Engineering-grade cost segregation, built for the way tax practices actually work
Every study goes through the same four-phase process. AI handles the pattern-matching and documentation drudgery. A licensed engineer owns every classification. Your CPA gets a clean deliverable that drops into Drake, CCH Axcess, or UltraTax without retyping.
Classification models trained on IRS guidance, court cases, and thousands of prior studies. Pattern-recognition for photos and invoices at scale.
A licensed professional engineer signs every study. Not a reviewer — the engineer who stands behind the classifications by name.
Every classification traces to a legal basis: Regs, cases, PLRs. Every cost reconciles to total basis. Audit Defense Guarantee built in.
Essentials in 5 business days. Standard in 7. Premium in 10. Firm SLAs, not aspirational timelines.
Intake
Takes you ~10 minutes. The system knows what to ask based on property type.
Each of our 17 property types pre-loads a property-specific playbook: the typical reclass ranges, the risk flags to watch for, and the exact documents we need.
Client name, property name and address, placed-in-service date, purchase price, and land value. We compute your improvement basis on the fly and suggest the right pricing tier.
Closing statement, construction cost breakdown or invoices (if available), prior depreciation schedule (for lookbacks), and photos. The intake checker tells you in real time what's complete and what's still missing.
17 playbooks, one for every common asset class
Each playbook encodes the typical 5- and 15-year reclass ranges, the high-value assets to watch for, and the risk flags specific to that property type.
Classification
AI does the pattern-matching. An engineer makes every call.
Our models read invoices line-by-line, group related costs, and tag assets by area and system. Photos are tagged with the areas and assets they depict. Nothing is classified by a model alone.
Every asset is run against BluePrint's classification rules — which encode IRS guidance, tax court decisions, and the property-type playbooks. Each classification carries a confidence level and a risk flag.
The signing engineer reviews every non-routine classification, overrides anything the model got wrong (with written justification), and adds notes on judgment calls. Locked firm rule: no study ships without engineer sign-off.
Cost allocation & reconciliation
The basis reconciles to the penny. Every method is documented.
Direct invoices when available, RSMeans detailed cost estimation when not, or a hybrid. We pick the right method per asset category and document why. Soft costs (design, permits, financing) are allocated proportionally.
Every dollar is tied back to the total depreciable basis. If the math doesn't reconcile, the study doesn't ship. This is table stakes — and it's the single biggest difference between a defensible study and a cheap one.
Reclass percentages are checked against the property-type playbook's typical ranges. If the numbers are materially off, we flag it and the engineer explains why (or corrects it).
Report & delivery
Your CPA gets exactly what they need. You get a PDF that holds up to examination.
Executive summary, methodology, asset schedules by class life, cost reconciliation, photo appendix, legal citations, engineer-signed certification, and the Form 3115 workpaper for lookbacks. Built to the standards in BluePrint's internal Section 7 report spec.
A one-page summary for your CPA with every number they need to enter, plus structured data that imports directly into Drake, CCH Axcess, and UltraTax. No retyping, no transcription errors.
The moment your report is delivered, the guarantee is in effect — for the life of the study. If the IRS asks questions, the signing engineer answers them. No separate retainer, no upsell.
Why this process is different
Every asset on every schedule has a citation — to the regs, a court case, a PLR, or BluePrint's property-type playbook. Not a model hallucination, not a guess.
Medical practices get the medical playbook. Restaurants get the restaurant playbook. STR owners get the STR playbook with the material-participation notes your CPA needs.
You don't get to submit half-complete intake. The checker tells you what's missing, in plain English, before you hand off to the engineer.
Every tier. Every study. Every time. Locked firm rule — and if the firm ever changes that rule, it doesn't apply retroactively to studies already delivered.
Every tier. Every study. Every time.
If the IRS asks questions about a study we delivered, the signing engineer answers them. No separate retainer, no upsell, no fine print. It's a locked firm rule — and if the firm ever changes that rule, the change doesn't apply to studies already delivered.
Right-sized to the property
60-second quote tool with an instant estimate of accelerated depreciation and Year-1 tax impact.