The packets

A funding prep packet for wherever your business is right now.

Funding Prep Studio has three prep packets: one for established businesses, one for new businesses, and one for nonprofits seeking grants. Each one runs the math on what you enter, flags what needs attention, and helps you get organized before you apply. Built by Cristal Finley, who spent fifteen years on the inside of funding decisions.

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Pick your fit

Which packet is for you?

The work is the same idea every time: see what you have, find what is missing, and walk in prepared. The packet just meets you where your business actually is.

Funding Prep Packet

For established businesses. The builders run the math on what you enter and organize your documents, numbers, debt, and use-of-funds plan into one funding prep packet, the picture a funder gathers when they review you.

$97 one-time

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Pre-launch or under 3 years

New Business Funding Prep Packet

For startups and new owners with little or no financial history. Set up the basics funders expect and learn what they look for, so you can build toward funding instead of guessing.

$79 one-time

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Emerging and growing nonprofits

Grant Prep Packet

For nonprofits seeking grants. Build a reusable grant prep foundation, then prep a specific grant. Starts with a free readiness check so you see where you stand first.

$49 · free readiness check

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CRISTAL FINLEY

Optional add-on

Want a former lender to read your finished packet?

The Former-Lender Readiness Review is an optional written review of your completed packet by Cristal Finley, who spent fifteen years evaluating business funding requests, from $35,000 to $40 million. She reads it the way a lender would and sends back what a lender would notice, what to fix first, and a clear path forward.

It is a preparation review of the information you entered, not a lender decision, and it pairs with the established-business and new-business packets.

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Former-Lender Readiness Review

$399

A written review of your finished packet by a former lender. Yours after you have built your packet with a prep packet.

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A preparation review only. Not financial, legal, tax, or lending advice, and not a guarantee of funding or approval.

Not sure which fits?

Start with the free readiness check.

A few minutes, plain English, and a clear picture of where you stand. It also points you to the packet that matches your business.

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Funding Prep Studio provides educational and organizational resources only. We do not lend, broker loans, or guarantee funding, approval, eligibility, or any lender or funder decision. Every lender, funder, and financing program may have different requirements. These resources are not financial, legal, tax, or credit advice. Use them to prepare, and consult qualified professionals when you need advice for your situation.