Emergency capital

    Emergency Working Capital When Critical Equipment Fails

    When the machine that produces your revenue stops, every day has a measurable cost and the finance question becomes purely arithmetic: is the cost of capital smaller than the cost of downtime? It usually is, by a wide margin. What kills businesses in this scenario is not the price of the money — it is spending three weeks shopping for a better rate while the line sits idle.

    Quick answer

    Fast working capital when critical equipment fails. Cover emergency repair or replacement in days, not weeks, and keep production running.

    Get a structure for this situation

    Two quick steps. An advisor responds within 24-48 hours.

    You are probably here because

    A production machine, refrigeration system, or primary vehicle failed without warning
    Repair or replacement is five or six figures and insurance will not cover it or will not pay quickly
    Every day of downtime has a quantifiable revenue cost you can already calculate
    Your bank needs two to four weeks and the equipment needed to be running yesterday

    How we structure it

    Facility size$50K – $5M
    Term6 – 36 months
    Approval speedSame-day to 48 hours on complete files
    Time to fund2 – 5 business days

    What we need to give you an answer

    Have these together and you will know where you stand in 24-48 hours instead of three weeks.

    Last 3-6 months of business bank statements — the fastest path to a same-day answer
    The repair or replacement quote
    A short, honest statement of the daily revenue cost of the downtime
    Any insurance claim status, since a pending claim can change the structure and the term
    How it played out

    $41,000 a day of downtime versus the cost of moving fast

    A food processor lost its primary filling line on a Thursday. Replacement was $680,000 with a four-week lead time; an emergency rebuild was $185,000 and could be done in nine days. Downtime was costing roughly $41,000 a day in lost production. We placed $250,000 within four hours of receiving bank statements, with the rebuild contractor funded on Monday. Total financing cost over the term was a fraction of one week of downtime.

    Questions we get

    Tell us the situation and the number

    A capital advisor will respond within 24-48 hours with a realistic structure, not a rate teaser.

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