Interest-rate planning The Fed Raised Rates: Stress-Test Your Floating-Rate Business Debt for 2027 The Federal Reserve raised its target rate by 25 basis points on September 16, 2026. If your business carries a floating-rate revolver, asset-based facility, or variable-rate term loan, the useful response is not to predict the next meeting. It is to calculate...
AI Consumption Is Now a Line Item: How to Control Your Business’ Token Spend Because these systems are stateless, the whole conversation is re-sent on every turn, so cumulative cost tracks n(n+1)/2 rather than n. Both trajectories are drawn on one shared scale. Your AI bill grows with usage rather than headcount, which makes it...
How Capital Source Uses AI to Deliver Faster, Smarter Business Financing Decisions In commercial finance, the answer is the product. Business owners do not just want capital, they want clarity fast enough to act on it. Here is how Capital Source built its underwriting and execution around decisiveness, and how AI has supercharged a speed...
What the Fed’s Rate Hold (and Hawkish Tone) Means for Business Borrowing The Federal Reserve held rates steady in June 2026, yet the accompanying language and the committee’s own projections leaned in a firmer direction. What follows is a measured account of what a hold of this character does to your cost of capital, and...
How to Negotiate Better Financing Terms (the I FORESAW IT Framework) Most owners walk into a financing conversation ready to argue about one number, the rate, and leave the rest of the agreement on the table. The terms you do not negotiate are the ones that govern your flexibility for years. The good news is...
