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NExA: Needs, Eligibility and Assessment

One NExA. Two ways forward.

Every file we take on starts with NExA. We read your file the way a bank will, before any bank sees it. We have done this since 2010, so we know what gets a yes and what gets a no.

If your file is ready, we tell you where it gets funded, and we take it there. If it is not ready yet, you leave with a plan: what is blocking you, and how to fix it.

You stop guessing and walk out with a gameplan for where your business goes next.

What Goes In, What Comes Out

We find the “no” before the bank does.

Banks still have money to lend. What changed is how hard they look at the file. A vague ask and thin paperwork get pushed to the bottom of the pile, and all you hear back is a no with no reason attached.

Finding out where you stand costs your credit nothing. The read runs on the papers you hand us, not a credit pull, so nothing here touches your credit. A hard check only comes later, and only if you tell us to send a real application.

We run that same read first, while you can still change the answer.

What we take in

Your numbers

Statements, bank activity, what you already owe. The same papers a bank would ask for, collected once.

Your ask

How much, what for, by when. A fuzzy ask is the first thing a bank passes on, so we pin yours down first.

Your setup

Your company, who owns it, what you have already put up as security. This decides which loans you can even go for.

What you get back

The answer

Ready now, or not yet. In plain words, with the reasons tied to the file, not to you.

The match

Which loan and which lenders fit you: government-backed, a bank, a credit union, or a private lender.

What to fix

If the answer is not yet: what is in the way, how to clear it, and what order to do it in.

What Happens Next

Either way, you walk out with a next step to take.

Financing is a puzzle, and most files are missing a piece or two. We find the missing piece. Sometimes we fix it and get you funded now. Sometimes fixing it is the plan.

The edge is preparation, not who you know.

If you’re ready now

We take your file to the lenders that fit it.

We send it to the lenders who actually fund files like yours, set up the way they want to see it. When more than one wants the deal, they compete, and that competition gets you better terms.

What does not happen: your file blasted out to forty inboxes, your phone ringing with lenders you never picked.

It goes only where it fits. That is the whole point of reading it first.

If you’re not there yet

We hand you the plan to get there.

Most of the time a no comes down to things you can fix: a few months of clean books, a registration you should already have, old debt to sort out before new debt fits, an ask that is the wrong size.

We lay that work out in order, with our team and PMG’s accountants, and set check-in points you can hold us to. This part is paid, and you will know the price before we start.

A no with a map costs you months. A no without one costs you years.

Why We Built It

Fifteen years of doing this by hand, turned into a system.

NExA is new. The work behind it is not. For fifteen years we have read business files the way banks read them, found what was missing, and fixed it before the bank ever saw the file. NExA takes that experience and that workflow and builds it into one system, so you get the same careful read every time.

What you walk away with is a gameplan for the financial future of your business: what you qualify for now, and what gets you to more later.

The read stays honest because of how we get paid. Lenders pay us nothing, so no bank can buy our recommendation. You pay us, you know the price before any work starts, and we cannot afford to tell you a file is ready when it is not.

The same read that keeps us honest is the one that tells you where you actually stand.

The Process

How the read runs.

01

First call

A short call and a short list of documents: statements, bank activity, what you owe, and the ask, stated clearly.

02

The read

We check your file against the program rules and against what actually gets funded: the same read a bank will run, done before they run it.

03

The sit-down

Where you can get funded and on roughly what terms, or not yet and exactly why. You hear it straight, with the reasons attached.

04

The gameplan

If you are ready: we prepare the file and take it to the lenders that fit. If you are not: the step-by-step plan, priced up front, with PMG and PFG doing the work.

What's Behind the Read

The read is built on what actually funded.

2,000+

Businesses funded across Canada since 2010

15 yrs

Of experience built into NExA

95 of 100

CSBFL applications we prepared got approved

1,200+

CPA business plans built by PMG

These are numbers from past files, not a promise about yours. We read every file because every file is different.

Questions, answered

What owners ask about the read.

Is this software I log into?

No. NExA is a proprietary system: PFG's automations plus our human workflows working together. You never access the software itself, and nothing about your file is decided by a form. A person owns every verdict and is accountable for it. What you get is the outcome: an answer with reasons, the documents, and a named advisor.

Does this affect my credit?

No. The read runs on the documents you give us, not a credit pull, so it leaves your credit untouched. A hard credit check only happens later, and only if you authorize a real application to a lender.

What does the read cost?

You will know the number before any work starts. The plan, when the answer is not yet, is advisory: scoped and quoted up front, approved before we begin. When the answer is fundable and we take your file to a lender, there is an upfront component because PFG does not control the lending markets, so we do not tie our whole fee to an outcome we cannot own. Lenders pay us nothing on either path, so no lender can buy our recommendation. No surprise invoices either way.

I have already been declined twice. Is there a point?

Declines are the usual starting point, and they rarely come with reasons attached. The read attaches the reasons. Sometimes the file was fine and it just went to the wrong lender, which is a matching problem. Sometimes the file genuinely was not ready, which is a plan. Either way, you know which one it is.

Will you shop my file to dozens of lenders?

No, and that is on purpose. Mass-blasting a file gets you calls, hard pulls, and the same generic terms everyone gets. We send it to the lenders that fit it, and nowhere else. Fewer submissions, better fit, no strangers holding your statements.

What is actually in the forward plan?

The list of what to fix, with each blocker named, the fix for each, the order they get fixed in, who does the work (you, PMG, us), and the review points where we re-run the read. Timelines depend on the gaps: bookkeeping cleanup runs on months, structural fixes can run longer. The plan states its own schedule.

What happens to my information?

It stays inside the engagement. Your file goes to a lender only as part of an application you authorized, and to PMG only when the plan involves accounting work. We do not sell inquiries, trade lead lists, or pass your statements to anyone you have not approved.

See what your file can actually do.

One read, one straight answer, and a plan in writing: the lenders that fit your file, or the steps that get you there. No hard credit check to find out.

Lenders pay us nothing. The only file our advice serves is yours.