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The Readiness Series · Book 2

Prepare your business before you ask for money.

Capital Readiness

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Never confuse access to money with readiness for money. Find out what your business can carry before you ask.

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Paul Wakefield, author

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Know what your business can carry. Then ask.

  • The five gates and the Capital Readiness Check
  • Debt Capacity, the Minimum Cash Floor and Debt Breakpoints
  • A practical sixty day plan
  • Gate checks: pass or not ready

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Five gates. In the right order.

Each gate depends on the one before it. A brilliant pitch cannot make up for weak repayment capacity.

  1. 01

    Financial Truth

    GATE ONE

    Know what the business can carry, not just its revenue.

  2. 02

    Capital Purpose

    GATE TWO

    Give the money a defined job, not a vague ambition.

  3. 03

    Repayment Capacity

    GATE THREE

    Carry the debt when reality is harder than the forecast.

  4. 04

    Capital Structure

    GATE FOUR

    Choose the money that fits the job.

  5. 05

    The Capital Pitch

    GATE FIVE

    Communicate readiness. Do not manufacture it.

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For founders about to ask for a loan or investment.

Most finance conversations start too late. The important one happens first, inside your business.

  • You are about to ask a lender or investor for money.
  • You know your revenue, but not what the business can carry.
  • The money has no defined job yet.
  • You judge debt by the monthly payment alone.
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A framework you can put to work.

Gate checks

Every chapter ends with one. Pass or not ready.

Sixty days

A practical plan to get capital ready.

The Capital Mirage

A lender can say yes and the money can still be wrong for you.

Meet the author

Paul Wakefield

Paul Wakefield is a CPD-certified Board Advisor with 20+ years building and advising businesses, the author of The Scale Readiness Ladder and the creator of Readiness Tools.

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BEFORE YOU ASK FOR MONEY

The lender asks if they can lend. You ask if you should borrow.

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