General Underwriting guidelines
Intent Index
Guaranteed Business Funding (GBF) provides fast working capital to small business owners through our use of data, technology. Our proprietary underwriting scoring model is powered by our Intent Index ™. The Intent Index assigns a score to each and every file that has met our minimum requirements for funding. Minimum requirements are an applicant small business must be in business for at least 4 months, generating at least $8000 per month in gross revenues and having a personal FICO of at least 400. Through today’s technology and the ability to store and crunch millions of pieces of data in seconds we can mitigate risk by knowing what non-credit based data points are predictive. The predictive attributes coupled with the business banking data that the applicant provides helps measure the businesses ability to pay and the business owner’s intention to pay. All too often a personal matter can adversely affect credit. Why should a low FICO score hamper a business owner’s ability to secure capital? We believe that business performance, cash flows, experience, and the business owner’s intent to pay should be the primary drivers.
Leveraging Technology and Data to Drive The Intent Index
Traditional banks do not leverage enough technology or fully understand how to use non-credit based data to predict risk. Guaranteed Business Funding has years of experience working with alternative data and can quickly and efficiently provide funding decisions within minutes to small businesses. GBF can provide a business cash advance within hours while traditional financing takes weeks and months. We, or our network of funding partners*, purchase a small business owner’s future receivables at a discount. We advance them capital today for tomorrow’s revenues so they can expand, hire, buy inventory, and grow their business. This working capital advance is not a loan. Due to its inherent risk, working capital advances are shorter term, have a higher cost of capital, and provide relatively lower dollar amounts ($3000 -$500,000) to business owners. Payments are not monthly rather daily, Monday through Friday only (no weekends or holidays). The terms are not fixed rather adjustable based on the business’s cash flow. A percentage of daily deposits is deducted from the business account so as to not adversely affect cash flows. If sales are down, the daily payment is less and vice versa. Our Intent Index ™ is constantly adjusted to mitigate risk and provide sound results.
Guaranteed Business Funding (GBF) provides fast working capital to small business owners through our use of data, technology. Our proprietary underwriting scoring model is powered by our Intent Index ™. The Intent Index assigns a score to each and every file that has met our minimum requirements for funding. Minimum requirements are an applicant small business must be in business for at least 4 months, generating at least $8000 per month in gross revenues and having a personal FICO of at least 400. Through today’s technology and the ability to store and crunch millions of pieces of data in seconds we can mitigate risk by knowing what non-credit based data points are predictive. The predictive attributes coupled with the business banking data that the applicant provides helps measure the businesses ability to pay and the business owner’s intention to pay. All too often a personal matter can adversely affect credit. Why should a low FICO score hamper a business owner’s ability to secure capital? We believe that business performance, cash flows, experience, and the business owner’s intent to pay should be the primary drivers.
Leveraging Technology and Data to Drive The Intent Index
Traditional banks do not leverage enough technology or fully understand how to use non-credit based data to predict risk. Guaranteed Business Funding has years of experience working with alternative data and can quickly and efficiently provide funding decisions within minutes to small businesses. GBF can provide a business cash advance within hours while traditional financing takes weeks and months. We, or our network of funding partners*, purchase a small business owner’s future receivables at a discount. We advance them capital today for tomorrow’s revenues so they can expand, hire, buy inventory, and grow their business. This working capital advance is not a loan. Due to its inherent risk, working capital advances are shorter term, have a higher cost of capital, and provide relatively lower dollar amounts ($3000 -$500,000) to business owners. Payments are not monthly rather daily, Monday through Friday only (no weekends or holidays). The terms are not fixed rather adjustable based on the business’s cash flow. A percentage of daily deposits is deducted from the business account so as to not adversely affect cash flows. If sales are down, the daily payment is less and vice versa. Our Intent Index ™ is constantly adjusted to mitigate risk and provide sound results.