Borrower chase
Requests, uploads, emails, forms, and follow-ups stay attached to the same 504 package instead of scattering across inboxes and shared drives.
§ Who We Serve - CDCs
SBA 504 packages without the file archaeology.
A CDC is not just collecting a loan application. It is coordinating borrowers, affiliates, third-party lenders, eligibility evidence, closing conditions, SBA documentation, and the story someone may question months later.
The package, the facts, and the decision trail stay together.
CORE gives CDC teams a controlled workspace for required documents, borrower and affiliate facts, ownership structure, eligibility evidence, lender conditions, memo support, and audit history - with citations back to the source file. The 504 package itself is a configured collection package in CORE - base plus add-ons - and the memo follows your template, not a vendor's.
Required docs, workflows, entities, and file review in one project§ CDC Reality
The problem is not one missing document. It is the chain.
Entity and affiliate facts
Borrower, guarantor, affiliate, ownership, and project facts can be reviewed against the documents that produced them.
Eligibility evidence
Program claims should resolve to source documents, accepted facts, and dated rules before they appear in the memo.
Third-party coordination
CDC teams can keep lender conditions, borrower materials, internal review, and package status visible without rebuilding context.
Analyst-owned AI
CORE can draft and flag, but the CDC analyst accepts, edits, or rejects the work before it becomes part of the record.
SBA-ready replay
When a question comes back, the team can follow the claim to the source span, decision, event, and export path.
§ Fit
Where CORE fits a CDC shop
The first value is control of the package. The AI matters because the file is already structured enough to trust it.
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SBA 504 required document collection, release stages, and missing-item tracking
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Borrower, guarantor, affiliate, ownership, and project fact review
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Third-party lender, closing condition, and internal package coordination
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Eligibility evidence tied to source documents and accepted analyst facts
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Credit memo support with specialist routing and analyst-owned decisions
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Audit replay and export for SBA, internal review, or board questions
§ Path
What a CDC rollout should feel like
Mirror the package
Map required docs, workflows, borrower entities, lender conditions, and CDC review points exactly as the team works today.
Load real deals
Bring active or anonymized files into CORE and compare collection, extraction, and review against the current package flow.
Prove the memo path
Use AI where source-cited work helps, while the CDC analyst keeps control of judgment, edits, and final acceptance.
Replay the record
Filter the event trail by document, entity, analyst action, eligibility claim, memo section, or package status.
§ In Depth
SBA 504 software for shops where the package is the product.
The debenture calendar is the real workflow
504 work is deadline-structured in a way generic loan software never models: the file must be assembly-ready on SBA's clock, not the borrower's. Requirements, conditions, and review states in CORE are built to answer the operational question a CDC actually asks — is this package ready, and if not, exactly what is missing?
Eligibility is an evidence problem
Occupancy, job creation, project cost support — 504 eligibility lives or dies on collectable, citable evidence. CORE treats each eligibility element as a structured requirement with source-linked support, so the package defends itself instead of relying on a veteran's memory of where the support went.
Packaging depth over platform breadth
A CDC evaluating software is usually offered breadth it will not use — deposit workflows, product lines, bank-scale administration. The better trade is depth on the one thing the CDC does at volume: the 504 file, configured as a program with its own collection package, policies, and memo structure.
§ Next Step
Bring the 504 package that keeps coming back.
We will walk through the borrower file, the evidence trail, and the review path instead of showing a generic demo deck.