Comparison · ACI
Keep ACI. Add the office it doesn't include.
ACI is great at what it does — writing and delivering the report. It was never built to run the business around the reports. Appraisal Ally is. Use both. Pay one fair price for the layer in between.
No card to join · No forms migration · First access this summer.
Process
Pending
2Leads — drag onto a stage to convert →
5540 Copper Ridge Dr
Colorado Springs, CO
128 Aspen Grove Ln
Monument, CO
Research & File Creation
24127 Maple Ridge Dr
Colorado Springs, CO
892 Birchwood Ln
Monument, CO
Pick Comps
39820 Antelope Ridge Dr
Falcon, CO
215 Sycamore St
Colorado Springs, CO
3608 Eastwood Ct
Fountain, CO
Before Inspection
37715 Oak Hollow Rd
Peyton, CO
1208 Cedar Park Way
Colorado Springs, CO
5031 Highland Pl
Manitou Springs, CO
After Inspection
29624 Willow Creek Dr
Colorado Springs, CO
418 Magnolia Ave
Monument, CO
Finals
32240 Riverbend Ln
Colorado Springs, CO
1576 Pinehurst Dr
Falcon, CO
830 Brookside Blvd
Colorado Springs, CO
Revisions
26011 Stonegate Cir
Security-Widefield, CO
337 Hawthorne Ct
Colorado Springs, CO
Credit where it's due
What ACI does well.
These are not the things we're trying to replace. Keep using all of them.
Deep forms library.
500+ forms including current UAD forms and ACI's general-purpose gPAR series, refined since 1979. Report production is ACI's job, and it does it well.Sky Workbench and Sky Data.
A cloud URAR platform for the UAD 3.6 era, with subject and comp data pulled from First American's property data repository without leaving the report.SureStep mobile inspections.
On-site data collection and photo capture that flows back into the report file, included with an ACI membership.
The gap
What ACI isn't built to do.
Six jobs every appraiser has to do anyway. ACI doesn't do them, so most offices duct-tape other tools together. We replace those.
Client / AMC CRM.
ACI knows about reports. It doesn't know about your clients, their fee schedules, or who owes you what.Visual team workflow.
No kanban. No board. No way for an assistant to see what's queued, who has it, and what's stuck.Calendar / inspection scheduling.
Inspections live in Outlook, iCal, Google — and one of them is always wrong.Stripe-native collection.
ACI doesn't run your receivables. Most appraisers send PDF invoices and hope for an ACH transfer.Branded client portal.
There's no place for a private client to log in, see status, download the report, and pay you by card on the spot.Multi-user team accounts with pairings.
The notion of an assistant paired to one appraiser, with scoped visibility across the whole office's pipeline, isn't in scope for a forms tool.
Side by side
Head to head, then together.
Three columns: ACI alone, Appraisal Ally alone, and the combo. The combo is the row that wins.
| Feature | ACI alone | Appraisal Ally alone | ACI + Appraisal Ally |
|---|---|---|---|
| Report production | |||
| UAD / gPAR forms library | |||
| Report delivery to lenders and AMCsStays with ACI — we don't intercept it. | |||
| SureStep mobile field app | |||
| Office layer | |||
| Client / AMC CRM | |||
| Kanban pipeline with team visibility | |||
| Calendar with Google Calendar sync | |||
| Stripe-native invoicing and payment collectionReal card processing on PRO and MAX, not just status tracking. | |||
| Branded client portal | |||
| Multi-user team accounts with pairings | |||
| Engagement letters tied to the assignmentGenerated per assignment, linked to the client, fee, and pipeline — e-signature on MAX. | |||
| Non-form assignments tracked as themselvesFeasibility studies, narrative work, and consulting get their own report type — or a label you type yourself — on the board, the list, the invoice, and the export. ACI still writes whatever document the job calls for; this is about your office not filing the job as “Other.” | |||
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ACI + Appraisal Ally
- UAD / gPAR forms library
- Report delivery to lenders and AMCsStays with ACI — we don't intercept it.
- SureStep mobile field app
- Client / AMC CRM
- Kanban pipeline with team visibility
- Calendar with Google Calendar sync
- Stripe-native invoicing and payment collectionReal card processing on PRO and MAX, not just status tracking.
- Branded client portal
- Multi-user team accounts with pairings
- Engagement letters tied to the assignmentGenerated per assignment, linked to the client, fee, and pipeline — e-signature on MAX.
- Non-form assignments tracked as themselvesFeasibility studies, narrative work, and consulting get their own report type — or a label you type yourself — on the board, the list, the invoice, and the export. ACI still writes whatever document the job calls for; this is about your office not filing the job as “Other.”
Report production
Office layer
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Migration risk: zero.
Three steps. Nothing leaves ACI.
No forms migration. No data risk. Plug it in tomorrow.
1. Keep ACI installed and unchanged.
Nothing about your reports, templates, signatures, or delivery changes. ACI stays exactly where it is.2. CSV-import your operational data.
Clients, AMCs, fee schedules, and calendar — dropped into Appraisal Ally's import wizard. Most appraisers finish the import in one afternoon.3. Run them in parallel, every day.
ACI writes the report. Appraisal Ally runs the office around it. Two tools, one fair monthly price for the layer in between.
Questions from ACI users
What people ask before plugging it in.
Using TOTAL instead of (or alongside) ACI?
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