Business plans and feasibility
A business plan is useful for exactly two reasons: to decide whether to do something and to persuade someone else to back it. A feasibility study answers the first question before you spend real money on the second. We write both for founders, for owners expanding and for buyers who need a plan for a lender, built on numbers you can defend.
What you leave with
You have a plan and financial model that a lender, investor or partner can read and that tells you honestly whether the idea works.
Who it is for
- Founders starting a company in BC who need a plan for a bank or a partner
- Owners expanding to a new location, product line or acquisition
- Buyers who need a business plan to finance a purchase
What we deliver
- A feasibility study: market, competition, pricing, costs, capital required and a recommendation
- A business plan written for its reader, whether lender, investor, landlord or partner
- A financial model with revenue, costs, cash flow and break-even, assumptions documented
- A capital plan: how much you need, when and from which sources
- Key risks, what would change your course and a one-page summary
How it runs
01Brief
A Startup Advisory session establishes the idea, the reader and the decision the plan must support.
02Research
We test the market, competition, pricing and costs with you, using your data and what can be verified.
03Model and write
We build the financial model first, then write the plan around what the numbers actually say.
04Review
We walk you through it, rehearse the questions a lender or investor will ask and revise.
Engagement and fees
Starts with a 60-minute Startup Advisory consultation at $349. Plans and feasibility studies are quoted as a fixed fee after the brief, based on scope and the reader. Every engagement is scoped after a call and confirmed in writing. See consultations and fees.
Feasibility before the plan
Founders often write the business plan first and discover in the financial model that the idea does not work. A feasibility study flips that order. It asks the uncomfortable questions early: is there demand you can reach, what will customers pay, what does it cost to deliver, how much capital does it take to reach break-even and what happens if you are wrong about the biggest assumption. If the answer is no, you have saved yourself the plan, the lease and the first year.
Writing for the reader
A lender wants to know you can repay, so they read cash flow, security, your own money at risk and your experience. An investor wants to know how big it can get and how they get their money out. A landlord wants to know you will still be paying rent years from now. A plan that tries to speak to all of them speaks to none. We write for the specific reader and adapt the plan for each additional one.
The model is the plan
The financial model is challenged line by line. We build it to be challenged: every revenue assumption tied to a count of customers and a price, every cost tied to a quote or a comparable, cash flow shown month by month through the period where cash is tightest and a clear statement of how much capital is needed and when. We work alongside your CPA on tax and accounting treatment. When the lender asks what happens if sales come in lower, you already have the answer.
Questions about this service
Do banks in BC actually read business plans?
They read the parts that answer their question, which is whether you can repay. A plan with a credible cash flow forecast, your own equity in the deal, relevant experience and a clear use of funds gets taken seriously.
How is a feasibility study different from a business plan?
A feasibility study decides whether to proceed. A business plan explains how you will do it, once you have decided. The study is shorter, more analytical and ends in a recommendation.
Can you write a plan to support an immigration application?
We write business plans for the business itself and work alongside regulated immigration consultants and lawyers who handle the immigration side. We never advise on immigration programs or promise outcomes.
Will you help me present the plan?
Yes. We rehearse the meeting with you, anticipate the questions and make sure you can explain every number without reading from the page. A plan you cannot defend out loud is not finished.
Start with a confidential conversation.
Tell Ali where the business is and what you want to happen next. You leave with a straight read on value, timing and the two or three moves that matter, whether or not we work together.