51
Average age of an NZ valuer
Reported by NZIV’s incoming president in 2021. Too few trainees are qualifying to replace the valuers who retire.
Source: Otago Daily Times, 2021
Launching April 2027 · Built in New Zealand
Hyperopic is the NZ-built valuation workspace. Capture the inspection once on your phone, keep your sales and lease evidence in one place, and issue the report in your firm’s own template. You check every AI suggestion. You sign.
For registered valuers at NZ practices of 2 to 15.
Built for the work that still needs a valuer
The problem
The job got harder.The fee didn’t.
Fewer valuers are coming through, fees are under pressure, and lenders are swapping standard jobs for desktop and automated estimates. What’s left is the complex work, and every hour on it has to count.
96%
of NZ homes covered by an AVM
One data provider’s automated model already reaches almost every residential property. Standard work is going to software. Complex work still needs you.
Source: Cotality
2026
RICS AI standard in force
Since March 2026, RICS members need written policies, risk registers and professional oversight of the AI output they rely on.
Source: RICS, March 2026
Sound familiar?
Re-keying
01
Notes on a clipboard, photos on your phone, a sketch on paper. Then all of it typed again at your desk.
Scattered evidence
02
Sales in one export, leases in a spreadsheet, and the best comparable in a colleague’s head.
Review load
03
Graduates need checking, seniors are flat out, and no two valuers set out a method the same way.
Generic AI
04
A chatbot can write a paragraph. It can’t show where a figure came from or what it changed.
The product
Inspect once.Reuse every fact.
What you capture on site becomes structured facts that flow into your evidence, your calculations and your report. Nothing gets typed twice.
01
Capture once
Photos, dictation and a sketch, taken on your phone at the property. AI tidies your notes, and you confirm them before anything is used.
- Photos
- Dictation
- Sketch
02
NZ evidence in one place
LINZ address data, your REINZ sales exports and your firm’s own sale and lease evidence, searchable together and private to your firm.
- LINZ
- REINZ imports
- Firm evidence
03
Every AI step accountable
AI proposes. You accept or reject. Each change is checkpointed before and after, so you can compare versions and restore any of them.
- Proposals
- Checkpoints
- Restore
How it works
From site visitto signed report.
Step 01
Inspect
Capture photos, voice notes and a sketch on your phone. Confirm the tidied notes on site or back at your desk.
Step 02
Assemble
Pull the address record, comparable sales and lease evidence from one catalogue. Every fact keeps its source.
Step 03
Draft
Hyperopic drafts the report in your firm’s own template from the facts you confirmed. Methods are computed, not retyped.
Step 04
Review and sign
Accept or reject each suggestion, compare against the last checkpoint, then sign and issue. The trail stays on file.
The audit trail
You sign it.So you see everything.
A valuation carries your name and your PI cover. Hyperopic never changes a report silently. Every suggestion waits for your decision, and every decision is logged.
Try it. Accept or reject a suggestion.
Rent review · Industrial unit
DraftIllustrative dataCheckpoint 12
2. Location
The property is situated on the northern side of Sample Street, within an established and well-regarded industrial precinct that offers good access to arterial routes and the wider motorway network.
The property sits on the northern side of Sample Street in an established industrial precinct, close to arterial routes.
4. Net lettable area
1,240 m² 1,204 m²
6. Lease evidence
- 14 Example Road$172/m²
- 2/31 Sample Avenue$180/m²
- Unit 3, 8 Sample Street$185/m²
AI proposals · 3 waiting
WordingFrom your confirmed site notes
Shorten the location description, keeping only what your site notes confirm.
CheckAutomatic consistency check
Section 4 says 1,240 m². Your confirmed site notes say 1,204 m². Change it to match?
EvidenceFrom your firm’s evidence library
Add the lease at Unit 3, 8 Sample Street as a third comparable.
Log
- Checkpoint 12 saved before AI draft
- AI proposed 3 changes
Focus
Signal
Timeline
Measured first.Launched second.
Plenty of AI tools lead with a headline speed-up. We’re timing real jobs at a working NZ practice, stage by stage, and we’ll publish what we measure before we ask any firm to pay.
Nov 2026 – 2027
- In progress
- Planned
Now
01
Baseline
Timing real reports at a working NZ practice: research, inspection, analysis, drafting and review.
Early 2027
02
First practice live
Hyperopic runs on live jobs. We compare every stage against the baseline and publish the result.
April 2027 · Target
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Founding firms
Five to eight NZ firms come on board. We migrate each firm’s templates ourselves.
From late 2027
04
Wider NZ release
Open to NZ practices once founding firms confirm it earns its place on every job.
Foundingfirm
NZ practice
Founding firms
Five to eight firms.Our full attention.
Hyperopic opens to a small group of NZ practices first. Founding firms get a hands-on setup and a say in what we build next.
Setup
Templates migrated for you
Send us your report templates. We rebuild them in Hyperopic, so day one looks like your firm and not like ours.
Pricing
A founding rate
Founding firms pay from the start, at a founding rate agreed with you before you commit to anything.
Access
A direct line to the builders
Your valuers talk to the people writing the software. Whatever slows you down goes to the top of the list.
Roadmap
Built around your work mix
Rent reviews, financial reporting, insurance, litigation, development. We build for the work founding firms do.
A good fit if you have
- 2 to 15 valuers, in New Zealand
- Commercial or complex non-lending work in your mix
- A principal who’ll give us blunt feedback in the first 90 days
Where we stand
Built to keep valuersin the valuation.
Hyperopic · long-sighted by design
01
The valuer signs. The software drafts, checks and logs. That order doesn’t change.
- 02
Hyperopic is not an AVM. It produces no value estimate of its own. The opinion of value is yours.
- 03
We publish measured results, not headline multiples. If the saving is 20%, we’ll say 20%.
- 04
Your client files and private evidence stay in your firm’s own tenant. No other firm can see them.
0
Value estimates
made by the software. Valuers value.
1
Inspection
captured once, reused through the whole report.
100%
Of AI suggestions
logged with your decision beside them.
Questions
What valuersask us first.
Is Hyperopic an automated valuation model?
No. Hyperopic doesn’t estimate value and it doesn’t replace an inspection. It’s a workspace for the valuer doing the job: it captures what you find, organises your evidence, and drafts the report for you to check. The opinion of value is always yours.
Does the AI write my valuation?
It drafts wording and assembles sections from facts you’ve already confirmed, in your firm’s own template. Every change arrives as a proposal you accept or reject. Nothing reaches the issued report without your decision, and you sign it.
How much time will it save?
We don’t know yet, and we won’t guess. We’re timing real reports at a working NZ practice before and after Hyperopic, stage by stage, and we’ll publish what we measure. Join the waitlist and you’ll get the numbers first.
What will it cost?
Pricing isn’t final. Founding firms pay a founding rate, agreed up front. We’ll send pricing to everyone on the waitlist before asking for any commitment.
Where does our data live, and who can see it?
Each firm gets its own tenant. Your client files and private sale and lease evidence are visible only to your firm. Hyperopic is being built alongside a practising NZ valuation firm, which is exactly why that separation is contractual as well as technical: no firm, including that one, can see another firm’s work.
Will it work with our report templates?
Yes. For founding firms we migrate your templates ourselves, so reports come out looking like yours from the first job.
What data does it use?
LINZ address data, the REINZ sales exports you already have access to, and your firm’s own sale and lease evidence. Every fact in a report keeps a link to where it came from.
What about residential lending work?
We’re starting with commercial and complex non-lending work: rent reviews, financial reporting, insurance, litigation and development. Residential lending reports, built to the standing instructions, come next. Tell us your work mix when you join so we know what to prioritise.
What will my PI insurer think?
We’re asking PI brokers and insurers for their position on AI-drafted, valuer-signed reports, and we’ll share what they tell us. The audit trail exists for that conversation: it shows what was suggested, what you accepted, and what you changed.
I’m in Australia. Can I join?
Yes, join the list and choose Australia. We’re launching in New Zealand first because the data and report standards differ by country, and we’ll tell you when that changes.
Waitlist
Your name on the report.Your name on the list.
Join the waitlist and we’ll send you our measured results from live jobs, then founding-firm details, ahead of launch in April 2027.