Funding Prep Studio now has three toolkits: one for established businesses, one for new businesses, and one for nonprofits seeking grants. Each one helps you get organized and lender-ready before you apply. Built by Cristal Finley, who spent fifteen years on the inside of funding decisions.
The work is the same idea every time: see what you have, find what is missing, and walk in prepared. The toolkit just meets you where your business actually is.
For established businesses. Organize your documents, numbers, debt, and use-of-funds plan into one lender-ready packet, the picture a funder gathers when they review you.
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.
For nonprofits seeking grants. Build a reusable grant-ready foundation, then prep a specific grant. Starts with a free Grant-Readiness Assessment so you see where you stand first.
The Lender-Ready Packet 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 funder would and sends back what is strong, what to tighten, and a clear path forward.
It is a preparation review, not approval, and it pairs with the established-business and new-business toolkits.
See how the review works →A written review of your finished packet by a former lender. Yours after you have built your packet with a toolkit.
See how the review worksA preparation review only. Not financial, legal, tax, or lending advice, and not a guarantee of funding or approval.
A few minutes, plain English, and a clear picture of where you stand. It also points you to the toolkit that matches your business.