Capital Readiness Score
The Capital Readiness Score™ is Bankable One's 0–100 rating of how prepared a privately held business is to secure institutional capital today. It maps directly to the specific gaps standing between the business and approval.
The Capital Readiness Score is produced by the Bankable One Fundability Assessment. It scores five dimensions — entity structure, credibility signals, business credit profile, financial documentation quality, and lender fit — and returns both an aggregate score and the underlying rubric so an owner can see exactly what is dragging the number down.
It is deliberately not a proxy for a personal FICO score, a Paydex, or a bank rating. Those measure narrow slices of credit history. The Capital Readiness Score measures fundability the way a credit committee would read the file: does the structure, story, and documentation support the ask.
In practice, scores in the 80s indicate a business that a regional bank or SBA lender will engage with substantively. Scores in the 60s and 70s indicate a business that needs one or two targeted fixes before a lender submission is productive. Scores below 60 indicate a business that will burn its lender relationships if it submits now.
The score is not the deliverable — the gap list is. Every engagement tier at Bankable One is priced against the specific gaps the score surfaces, and the score is re-measured at the end of the engagement so the improvement is documented.
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Run My Free ScanLast updated January 5, 2026