Replicost was started by appraisers and engineers who got tired of defending year-old cost numbers in court. Twelve years later, the platform powers cost-approach workflows for fee appraisers, assessors, insurance carriers, and PropTech across the United States.
The cost approach is the most defensible of the three approaches to value — and the worst-served by the tools the industry uses. Quarterly binders. Annual updates. Regional multipliers that lump San Francisco and rural Sonoma County together. No audit trail. No reproducibility. Cost numbers that opposing counsel can rightly attack as stale.
Replicost was founded on the bet that the cost approach deserved a modern data platform — daily-updated, ZIP-precise, audit-traceable, designed for the witness stand. We've been building toward that bet since 2014.
If a methodology can't be challenged, it doesn't belong in a courtroom. We publish ours. We respond to challenges. We update the methodology — publicly — when challenges hold up.
Every cost line in every report points to its underlying source and date. No "trust us, it's in the model."
Every report can be re-run as of its original date and return the same number. The audit trail survives the appraiser, the contract, and the company.
USPAP. IAAO. Daubert. Frye. We design around them — not around them.
If we don't have a customer case study, we don't invent one. If we're not SOC 2 certified, we don't claim to be. The platform earns trust slowly and on purpose.
Fee appraisers, assessors, adjusters, contractors — they're the ones who get cross-examined. The platform is built for them, not for the C-suite.
Replicost is built by a team of MAI-credentialed appraisers, IAAO-credentialed assessors, civil engineers, and software engineers. We hire heavily from the practitioner community — most of our product team has spent time on the witness stand themselves. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, see our careers page.
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