2911Tech Intelligence Atlas
Every cost segregation methodology the IRS recognizes.
Qualified, generated, and compared — for your property.
The IRS Cost Segregation Audit Techniques Guide recognizes six study methodologies. Cost Seg Atlas reads your property's facts, determines which ones you qualify for, generates a full analysis under each — depreciation schedules, component listings, documentation requirements, audit-readiness scoring — and recommends the one to use, with the reasoning spelled out.
60-second estimate
What could this year's tax savings look like?
The six IRS-recognized approaches
One property. Six ways to study it.
Detailed Engineering — Actual Cost Records
Component-by-component allocation from contemporaneous construction cost records: payment applications, invoices, change orders. The most defensible study that exists — typical for new construction.
Detailed Engineering Cost Estimate
The same component-level rigor with engineered cost estimates where actual records don't exist. The industry-standard approach when you bought the building rather than built it.
Survey / Letter
Contractors and vendors confirm in writing what their components cost. Actual-cost support without a full engineering takeoff; everything unconfirmed stays conservatively in the building.
Residual Estimation
Short-life assets are estimated and the remainder defaults to the building. Faster and cheaper — with the ATG's accuracy caveat stated on every output, and conservatively damped percentages.
Sampling / Modeling
One detailed template study, applied across a portfolio of substantially similar properties with a documented sampling plan. Rigor amortized over every unit you own.
Rule of Thumb
A flat percentage with no property-specific analysis. The IRS gives it little to no weight — we generate it anyway, so you can see exactly what a real study earns over a shortcut.
Why owners choose us
Anyone can hand you a report. We show you how strong it is.
Plenty of services will generate an “official” cost segregation report in minutes for a flat fee — and leave you to discover its weaknesses during an examination. We took the opposite position: every study here is built to be inspected, and we grade it before the IRS ever could.
The instant-report approach
- One methodology, often undisclosed
- Percentages with no property-specific evidence behind them
- No reconciliation shown, no listing you can trace
- Protective fine print appears at purchase, not before
- When the IRS asks questions, the filing position is yours alone
The Cost Seg Atlas approach
- All six IRS methodologies qualified, generated, and compared
- Every line traceable to a photo, a document, or a cited price source
- Explicit reconciliation to total cost on every result
- A risk analysis that grades your study file against the 13 quality elements — with the exact steps that strengthen it — before you file
- A preparer sign-off workflow, so a qualified professional stands behind the study
We would rather show you your risk than hide ours.
How it works
Facts in. Every qualifying study out.
1. Intake
Property, cost, records-availability and portfolio profile — enough detail to test every methodology's requirements.
2. Qualification
The engine shows which of the six you qualify for today, and exactly what's missing for the ones you don't.
3. Generation
Every qualifying methodology is generated in full: MACRS + bonus schedules, component listings with citations, ATG audit-readiness checklist.
4. Recommendation
If more than one qualifies, each is compared and one is recommended — with the why, grounded in the tax knowledge base.