The day-to-day flow is short on purpose. Drop your report on the page. Confirm the rule sets we suggest. Pay $25 and the check runs — and you get your Evaluation Report: a clear list of what needs fixing, with plain-language guidance, ready to download as a PDF.
Three steps from your file to an Evaluation Report. Each step below describes what you see on the screen.
Drag your appraisal report onto the page — one file, the PDF your form-fill software produces. North Star reads the loan program, state, and property type from it to work out which rules apply.
Your file is read only to run the check. Nothing is published, and you can delete your uploaded file any time within the retention window.
North Star suggests the rule sets that apply — based on the loan program, state, and property type it read from your file — and pre-checks them for you. Use the suggestions as-is, or adjust which rule sets to check against. Sort by how serious each one is, filter by rule set, and open any rule to see what it checks and where it comes from.
This step is free, and nothing runs yet. You decide which rules the check uses before it runs.
You're always in control of which rules the check runs against.
Pay $25 and North Star checks your report against every rule that applies. If it passes everything, you get a clean report that says so — dated, and yours to keep. Otherwise you get a ranked list of what to fix, each with a plain-language note and the rule it comes from, ready to download as a PDF.
Evaluate is a check, not a permanent record — there's nothing sealed to verify later.
From a single check, you get one thing — your Evaluation Report — in two forms:
North Star shows your results right away, with a plain note on each one, how serious it is, and how to fix it. Work through them in priority order, fix what needs fixing, and run the check again as needed. Each run gives you a fresh Evaluation Report.
Download a clean Evaluation Report with every result and the fixes ranked by priority. Email it to your client, save it with your file, or print it. See an example here.
Evaluate is a check, not a permanent record. The Evaluation Report is your answer to act on — there's nothing sealed to verify later. When you need a permanent, verifiable record, use Assemble.
With a check, you already have your own copy of the file in your shop's system. So we hold your uploaded file only as long as we need it. 90 days from upload, and you can delete any uploaded file at any time within that window.
Two AI-assisted steps help North Star read your file so the right rules run. You confirm what they find before the check runs — you're always in control.
North Star reads your uploaded report — the loan program, state, and property type — and suggests which rule sets apply. You confirm the list, or adjust it, before anything runs.
The suggestion is a starting point, not a decision. You always pick the rules the check runs against.
To read your report, North Star pulls the text out of your PDF — including OCR for scanned or image-only files, so a photographed or flattened report still works.
The details it extracts are what the rule suggestion draws on, so the check knows which program and property type it's looking at.
Looking for AI-drafted report narrative — draft paragraphs for each section, and a USPAP report addendum? That's part of Assemble, where you build the workfile itself.
The AI runs on your own provider key when you add one — Anthropic today, with more providers rolling out — and that usage bills straight to you, with no surcharge. Without a key, North Star uses its own and adds a small per-call surcharge, always shown before you're charged.
The check, described above, runs a report you've already finished against the rule sets. Assemble goes a step further: build your workfile inside North Star, with help collecting your source documents from your email and computer, and every piece witnessed as it comes in — from the first document to your final sign-off.
Assemble is what North Star was built for — what most appraisers reach for day-to-day. It's live now, at $99 per assignment.
North Star covers Washington and Oregon appraisers today. Sign up and run your first check for $25.
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