Executive Summary
Deal overview, purchase price, requested loan amount, equity injection, projected DSCR.
A bank-ready SBA 7(a) business plan, written by licensed loan brokers — not generic plan writers. We’ll write the plan, build the financial projections, and find the lender. You pay nothing.
Most business plan writing services charge $2,000 to $10,000 for an SBA loan plan. We charge $0 — because we’re SBA loan brokers, and we earn our fee from the bank when your loan closes. Your plan is the front door to the loan, not a separate product.
We’re GoSBA Loans — a licensed SBA loan brokerage. We get paid by the bank, not by you, when we successfully place your SBA 7(a) loan for a business acquisition. That’s how SBA brokerage works.
Every SBA acquisition loan requires a full business plan. Most borrowers either pay a writer like Go Business Plans $2K–$10K, or they cobble something together themselves — and lose 4–8 weeks of underwriting time going back and forth with the bank.
We already write SBA business plans every week for our clients. So we made it free for everyone who lets us broker the loan. You get a bank-ready plan in 2 business days. We get to compete for the loan placement. Everybody wins.
The fine print: The plan is free as long as we’re your SBA broker of record. If you decide to use a different broker, we just ask that you reimburse our writer’s time at our standard $2,000 rate — still less than half of what Go Business Plans charges.
Every plan we write is structured to meet SBA 7(a) underwriting standards — including the 9 sections the SOP 50 10 8 requires lenders to verify. No template fluff. Every plan is custom to your acquisition target.
Deal overview, purchase price, requested loan amount, equity injection, projected DSCR.
Target company overview, years in operation, customer base, products, location, real estate.
Why this target, why this price, transition plan, seller training, key-employee retention.
Industry size, growth, competitive landscape, local market share, sourced and cited.
Customer concentration analysis, top 5 competitors, differentiation, switching costs.
Buyer resume mapped to the role, org chart, ownership structure, post-close governance.
Customer retention strategy, growth channels, sales process, marketing budget.
Day-1 operating plan, key vendors, technology stack, real estate, equipment, headcount.
Honest risk assessment with mitigation plan — underwriters want to see this, not hide from it.
P&L, cash flow, balance sheet, monthly Year 1 — in Excel, with assumptions documented.
Global DSCR calc, full Sources & Uses with SBA guaranty fee, seller note, equity injection.
Resume, PFS, last 3 years of target’s tax returns, LOI, AR aging — all packaged for the bank.
Send us your LOI and the target company’s tax returns. We send back a polished, SBA-compliant business plan and 5-year financial projections — typically within 48 hours.
Send us your LOI, last 3 years of the target’s tax returns, your resume, and PFS. 5-minute upload — we take it from there.
We confirm SBA eligibility and DSCR fit, then walk through your story so the plan reflects your actual operating thesis.
Full SBA-compliant plan + 5-year Excel projections + Sources & Uses + Global DSCR. Custom to your acquisition target.
Polished Word doc + Excel workbook, ready to send to lenders. We then shop it to 25+ active SBA banks on your behalf.
Paid writers like Go Business Plans, Bplans, and Wise Business Plans charge thousands and don’t handle your loan. We do both — for free.
Every one of these started with a free business plan and ended with an SBA loan funded by one of our partner banks.
“I’d already quoted out a business plan at $4,800 with Go Business Plans before I found GoSBA. Their plan was honestly better — way more SBA-specific. Two weeks later I had three term sheets. Closed on the HVAC company at Prime + 1.0%.”
“My first SBA broker wanted me to write the plan myself. I had no idea what underwriters look for. Ishan’s team wrote the whole thing in 6 days — including projections that actually matched the bank’s DSCR template. Funded in 47 days.”
“Pari passu deal at $5.4M, complex structure with a seller note. Three other brokers told me to hire a paid writer first. GoSBA handled the plan, the DSCR, and the conventional lender side-by-side with the SBA piece. Closed in 62 days.”
Tell us about your acquisition. We’ll confirm SBA eligibility within 24 hours and deliver your bank-ready business plan, financial projections, and Sources & Uses within 2 business days. No charge. No obligation.
“I quoted out a business plan at $4,800 with Go Business Plans before I found GoSBA. Their plan was honestly better — way more SBA-specific. Two weeks later I had three term sheets.”
— Jeremy M., $2.4M HVAC Acquisition
The most common questions we get from buyers using our free SBA business plan writing service.
There’s no catch — just a different business model. We’re a licensed SBA loan brokerage, not a business plan writing service. SBA brokers get paid by the bank when a loan closes, the same way mortgage brokers do.
Since every SBA acquisition loan needs a business plan, and we’d write one anyway for our paying clients, we made it free for anyone who lets us shop their deal to lenders. You get a $2,000–$10,000 deliverable. We get to compete for the loan placement.
If you decide to use a different broker, we ask you to reimburse our writer’s time at $2,000 — still less than half the typical paid writer rate.
2 business days for the first draft, from the moment we have your documents. Compare that to 2–4 weeks at most paid writing services. We move faster because SBA business plans are 90% of what our writers do every day — they don’t context-switch between dental practices, food trucks, and venture pitches.
If you have an LOI in hand and need to move even faster, we’ve turned plans around in 24 hours for urgent deals. Just tell us the deadline.
The full SBA 7(a) package: executive summary, business description, acquisition rationale, market analysis, customer/competition analysis, management plan, marketing plan, operations plan, SWOT, 5-year financial projections (P&L, cash flow, balance sheet, monthly Year 1), DSCR analysis, Sources & Uses, and appendix with supporting docs.
Delivered as a polished Word doc + Excel projections workbook. Lender-ready. We’ve had underwriters tell us our plans are easier to credit than their own internal templates.
We’ve written SBA business plans across 150+ industries — HVAC, plumbing, landscaping, construction, IT services, manufacturing, trucking, restaurants, franchises, home healthcare, insurance agencies, self-storage, dental practices, daycare, gyms, auto repair, pest control, liquor stores, and many more.
We focus on businesses with $500K–$10M in revenue being acquired for $500K–$15M — the sweet spot of the SBA 7(a) program. Outside that range, we still help, but the structure may shift to a 504 or pari passu deal.
It’s your plan. You own it the moment we deliver it. Take it to any bank, any lender, any investor — we don’t lock it down.
That said: most clients let us shop the deal because we already have term sheets within a week from 25+ SBA-preferred lenders. Even if you have a banker you like, comparing their offer against ours usually saves 25–75 basis points on rate, which on a $2M loan is $5K–$15K per year.
No SBA broker can ethically guarantee approval — the SBA, the lender, and the underwriter all have final say. What we can tell you is whether your deal is fundable before we write a single page. If your DSCR doesn’t pencil at 1.25x or your equity injection is too thin, we’ll tell you on the first call. We don’t waste anyone’s time writing plans for deals that won’t fund.
Yes. If you’re still searching, we can issue a pre-qualification letter based on your personal financials, then help you analyze deals as they come up. Once you have an LOI, we kick off the full business plan immediately.
If you’re early-stage and exploring multiple targets, we’ll send you sample plans in your target industries so you can see exactly what underwriters want to see — before you sign an LOI.
Three big differences:
1. Cost. Go Business Plans charges $2,000–$10,000. We charge $0.
2. Specialization. Paid writers write all kinds of plans — pitch decks, immigration plans, internal strategy docs. We only write SBA acquisition plans. We know exactly what the SBA SOP 50 10 8 requires because we send plans to underwriters every week.
3. End-to-end. Paid writers hand you a PDF and disappear. We package the plan, send it to 25+ lenders, negotiate the term sheet, manage underwriting Q&A, and ride the deal to close.
We’re a real, licensed SBA loan brokerage. We close acquisition loans every month with banks like Live Oak, Huntington, Celtic, Byline, Newtek, First Bank of the Lake, and many more. Check out our recent deals page to see the loans we’ve closed — with deal sizes, rates, and industries.
If you’re buying a business and need an SBA loan, the plan should be part of the broker’s job — not a $5,000 side-purchase. Start your free plan in under 60 seconds.
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