The practitioner behind the credential.
Twenty years of field appraisal work. One of 26 Master Equipment Appraisers in the United States. 900+ engagements. $5B+ appraised. This is what it looks like when a credential is earned, not purchased.
Full CV and a sample appraisal report available upon request.
Built from the field up.
Twenty years as a certified equipment appraiser. Nine years before that in business consulting. The combination matters: most equipment appraisers understand machines. Nathan understands machines, balance sheets, lending relationships, litigation dynamics, and the specific moment in each of those contexts where a defensible number is the difference between a good outcome and a bad one.
The MCMEA credential — Master Certified Machinery & Equipment Appraiser — is the highest available standard in equipment appraisal. There are 26 of us in the country who hold it. It isn't a course completion certificate. It requires documented experience, peer review, and demonstrated methodology that holds up under challenge. Nathan has passed the Daubert challenge in every court appearance on record — the federal standard for expert witness qualification.
BAZZLE is not a pivot or a passion project. It is the logical extension of 20 years of field observation: operators and lenders repeatedly showing up to critical conversations with documentation that didn't hold up. BAZZLE fixes that systematically — with the Equipment Appraisal, Continuous Asset Monitoring, and the ProofMark.
"Hundreds of thousands of photos of equipment, but few selfies..."
The leadership behind the scale.
Amanda Bazzle is the operational engine behind BAZZLE — the person who builds the systems, designs the workflows, and creates the capacity that allows the practice to scale without Nathan being the bottleneck on every engagement. Her background in process design and project management is what makes BAZZLE a platform rather than a solo practice.
Where the numbers come from.
A defensible value starts with hands on the equipment. Two decades of engagements across mining, heavy manufacturing, sawmills, rail, wastewater, and construction — a rare few of them caught on camera.
BAZZLE is not a software company with appraisal bolted on.
The MCMEA methodology is the foundation. The platform extends it. The ProofMark proves it. If you want a defensible number that holds when it matters, that starts with the credential.