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Calculators, AI agents, prompts, workflows, playbooks and other machinery for people actually building, buying and funding businesses.
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Find readiness checks, funding tools and capital-planning machinery.
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GATEDAI Loan Broker Stack — 2026 Operator Playbook
A practical operating map for what loan brokers should automate, augment with AI, or keep human.
CRM Graveyard Recovery Kit
A nine-file recovery stack for auditing stale leads, segmenting the CRM graveyard, rebuilding follow-up, and handing risky conversations back to humans.
Am I Fundable?
Check how fundable your business looks before you apply.
Custom GPT Directory
Browse specialized AI assistants for funding, operations, acquisition, content, and automation.
EXPLORE EVERYTHING
The canonical public resource inventory. Filter it without digging through somebody else's folders.
Am I Fundable?
Check how fundable your business looks before you apply.
Custom GPT Directory
Browse specialized AI assistants for funding, operations, acquisition, content, and automation.
Cash Flow Stress Test
Pressure-test cash flow before a shortfall becomes an emergency.
Deal Reality Check
Run the core numbers before making an offer on a small business.
GATEDAI Loan Broker Stack — 2026 Operator Playbook
A practical operating map for what loan brokers should automate, augment with AI, or keep human.
CRM Graveyard Recovery Kit
A nine-file recovery stack for auditing stale leads, segmenting the CRM graveyard, rebuilding follow-up, and handing risky conversations back to humans.
Funding Product Matrix
Compare common business funding products by borrower fit, use of funds, readiness, red flags, documents, repayment structure, urgency, and next-best action.
Lender Fit Routing Copilot
Compare redacted borrower scenarios against funding-product fit and produce a transparent routing recommendation for human review.
Funding Data Room Copilot
Organize funding files, identify documentation gaps, and prepare a cleaner funding data room before human review.
Funding Workflow Guardrail Builder
Map where AI can act, where humans must review, and what evidence a funding workflow should record before automation goes live.
GPT Action Architect
Design the smallest secure set of GPT Actions and integrations needed to turn a useful workflow into an executable one.
Amazon Payout Gap Calculator
Quantify the cash gap between Amazon payout timing and the supplier, freight, inventory, and operating costs due before the money lands.
Ad Spend Cash Flow Calculator
Forecast how payout lag, inventory pressure, and paid-ad spend can create a short-term ecommerce cash gap before you scale into it.
Follow-Up Script Pack
Ready-to-edit follow-up scripts for missed inquiries, stale quotes, no-shows, dormant leads, review requests, and human handoff—built for small businesses that want faster follow-up without sounding robotic.
Tax Pressure Capital Estimator
Estimate the capital gap created by an upcoming tax payment after operating cash, reserves, collections, expenses, and a protected liquidity buffer are accounted for.
Acquisition Deal Calculator
Model buyer equity, seller financing, bank or SBA debt payments, and simplified DSCR before deciding whether an acquisition structure deserves deeper work.
Ecommerce Platform Fee Audit
Audit ecommerce payouts, platform fees, contribution margin, reserves, refunds, disputes, and cash timing before those leaks turn into a funding problem.
Micro-Acquisition Fundability Calculator
Score a micro-acquisition using estimated DSCR, customer concentration, owner dependence, book quality, recurring revenue, and other financeability signals.
SBA 7(a) Business Acquisition Calculator
Estimate a simplified SBA acquisition loan, monthly payment, DSCR, and rough purchase-price capacity from your deal assumptions.
The Business Buyer’s Blueprint
Pressure-test whether a business fits your capital, goals, operating reality, lifestyle, and risk tolerance before you confuse an interesting listing with the right acquisition.
Is This a Good Deal?
Tear down a small-business or startup deal, spot red flags, sanity-check value, and explore financing ideas before you sink serious time into diligence.
Deal Scorecard GPT
Grade a micro-acquisition with a structured scorecard so weak deals die faster and stronger ones earn deeper diligence.
ENTER THE AI
AGENT ARSENAL
A specialized directory of funding, acquisition and operator GPTs already exists next door. Black Lab starts connecting that arsenal to the wider tool ecosystem here.
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