enough. If it's a fit we'll say so, and if it isn't we'll tell you why.
- You'll hear back within one business day12² reads your note and replies about your project.
- A free 20-minute callHow the work runs now, what gets missed, and what your team needs from it.
- A fixed quoteYour size, scope, date and price in writing before any work starts.
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