Art Capital · Independent Network
The appraiser network
Custom sneakers became an asset class before anyone showed up to appraise them. The Heat Chart runs the provenance ledger and the market data — what the program needs now is independent, USPAP-credentialed signaturesthat lenders, insurers, and the IRS will accept. That independence is the whole point: it can't come from us, so it comes from you.
For appraisers
An unclaimed specialty
There is no established appraisal practice for one-of-one custom sneakers and wearable art. The market exists — verified sales, collectors, lending interest — but the credentialed specialist doesn't. First appraisers in own the niche.
The only dataset
Every engagement starts from a Portfolio Statement: catalogued works, full provenance chains, verified sales with evidence, disclosed consignments, live bid books, and our published estimate methodology — machine-readable through the public API. You bring USPAP; we bring comps nobody else has.
Clients routed to you
Artists and collectors pursuing loans, insurance scheduling, estates, or donations get referred out of the platform to network appraisers. You set your own fees and terms; we never touch your conclusions.
Looking for: current USPAP (15-hour course + updates) and a designation — or active progress toward one — with ISA, AAA, or ASA in personal property. Sneaker-culture fluency is a plus we can supplement; appraisal discipline we cannot.
Independence, in writing
- ■Network appraisers are independent professionals — never platform employees, never paid contingent on values.
- ■The platform operates the marketplace and earns fees on it. That interest is disclosed to you and belongs in your report's disclosure section.
- ■Lending appraisals are routed to the network exclusively. The house never signs valuation paper supporting its own or its members' financing.
- ■Your conclusions are yours. We supply records and market data; we never see a draft before the client does.
For members & institutions
Need a formal appraisal — for a loan, insurance schedule, estate, or donation? Start with your Portfolio Statement, then ask the administration for a network introduction. Lenders and insurers evaluating the program: the underlying ledger is machine-readable through the public API, and the program's full framework lives at /art-capital.
Join the network
The Heat Chart is not an appraisal firm and does not direct, review, or guarantee network appraisers' conclusions. HC Value Estimates remain informational market data, not appraisals.