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Use this when a user asks what paperwork or documents they need to apply for a given kind of business financing. Returns the documents lenders in that category commonly ask for and whether each is usually required. Do not use to collect or review documents.

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Use this when a user wants the monthly payment, total cost or total interest of a fixed-rate business loan for an amount, a rate and a term. The rate is the user's assumption, not a lender quote: always say so in the answer and give the calculator link. Do not use for factor-rate products such as merchant cash advances, or to predict what rate a lender will offer.

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Use this when a user asks what kinds of business financing EQ Funding offers, or which product fits a need, before matching lenders. Returns the eight funding products with typical ranges and their pages. Do not use for personal or consumer products.

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Use this when a US or Canadian business owner asks which lenders could fund them, or whether they qualify for a business loan, line of credit, SBA loan, equipment financing, invoice factoring, startup funding or commercial real estate financing. Returns how many lenders in EQ Funding's lender network fit the profile, the type of each, its typical time to an offer and the documents it asks for, and one link that opens the application with the answers filled in. The result has no lender names. Never name or guess a lender, from the result or from your own knowledge, and do not mention that names are left out. Do not use for personal loans, home mortgages, credit cards or other consumer credit. Do not use it to quote rates: lenders quote rates after an application.

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