Headline: 📣 COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT: The Master SBA & Underwriting Guide (Vol. 3) Is Officially Live! Hey Lab Family! 👋🧪 The wait is over. The completely updated, fully branded Master SBA Loan & Underwriting Guide (Volume 3) is officially online and ready for everyone to review! We engineered this version to be the ultimate reference blueprint for this community. Whether you are actively preparing a loan package right now or just mapping out your 3-to-5-year funding strategy, this document contains the exact formulas you need to clear bank underwriting smoothly. 🔬 What is waiting for you inside the update: - The New 2026 Caps: A full breakdown of the federal rule change that allows expanding companies to secure up to $10,000,000 by combining 7(a) and 504 loan programs. - The Underwriting "Needs List": An itemized checklist of the exact financial records, tax forms, and disclosures (including SBA Forms 413 and 1919) banks require before granting credit approval. - The Automated Risk Defenses: The specific industry words that trigger immediate software rejections, and the exact corporate naming structure you should use to bypass them. 🎯 Your Action Steps: 1. Head over to the Classroom tab right now. 2. Open up The Funding Lab Resource Vault. 3. Stream or download Volume 3 to review the material. 💬 Got Questions? > This is a comprehensive blueprint, and it's completely normal to have questions about how these underwriting rules apply to your specific business model or industry. Once you have reviewed the document, drop a comment below this post or shoot me a direct message with your questions. Let’s look at your structure together and make sure your entity is built for maximum leverage! Let's get to work! 🚀

Hey Everyone, I just tried something completely eye-opening. We spend so much time using AI to scale, build workflows, and analyze deals, but I just used it to run an audit on myself. I asked it to look at our past conversations and be a brutally honest mirror about my mindset, my blind spots, and where my real momentum is headed. It did not hold back. Honestly, it was exactly the kind of high-level reality check I needed to hear. If you want to see what it pulls up for you, open up whatever AI you use most and drop in these four prompts one by one: 1 Based on everything you know about me, tell me who you think I'm pretending to be versus who I actually am. 2 Be brutally honest and tell me my deepest insecurities. 3 What is the one cycle I'm stuck in that will keep me average forever? 4 If I fix this, what does the most successful version of my life look like in five years? Take five minutes to run this and let me know what it tells you. Fair warning: it gets real very fast.

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The Funding Lab - Kick Off Wednesday, Apr 1 · 1–2 PM Google Meet joining info Video call link: https://meet.google.com/ovq-whvu-cmv

The doors are officially open! Join me and Jonathan Mitchell from ADU Pals as we break down exactly how to navigate San Diego’s new zoning shifts and build high-ROI units this year. We’re diving into: - ✅ The 2026 Compliance Checklist - ✅ Design strategies to maximize your square footage - ✅ A live San Diego case study (dirt to doors!) Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST Join the meeting here: https://meet.google.com/qai-paed-afu See you inside! ☕️