When we started looking into cost segregation for our own properties, we found the same thing over and over: information that was technically available but practically withheld. Every article was a sales funnel. Every “free consultation” was a pitch. The fees were structured to make the math difficult to justify unless you had a large commercial portfolio.
Our own CPAs — good ones — knew about cost segregation. But the traditional process was expensive, slow, and required site visits and engineering firms. At $5,000–$15,000 per property, it only penciled out for the biggest investors. Everyone else was left to depreciate over 27.5 years and never know what they were leaving on the table.
What really bothered us wasn't the price. It was the information asymmetry. The strategy is IRS-compliant, well-documented, and extremely effective — it's in the Code. But the people who controlled access to it were monetizing the friction, not the expertise. That felt wrong.
So we built it ourselves. As investors, for investors. We partnered with tax professionals and built the tool we wished had existed when we started.