Not a row in a spreadsheet. A record that would survive an insurance claim, satisfy an appraiser, and mean something to an heir who never learned what any of it was.
Every second between pointing the camera and having a record is a second where someone gives up. Thirty seconds is the target, and it is not negotiable.
Artist, title, year, medium, dimensions, edition, signature and markings — drafted from the photograph and the wall label.
Receipts, invoices, and certificates give up seller, date, price, currency, and provenance lines. Multi-page PDFs included.
Each field shows how sure the model is and where the value came from. High-confidence captures accept in one tap; you confirm before anything is saved.
CSV and Excel import with column mapping, a dry-run preview, per-row error reporting, and bulk image matching. Most collectors already have one.
People catalogue in homes, storage units, and freeports. The app records there and reconciles when it next sees a network.
Vision fills in fields and reads documents. It does not tell you a work is genuine, and it does not state what something is worth as fact.
A collector with two hundred works can tell within minutes whether a tool is serious. This is the part that decides it.
An ordered chain of owners, galleries, and auctions — each with date, price, notes, and the source document. Unexplained breaks are flagged rather than quietly tolerated.
Edition size and number, printer, publisher, and valuation per edition, because a large share of serious collecting is prints and photography.
Artists, galleries, dealers, auction houses, appraisers, conservators, insurers, brokers, advisors, heirs — each linked to the works, documents, and transactions they touch.
Where a collection does not fit the schema, extend it. The schema bends before your records do.
Actor, timestamp, action, and a before-and-after of every change. This is what makes the output defensible in a claim or an estate dispute.
A provenance chain on screen — four owners in order, each link showing the document that proves it, and one link flagged as unproven — with the invoice that would close the gap opened alongside. The flag is the point: a chain that admits what it cannot show.
Two things every claim turns on, and the two most collections cannot answer from memory.
Repeating records — date, examiner, grade, narrative — with damage marked directly on the image. A timeline, and a comparison between any two examinations.
Property, room, wall position. Plus storage, freeport, and sub-locations, with a wall view you can arrange by hand.
Not just where a work is — everywhere it has been, timestamped. At location, in transit, on loan, at the conservator, sold, deaccessioned.
Venue, dates, catalogue reference, borrower, the loan agreement itself, insurance during loan, condition in and out, and an alert when a return is overdue.
A condition report being made: pinch into the work, mark a loss and a craquelure area on the image itself, add the note, then swipe between this report and last year's to show the two states of the same corner. The copy promises marks on the image rather than PDFs in a folder — this is the only way to show the difference.
The invoice is in an email thread. The certificate is in a flat file somewhere. That is the problem, stated plainly.
Receipts, certificates of authenticity, appraisals, condition reports, loan agreements — PDF or image, single or multi-page.
OCR text and structured fields are extracted the moment a document lands, and the whole vault is full-text searchable.
A document is not a file in a folder; it is attached to the object, the provenance event, or the transaction it evidences.
Delivered through short-lived signed URLs, with a per-document access log recording who opened what, and when.
The payoff is proof, not organisation. A prettier database is a vitamin; documentation that would survive a claim is the thing you actually needed.
Branded, print-worthy, image-bearing, and shaped the way a carrier expects to receive one.
Carrier, broker, policy number, scheduled versus blanket, effective and renewal dates, deductible, and per-object limits — with gaps surfaced where a work has no coverage or exceeds its limit.
Wall labels and object labels, QR codes that resolve to the record, and single-work tear sheets for an advisor or a conservator.
A printable collection catalogue, condition report PDFs, and donation and appraisal packets assembled from records you already hold.
The generated insurance schedule as a document — cover page, per-work rows with values and policy references, photographs attached — held next to the phone it came from. Print it, photograph the print: the argument is that this arrives as paper an adjuster will accept.
Insurers apply escalating documentation burdens as values rise, and claims are underpaid for exactly the gaps nobody knew they had. This is the reason to open Verso in the eighteen months when nothing is happening.
Completeness measured against a documentation rubric, so the number moves as the record improves rather than sitting there as decoration.
A remediation checklist with guided fixes — the undocumented purchase, the work with no photograph of its reverse, the certificate never uploaded.
Appraisals ageing past three to five years, condition reports overdue, policies approaching renewal, works that moved and were never logged.
The same collection seen the way a carrier would read it at the moment of a claim, with the weak points named.
Verso is not an appraisal service and will not pretend to be one. Every derived figure carries its source and its disclaimer.
Acquisition price, insured value, formal appraisals, and market comparables, plotted over time rather than overwritten.
Appraiser, credential, amount, currency, effective date, and purpose — insurance, estate, or donation — with the next-refresh date computed from it.
Acquisition price, fees, and buyer's premium, plus the capitalised expenses that belong to a work: framing, conservation, shipping, storage, premiums.
Every derived figure is labelled an estimate, attributed to its source, and never presented as an appraisal. This is a constraint we hold ourselves to, not a disclaimer in small print.
The moments that make documentation matter are handed to someone else: a broker, an executor, a spouse. Verso is built for that hand-off rather than against it.
Read-only, expiring, revocable, and scoped to a whole collection, a single work, or documents alone — with presets for an advisor, an insurer, an appraiser, or an heir.
Who opened a link, and when. Revoke any of them from one screen.
A curated package — catalogue, valuations, documents, provenance — with scoped executor access. A first-class flow, not an export buried in settings.
CSV of every record plus every original image and document, any time, in formats that work elsewhere. The willingness to let you leave is the reason to trust us with the record.
Advisors, registrars, and collection managers work the same substrate a collector does — with the client switcher, the roles, and the accountability a professional engagement needs.
Multiple collections behind a client switcher, with portfolio rollups across all of them.
Advisor, registrar, accountant, spouse, client-view. Scoped per collection, revocable, and enforced at the data layer.
Co-branded reports under your own mark, and a per-client audit trail that shows exactly what you did and when.