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Plain explanations of how each funding product actually works, what it costs, and the situations where it will help or hurt.

Choosing a loan

Choosing a business loan: a decision guide

Match the term to the need, work from cheapest option down, and know where each one breaks. The decision path we’d walk through on a call.

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Cards & credit

Business credit cards: choosing one that fits

The five types and who each suits, what “excellent credit” really means, and the honest version of how intro 0% APR periods work.

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Cost & terms

Factor rate vs APR: what you're actually paying

A 1.35 factor rate is not 35% interest. Here's the arithmetic that turns it into a real annualised cost, and why the difference matters when you're comparing offers.

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Working capital

When a cash advance makes sense — and when it doesn't

Advances aren't inherently predatory. They're a tool with a narrow correct use. Here's the test that separates the two situations.

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Cash flow

Payroll is Friday and the money isn't there

What to do in the next 72 hours, in the order that actually works — including the options that cost nothing and the ones to avoid under pressure.

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Underwriting

What lenders actually look at in your bank statements

Revenue is the headline number, but negative days, deposit consistency, and existing positions decide more approvals than the top line does.

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Debt structure

Stacking: how a second advance becomes a spiral

Taking a second position to cover the first is the most common way a survivable cash crunch turns into a closed business. How it happens and how to get out.

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Contracts

Personal guarantees and UCC liens: what you’re signing

One clause makes you personally liable. The other can quietly block your next three attempts to borrow. What each does, and what’s negotiable.

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Debt structure

When your funder offers you more money

Renewal offers arrive on a schedule, and the headline number isn’t what reaches your account. How to work out what the new money actually costs.

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Credit

Business credit scores, and why yours might not exist

How business files differ from personal ones, which lenders actually use them, and how to build one deliberately — without the thirty-day promises.

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Next step

Find out what's actually available to you.

Answer four questions and see which funding options fit your business — and the criteria behind each one.