Seventeen Years. Not Much Surprises Him.

Anthony Salvi has seen most of what disaster restoration can throw at a building. Surgical wings, nursing homes, outpatient centers, mill buildings, hotels, manufacturing plants, apartment complexes, condominiums, and restaurants. Residential losses buried under ice dams in the middle of a New England winter. Storm deployments across more than ten states for Sandy, Harvey, Michael, Laura, Delta, Henri, and Ian.

He came up through the trades. Laborer to Assistant Project Manager at ServiceMaster. Volunteer firefighter. Project Manager at SERVPRO. Estimator for public adjusting firms through the storm years, at one point writing for nine adjusters at once. Then Senior Estimator for BELFOR. A career spanning more than $250 million in estimated losses.

Contractor. Estimator for public adjusters. Preferred building consultant for a major insurance carrier.

Anthony has sat on every side of the file, and the way he writes one does not change: measured on site, photographed, built from the top down, and scoped trade by trade so every line can be defended.

He knows how an overwhelmed adjuster with two hundred open files reads an estimate. He has been on the other end of that desk. Atlas writes the file so the scope is clear, the documentation is there, and the adjuster has what they need to say yes without another trip to the property.

The line items other estimates leave out are often the ones somebody learned about the expensive way.

Dumpster planking. Hardwood acclimation. Cabinet unpacking. Ongoing cleanup, not just final cleanup. Site logistics. Elevator weight limits. Police details for heavy equipment. These, and hundreds more.

Those details are on an Atlas estimate because each one has cost somebody money before. None of it is padding. Every line has a reason for being there.

Atlas became official in 2026 to do the part of the job Anthony had already been doing for years: building the scope, documenting the loss, and writing an estimate that can stand on its own.