About Tappmedia NYC
Tappmedia NYC LLC is a Brooklyn advisory house built around two practices: capital recovery for business owners, and Milo, an AI brand audit product. Both share the same standard: do the actual work, not the pitch.
What We Do
Capital Recovery
Tappmedia NYC connects business owners and their CPAs with specialist partners who identify and recover capital already owed to them. It runs as one coordinated practice, not a menu of disconnected services: engineering-based cost segregation, R&D tax credit recovery, tariff and import duty recovery, property tax appeals, workers' compensation premium audits, merchant fee audits, healthcare insurance underpayment recovery, employee benefits and retirement plan review, and unclaimed class action settlement funds.
We work on contingency: no savings, no fees. Tappmedia NYC may receive a referral fee when a client engages a specialist partner introduced through this practice, at no additional cost to the client. The mechanics of each recovery category are documented in Field Notes, not a sales deck.
Milo, the Master Brand Audit
A separate product practice. Milo is an AI brand auditor that grades a brand across all 12 dimensions to the Fortune 500 standard, then writes the fixes itself. Output is a letter-graded scorecard with an executive action report, delivered in a day or two. Milo is a fixed-scope, one-time engagement, not a subscription. Details at mba.tappmedianyc.com.
How We Work
- Contingency first. We work on contingency: no savings, no fees. When we surface capital, we are paid from what we find. When we don't, you owe nothing.
- Collaborative, never adversarial. Your CPA is our ally. Every engagement is structured so the existing advisors in your life are strengthened by our involvement, not circumvented by it.
- Discreet by default. We do not publish client names or case values. References are shared when an engagement reaches a point where both sides benefit from them.
- Built to last. Recovered capital is only useful if it gets put to work. We stay in the conversation past the recovery itself, not just through the check.
Who We Serve
Small and mid-market, founder-led businesses who value direct communication and contingency-based fees. CPAs and financial advisors who want a vetted capital recovery resource for existing clients. Healthcare practices evaluating insurance reimbursement variances. Researchers and professionals studying tax incentive programs, cost recovery mechanisms, or brand strategy.
Leadership
Donald "B." Tapper, Founder & CEO. Nearly two decades in financial services and broadcasting before founding Tappmedia NYC. The practice was built on a single idea: that the most valuable work sits at the intersection of what a business owner already earned and what they are about to build next.
Author of Master AI Chat for 50+: Use AI as a Thinking Partner, Not a Tool, published with co-authors Sydonie and Leslie Tapper. Leads advisory work in the capital recovery space through specialist partnerships, alongside a separate product practice in applied AI and brand strategy.
Company Facts
Sources & Field Notes
Every substantive Field Notes article cites primary sources: the IRS, CMS, NCCI, state agencies, and comparable authoritative references, matched to its specific topic. Read the full library at tappmedianyc.com/blog.