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Get the SBA loan.

One roadmap, one guide, one workbook for every kind of SBA deal — and the CFO in your corner the whole way.

An SBA loan means a multi-week document chase most first-time borrowers walk into blind. This is the place that walks you through it — start with the free roadmap for your kind of deal, then pick up the guide and the workbook — a live Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) file — that does the real work: fill-in templates that build your projections, your personal financial statement, your schedule of liabilities, your use-of-funds, and your credit summary on your own numbers. Built for the borrower, and for the brokers and lenders who would rather send a prepared client than chase an unprepared one. Pick your deal.

Buying a business

SBA 7(a) Acquisition

You found a business to buy and need to finance the purchase — the recast, the coverage, the package.

Buying your building

SBA 504 · Owner-Occupied Real Estate

You're tired of paying a landlord and want to own your space with about 10% down, across two loans.

Cash, refinance, or a buyout

SBA 7(a) Working Capital

You need capital to grow, want to refinance costly debt, or are buying out a partner.

A line for cash-flow swings

SBA CAPLines · Revolving Line

Your cash needs rise and fall with seasons, contracts, or growth — and you need a line of credit, not a term loan.

Buying a franchise

Franchise + SBA 7(a)

You're weighing a franchise and need the real numbers behind the brand — and the financing to open it.

Not a checklist that tells you what to bring but never how. Not free help that depends on whichever volunteer you draw. Not a packager who charges a fee and leaves you no wiser. The secret isn't the roadmap — it's the workbook. Its fill-in templates build your actual package on your own numbers: the projections, the personal financial statement (Form 413), the schedule of liabilities (Form 2202), the use-of-funds, the credit summary, the business plan. You don't arrive at the lender with advice — you arrive with the finished documents, complete and consistent, that you produced and understand.
Built to work in, not write on

The workbook is a live Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) spreadsheet — you type your own numbers and the formulas do the math, instantly. The business plan is a fully editable Microsoft Word (.docx) template you make your own. These are the dynamic foundation you build your deal on — not a paper guide to read, and nothing to handwrite.

For brokers, lenders, CDCs & SBDCs

You're tired of the paper chase too. Unprepared borrowers cost you weeks of back-and-forth on incomplete files. Put your name on these roadmaps and tools and send your clients here — they come back lender-ready, and the relationship stays yours.

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