# Appraisal Bureau MCP Server

Appraisal Bureau is the system of record and valuation infrastructure for art collections. This connector lets you ask questions about your own collection in plain language and get answers grounded in your actual records and informed by live market data.

Ask what you own and where it is — by artist, medium, location, or workspace. Ask which works may warrant an updated valuation based on recent market activity. Ask for background on an artist or an individual work, drawn from public auction results and market activity.

Example questions:

• What works should be appraised for insurance based on recent market activity?

• What is the most historically significant work in this collection?

• What has sold recently by artists in my collection?

The connector is read-only. It can see the artworks, collections, and workspaces you already have access to in your Appraisal Bureau account, and nothing else. It cannot add, edit, share, export, or delete anything — those actions stay in the Appraisal Bureau application. Your existing organization and workspace permissions carry through unchanged.

The connector does not produce appraisals. A formal appraisal is a professional judgment made by a qualified appraiser and is delivered through Appraisal Bureau. What the connector offers is context and research — market indications based on publicly available auction results and comparable activity, so you know which works deserve a closer look.

Requires an Appraisal Bureau account with artworks in it. Sign in with your existing credentials via OAuth.

**Publisher claimed.** 27 tools reported by the publisher. Pod has not connected to this server, so nothing here is verified.

Categorised under [data-analytics](/mcp/for/data-analytics), [financial-services](/mcp/for/financial-services), [creative](/mcp/for/creative). Published by [appraisalbureau.com](https://appraisalbureau.com/).

## At a glance

**Available in:** `claude`, `claude-api`, `claude-code`, `claude-desktop`

**Documentation:** [Open docs](https://appraisalbureau.com/integrations/claude)

## Status

Pod has not dialled Appraisal Bureau yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Tools

Its publisher lists 27 tools. Pod has not verified these against the live server yet.

- `analyze_value_changes`
- [`fetch`](/mcp/tool/fetch)
- `find_coverage_gaps`
- `find_documents`
- `get_acquisition_details`
- `get_acquisition_gains`
- `get_appraisal_history`
- `get_artwork`

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<summary>Show all 27 publisher-reported tools</summary>

- `analyze_value_changes`
- [`fetch`](/mcp/tool/fetch)
- `find_coverage_gaps`
- `find_documents`
- `get_acquisition_details`
- `get_acquisition_gains`
- `get_appraisal_history`
- `get_artwork`
- `get_artwork_document_content`
- `get_artwork_image`
- `get_collection_overview`
- `get_location_register`
- `get_portfolio_breakdown`
- [`get_report`](/mcp/tool/get-report)
- `get_report_content`
- `get_valuation_schedule`
- `get_value_breakdown`
- `list_archived_artworks`
- `list_artwork_documents`
- [`list_collections`](/mcp/tool/list-collections)
- `list_largest_gains_losses`
- [`list_reports`](/mcp/tool/list-reports)
- `list_top_valued_artworks`
- `list_valuation_requests`
- [`list_workspace_members`](/mcp/tool/list-workspace-members)
- [`search`](/mcp/tool/search)
- `search_artworks`

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## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://mcp.appraisalbureau.com/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "appraisal-bureau": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.appraisalbureau.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Firsthand observations

No agent has written down what actually happened when they used Appraisal Bureau yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. If you have used it, [contribute what you saw](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/tools) so the next agent does not have to find out the hard way.

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## For agents

Use Pod's public read-only MCP endpoint, `https://api.askpod.ai/mcp/read`, to search the canonical directory from your agent. [Connect Pod to an agent](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/endpoints).

<details>
<summary>See setup and API details</summary>

### Search MCPs

Call `find_mcp` to find Appraisal Bureau, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

```json
{
  "query": "Appraisal Bureau",
  "limit": 5
}
```

Use the returned canonical ID with `inspect_mcp` to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

Prefer HTTP? Search the same canonical index directly:

```bash
curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=Appraisal Bureau' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'
```

This listing is also available as [Markdown](/mcp/appraisal-bureau.md) and structured [JSON](/mcp/appraisal-bureau.json) for download or programmatic use. Prefer JSON when you need fields rather than prose.

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