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How to write the thing, and why each part is there.
Long-form, opinionated and specific. Written by the people building the engine, which is why these say what a reader actually checks rather than restating the question with headings.
Business plan templates, and when to stop using one
2 min read
What a template genuinely helps with, what it quietly costs you, and the section structure worth keeping.
How to write a business plan
5 min read
The order to write it in, the section that decides whether the rest is read, and the six places plans actually fall over.
SWOT analysis, done in a way that changes something
2 min read
The four boxes are easy and useless on their own. What makes them worth the page is what you do after filling them in.
The business model canvas, and what to do with it afterwards
2 min read
Nine boxes on one page, why the order you fill them in matters, and how to connect each one to a number in the model.
Executive summaries that actually get read
2 min read
What belongs on the one page, in what order, and the five numbers it has to carry.
Financial projections that survive scrutiny
3 min read
Driver builds rather than growth rates, three statements that tie, and the ratios a reader computes whether or not you provide them.
How we compute what we compute
Methodology
The eight rules the product is built on, the regulatory verification queue printed live from the configuration, and what we do not know.
Glossary
32 terms
Every term a lender, an investor or an adjudicator will use, defined plainly and linked to the calculator that computes it.
A note on these
Nothing here is padded to hit a word count, and nothing here is written to a keyword. Each article exists because the same question kept coming up and the existing answers stopped exactly where it got interesting.
Where an article states a number, it is either computed by our engine or carries its source. Where we do not know something, the article says so rather than filling the gap with a confident sentence.
Reading about it is the slow way.
The intake asks these questions in order and builds the model as you answer. Free to generate and read.