Most properties depreciate far too slowly — leaving real cash on the table every year. A cost segregation study fixes that. And you choose how it's done: a traditional engineering firm, our AI specialist Todd, or both.
Same goal — bigger deductions, fully defensible. You decide the speed, the cost, and the level of sign-off.
Move 20–30% of basis into 5, 7, and 15-year lives.
Accelerate much of it into the first year, sized to your placed-in-service date.
Every reclassified item carries its legal justification.
Less tax today — capital you redeploy into the next deal.
Todd is our AI cost-segregation specialist. He breaks your property down component by component, assigns each its fastest defensible tax life, and writes the legal backing for every call — then hands you a complete, audit-ready study in days. When you want the engineer's signature on top, Todd does the heavy lifting first so the firm just validates and signs.
Address, purchase or build details, and any documents you have.
Every component sorted into its correct, defensible recovery life.
Legal tests and case law attached to each reclassified item.
A clean study, plus a plain-English summary of where you stand.
Todd is built backward from the way the IRS examines a study — so every line is ready before the return is ever filed:
Real components, defensible lives — documents where you have them, recognized cost data where you don't.
Each reclassification carries the legal test that proves it's personal property, not building.
The governing authority sits beside each call — the same cases an examiner uses.
Every line marked invoice-backed or estimate-supported, so you always know where you're strongest.
Deterministic schedule, placed-in-service accurate, with your sale-time recapture quantified up front.
Before you file, Todd tells you where you're solid and where you're thin.
Most people don't need this. If you do, it's all here — tap to open.
The IRS doesn't challenge the idea of cost segregation — it's settled law. It challenges the quality of the study and the paperwork. Here are the six steps an examiner takes:
A one-page "estimate" with no engineering, photos, or invoices is thrown out on sight. A full report ends this step in your favor.
Examiners follow their own Audit Techniques Guide and look for a credible engineering-based approach.
The real fight: is an asset slow "building" or fast personal property? The legal test should already be on the page.
The framework traces to Hospital Corp. of America. Strong studies cite the governing cases beside each call.
Do the numbers match what you paid? Missing documentation gets disallowed. Every dollar should trace to an invoice or a labeled estimate.
Fast deductions can return as recapture when you sell. A good study quantifies that up front.
You receive a complete study: a methodology section matched to the IRS guide, a component-by-component schedule (each flagged receipt or estimate), the legal justification beside every reclassified item, full depreciation and bonus tables, your recapture outlook, an audit-risk summary, and a documentation appendix tying invoices and photos to the components they support.
Yes. You don't have to amend old returns — a "look-back" lets you catch up all the missed depreciation in a single year using an accounting-method change. Best done with your CPA; we'll hand them everything they need.
No study — by Todd, by an engineer, by anyone — is guaranteed audit-proof. Any honest firm will tell you the same. What makes deductions defensible is a study built the way the IRS examines one: fully documented, grounded in the guide and the case law, with every weak spot disclosed to you up front. That's what we deliver — and if you want the engineer's signature on top of it, that's the "both" option. Partners, not brokers.
Send the address and the details — we'll show you the deductions hiding in the building, and you pick how you want it done.