Salvage recovery values your actuaries can audit.

The salvage recovery estimate sits inside every total-loss threshold decision and every reserve. Residual models realized sale prices from hundreds of thousands of recorded auction outcomes, and measures itself against sales the model never trained on, on a protocol published in the open.

What makes it usable in a reserving workflow

• Calibration as a first-class metric. Every estimate is a range, and 9 out of 10 sales land inside it. Measured on 74,824 sales the model never trained on, Aug 31–Sep 5, 2026. It's a rate across many estimates, not a guarantee for any one vehicle. The range is calibrated against realized sales, not set by judgment.
• Model versioning and audit trail. Every estimate is logged with its inputs and model version; versioned endpoints mean your integration doesn't silently change under you.

Current status

The hammer-price model is in production validation, measured weekly on a rolling forward-in-time holdout. If salvage recovery values matter to your total-loss or reserving workflow, we're glad to walk you through the methodology directly: info@residualauto.com.