Business planning just got easier with BizPlanBuilder®—the system created from real entrepreneurial experience, supporting the practical needs of ambitious business builders.
Business “Planning” – Simplified:
From Bold Idea to Real-World Impact
Transform your ideas into action with the proven business system, built for growth & funding.
BizPlanBuilder streamlines business planning—equipping entrepreneurs and teams with the tools to model, refine, and present strategies for growth, funding, and ultimate exit success.
Get the fastest, simplest tool to frame the foundation and direction of your business.
If this isn’t your first business, you’ll appreciate the time and effort these tools save.
If it is, you just got your first big break…
Why Business Power Tools… Why you… Why now…
Show the market you’re not just a thinker, but a doer — with a compelling, execution-ready launch plan proving you can deliver on your vision.
“I can’t afford to get this wrong—my funding
(and future) depend on a bullet-proof plan.”
Investors and lenders keep saying, “Send me your business plan,” yet most founders stare at a blank page or a half-baked template, terrified it will get shredded in the first round of questions.
“I’m drowning in chaos and wasting precious time.”
Juggling spreadsheets, cobbled-together docs, and contradictory advice eats up nights, weekends, and momentum. Every hour lost to reformatting numbers or hunting for the “right” template is an hour your competitor steals the market.
“My credibility is on the line.”
One misstep—an unrealistic forecast, a missing clause, a sloppy presentation—can brand you as amateur. You need investor-ready polish now or risk walking away empty-handed (and embarrassed).
You’re not starting from scratch—you’re sharpening the intuition & skills you already have.
With BizPlanBuilder now, you’ll turn the plan in your head into the deal-closing machine your business needs.
I was tired of writing business “plans!”
That’s why I invented business planning software.
And sold 2 million copies to other overwhelmed business builders like you.
At the same time we perfected it from working with thousands of entrepreneurial visionaries like you…
JIAN® has rebranded to Business Power Tools®.Imagine slashing two-thirds of the time it normally takes to craft an investor-ready business plan,
locking in professional credibility, and stepping into every pitch knowing you’ve already answered
the tough questions. That’s exactly what the BizPlanBuilder® business planning system delivers.
Evolved, trusted and used by entrepreneurs for 30+ years, login to a secure platform, loaded with
an integrated collection of guided document templates, automated financial models, and real-world
direction the moment you open it. Instead of wrangling chaos, focus on funding and growth.
It started with a strategic deal with Apple.
A long time ago, a friend had a deal going with Apple to use his engineering software in their circuit design.
Apple wanted a better idea of how he planned to stay in business, support the system, and continue development.
Without a thorough, persuasive plan, no deal.
Our “business plan” for Apple needed to speak
to multiple people in different departments, with various responsibilities and biases, at all levels.
It worked. We got the deal.
Over the next year a number of people came to me for business plan surgery. Many of them had brilliant ideas, but were unconvincing about their product/market fit, business model, marketing strategy, or financial plan.
What worked for them evolved into BizPlanBuilder® – the business plan that makes sense connecting entrepreneurs and investors.
Here’s the newest version.
~ Burke Franklin, Creator & CEO,
Business Power Tools & BizPlanBuilder
Read the Full Origin Story Here
Your team, investors, partners, and acquirers will have a lot of questions…
Inspire them with the clarity and context compelling them to champion your company.
You’re about to get your hands on the smartest way to go about creating and communicating the BIG picture.
Investor-ready plans, financial models, within one platform enabling secure team collaboration already trusted by 2M+ entrepreneurs.
Designed to fit seamlessly into your workflow and scale with your company.
When Michael Gerber saw it, he said…
“Wow! It’s the customizable encyclopedia of everything
you need to know about your business… but were afraid to ask!
It’s the mechanism to implement everything I teach about
working ON your business vs. IN it!”
~ Michael E. Gerber, Author: “The E-Myth”, Michael E. Gerber Companies
Investor recommends the financial models to his clients.
“Now I can recommend a standardized financial proforma that all of my clients can use. BizPlanBuilder’s financial model has just the right level of detail (without too much!) in the same format every time, eliminating the crazy-making submissions from so many amateurs I used to get.”
~ Robert Steven Kramarz, Partner, Shepherd Ventures III, Executive Director, Intelliversity, The Funding Academy for Innovators
Investors are looking at handful to 100 other deals…
“More and more investors these days are “Betting on the jockey, not the horse.”
That means you and your team. As you probably know, horse races are often “won by a nose.” The difference between gold and silver in the Olympics can be as little as a 1/100th of a second. Details matter. And you cannot BS your way through this, even with AI.”
~ Burke Franklin, Creator & CEO, Business Power Tools
Accelerated strategic business development toolset works with you
from concept to funding to market to ongoing operations… Even sale.
While you’re obsessing with your product and marketing, remember to develop your business to support it.
This is your plan of purpose, organization, priorities, investment, traction… to operate as a successful business.
“BizPlanBuilder is our BEST BUY because it cuts through the complexity of developing a plan and helps you produce slick-looking results. Its exhaustive template walks you through every step from cover letter to the appendix, with plenty of samples…
BizPlanBuilder also offers a better
collection of financial tables, ratios,
and projections than any competitor.”
~ Mike Hogan, PC World Magazine
It’s mission-driven strategic planning with team collaboration.
Define your vision and strategy upfront, so your team, investors, and partners
quickly understand what sets your business apart, increasing buy-in and support.
You’ve got a lot to do… You need all the help you can get.
You’re bringing something to the world and you must get it right.
BizPlanBuilder was created for you.
BizPlanBuilder also doubles as your secret weapon distancing you
from others competing for the same resources.
All along your business journey, your detailed plan / blueprint / roadmap
evolves with you as you progress:
- Start-Up – Your blueprint and reality check for getting started the right way, minimize mistakes,
and “bootstrap” growth. Perfect for covering all the bases and coordinating your team.
- Raising Capital – Build credibility and demonstrate believability with investors & lenders.
SBA loans require a business plan. (Investors & lenders actually read them.)
Can shave 3-6 months off the time it takes to get the money you need.
- Non-Profit – Demonstrates to donors that you will maximize their “Return on Impact”
- Growing – Your roadmap for repeatable, scalable processes for organization, building teams,
and leading your people. Control the chaos before it starts and continue growing smoothly.
- Onboarding – What faster way is there to get new team members engaged
and up-to-speed in your business?
- Struggling?!? – This sucks, but we’ve been there back when and our business plan
pulled us out of the ditch! This deal is easily within your reach and just may save your bacon.
- Marketing – It’s your foundation upon which you can base and coordinate all of your marketing.
The problem(s) you solve, customer demographics, competitive advantages…
- Deal with a Big Corp – Your sophisticated, winning proposal to management.
Builds credibility and proves you can deliver on a big deal.
(Business Power Tools started with a business plan for a client to land a deal with Apple.
That evolved into our BizPlanBuilder and everything else.)
- Ongoing Strategic Planning – It’s good to regularly revisit your “first principles:”
What’s changed? What do you want to change? Engages your team in a guided,
collaboration process that motivates them and makes it work.
- Licensing – Your alternative to building a company is licensing your product / intellectual
property to an established company with the resources, distribution, and sales force.
Paint the picture, collect royalties.
- Sale – Builds your case for a profitable future upside and validates valuation.
Add the processes and systems that make it attractive to sell faster at a higher price.
- Succession – Everything your kids / new owners need to successfully continue what you started.
If you carry-back some of the financing, this is especially critical for you.
- All-of-the-Above – BizPlanBuilder is your growing, progressive catalog of everything about your business.
Why start from scratch?
Or with an empty fill-in-the-blanks template?
BizPlanBuilder’s organized system walks you step-by-step
through the process of preparing an effective plan / playbook.
Customizable sample business plans, flexible Excel financial models,
PowerPoint pitch template can be easily accessed anytime from anywhere
and enables secure collaboration with your team, advisors, or clients.
Our secret to your success is in the professionally drafted,
sample text refined over 36 years, annotated with pro tips throughout,
and intro videos inspiring and leading you through exactly what to say
and how to say it.
- Easily editable into your own words.
- Insert infographics, add images, and format everything your way.
It’s a detailed done-for-you roadmap for prioritizing your objectives,
defining your customers, planning your go-to-market strategy, and
making sure you’ve covered all the bases with your team and contractors.
It can save 3-6 months getting in front of investors.
It’s the fastest and easiest way to produce an investment-grade plan for funding.
And it’s a dramatic headstart on otherwise time-consuming Due Diligence.
It’s your “brochure” to distinguish your deal amongst investors,
partners, licensees, and ultimately acquirers.
Even share it online with investors (like a “Secure Data Room”).
Making ongoing changes is a cinch, so it’s easy
to improve your plan as your business evolves.
BizPlanBuilder has been repeatedly vetted with Banks, SBA lenders,
Angel investors, and Venture Capitalists worldwide with
more financing successes than any others.
Go beyond the written plan: Prepare confidently for real-world
conversations with investors, lenders, and your team,
using messaging aligned with what they need to hear.
No more new apps to learn. You already know how to use it.
All of our tools are easier to use than Office and easily accessible via our visual document management dashboard.
Step-by-step system turns confusion into a clear, actionable roadmap — eliminating guesswork and keeping your business on track.
It’s especially powerful for guiding you through what to do and how to do it.
As well as what to show and tell and how to show and tell it.
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Way more robust and flexible than LivePlan
“I have used BizPlanBuilder and it has an incredible amount of information, templates, spreadsheets, sample content, and tools in it. It is a very robust system (way more robust and flexible than LivePlan, if you ask me)! Burke has decades of experience with business financing and business planning software. I have also used Burke as a guest speaker to talk about pitch development and pitching angel investors, etc., as part of the ScaleUp program. Burke is a great resource for us to have available to us! ”
~ Liz Jamieson | Certified Business Advisor, Washington SBDC at Washington State University
Content, structure, and guidance are in place — Quickly and easily customizable by you and your team.
We’ve reinvented business “planning” to become a multi-purpose, coordinated and centralized catalog of everything about your business.
Add a million+ $$$ to your valuation?
- What if you could make a better case to improve your pre-money valuation by a $1,000,000+?
- How much more of your company would you keep?
- What would it be worth to produce a better business plan / roadmap / playbook?
At best, most other business plan apps or templates provide a bunch of empty pages with brief instructions for what to do…
Business Power Tools takes everything to another level entirely with specific direction for what to do and and how to do it, including:
← What to say and how to say it…
xxi Expertly drafted for you to
xxi complete in your own words.
← Ideas, direction, suggestions, warnings…
xxi hints from us in green text.
← Easily insert images, graphics, links…
xxi Format everything your way.
← Check the blue boxes to include just
xxi the sections you want to include.
Maximize valuation?
- Make a better case for a higher valuation.
- Keep more of your company.
- What would it be worth to produce a better plan?
We know this. We’ve lived through it.
And we developed BizPlanBuilder to deal with it.
All of it.
We’ve also used it ourselves with Angels and VCs,
an SBA loan, Lines of Credit, Vendor Financing,
an Acquisition, even with Mom!
Much of your appeal is won or lost in your meetings after your pitch…
Many investors are disciplined,
but most are very skeptical.
They fear losing their money more
than longing to strike it rich.
They’ll have a lot of questions!
They’ll contact their advisors and friends, and
they’ll come back to you with more questions.
They’re looking at other opportunities too.
You’ve got to be more convincing and
their best bet for succeeding.
We know this. We’ve lived it.
And we built BizPlanBuilder to deal with it.
All of it.
We’ve also used it ourselves with Angels
and VCs, SBA loans, Lines of Credit,
Vendor Financing, an Acquisition,
even with Mom!
SCORE counselors recommend BizPlanBuilder
“SCORE consultants recommend BizPlanBuilder business plan software. “I teach a class for SCORE on how to prepare a business plan. You will be pleased to know that most of our counselors recommend BizPlanBuilder to our clients. Thank you!”
~ Terry Little
“BizPlanBuilder employs a refreshing combination of the philosopher and expert mentor approach.”
~ Gerald Herter, CPA, MBA, Accounting Technology
“So much of company building I realized was about having a strong foundation.
I saw countless “hot” startups rise fast and then fail hard because they didn’t take time to build the right team,
the right foundation, and the right operating system to run a company.”
~ Taweed Kadar, Founder & CEO, ToutApp
100% customizable financial models do all the arithmetic for you.
Financial projections that make sense to you and are believable to investors.
Easy for not-so-financial people, magical for pros, makes complete sense to investors.
BizPlanBuilder includes CPA-tested financial models − Built in Excel® → Easily project Revenue, Costs, Profits, Cashflow, Valuation… And potential ownership give-up of any investor deal.
Completely configured, fully integrated,
and tastefully formatted.
Fill-in a few bite-sized tables with your assumptions and the system makes sense of it all, and produces a report like this that investors and lenders demand.
Easily play “What-If?” with your assumptions and ideas.
No need to be a spreadsheet or financial expert.
If you are, everything is 100% customizable.
“Burke and I have been acquainted for a number of years, and I’ve used and recommended his software solutions for business owners even longer. Let’s face it, writing a business plan is not at the top of the list of what most of us like to do. It’s a daunting task, and a tedious undertaking. Business Power Tools changes all that. You’ll find yourself creating a new plan or updating existing plans in record time, and you’ll feel confident in the quality like never before. I’d urge you to check it out. I think you’ll be truly surprised.”
~ John Kiser from Money Mentor (an MMOT, LLC enterprise)
Our advanced version of a business canvas — More depth & detail.
Try it right here. Now. The dashboard below is live. Click on it.
See how much more it offers than the typical business model canvas.
Click Login to join as a guest user → Open “My Account” (top right) → Insert your logo and business information.
Then click around! If you can use Office, this is easier. And the typing alone is worth over $1,000!
The big and small advantages that make Business Power Tools better.
In the exhilarating sprint to grow your business, make sure no critical elements are missed…
Here’s your streamlined system to successfully scale your company to millions and beyond.
Powerful synthesis of advice, books, classes, posts, videos, and webinars… Saves time and beats guesswork.
Everything about this system simplifies the tasks necessary to build a business of lasting value.
The Most Templates and Tools
All apps work alike and together.
- Almost ZERO learning curve!
- Does the job of hundreds of apps
without you wasting your time
learning to use every. Single. One.
- Easy-to-use system.
Complete critical projects quickly.- All tools are built on the same platform.
- Ongoing updates included.
- Collaborate without conflicting copies.
- Click from project to project.
Each works just as you’d expect.- Mindfully curated.
Developed and evolved over 35+ years.- Edited by a former Sharper Image®
catalog copywriter.
Everything is Fully Customizable
Your business your way.
- Private Label — Insert your own branding.
- Include your logo / slogan / tagline.
- Customize any / all of the templates.
- Company data fills in automatically
saves typing, speeds completion.- Upload your own content.
Create new, re-usable custom templates.- “Priorities” lists for every area.
- Excel-based calculators do / show
all the math for better decisions.
100% customizable for your business.- Insert your preferred RSS feeds.
- Consultants save time educating clients.
- Expedites due-diligence for
faster funding or sale.
Include unlimited team & advisors
Secure, collaborative workspace.
- Teams engage and buy-In to priorities,
changes, and what they help create.- Remote work empowered.
All team members, advisors, and investors
collaborate, contribute, or review.- For now, just +$1 / month each.
- CRM system tracks VIPs, projects,
campaigns, proposals, events.- Complete and secure control over
everything anyone can access.- App by app — Each with admin,
edit, or read-only privileges.- System keeps all documents secure
and organized for easy access.- Serves as a “Secure Data Room“
Accelerate your launch, reduce frustration, and build your venture
the right way from day one — saving time and avoiding costly missteps.
Think twice about the time & trouble when tempted by the free stuff.
Can you afford to waste 2-3 months figuring out what to do and how to do it?
Or skip that and use expertly composed, 100% customizable software-driven templates showing what to say and how to say it!
Here’s what you often get for free…
Really? That’s it? In This Case… NOTHING?!??
A blank form?
What are you supposed to say here?
What are investors, lenders, and others looking for?
Isn’t that why you’re here?
You don’t need more training!
By the time you read all the how-to’s, watch the videos,
and “learn” what to do an how to do it…
You can already have it implemented.
You need what took us 36 years to build and refine…
What cost us $1.7 million to perfect…
What generated more than 2,000,000 sales…
Available to you in minutes, not months.
Get in front of investors, lenders, or buyers as much as 3-6 months sooner!
Before someone else beats you to it!
Compare that with what you get with Business Power Tools.
NO BLANK PAGES. NO WRITER’S BLOCK!
Company info inserts in all the right places, saving even more typing.
Any blanks are filled-in with multiple-choice prompts you can actually use.
Easily customize everything to describe your unique business your way.
Just edit the parts you need, add your ideas, and build as you go.
You can do this…
“BizPlanBuilder really shines.
Quite simply, it’s the best way that I know to create a business plan that will get you the investors that you need to be successful.”
~ Brian Underdahl, Author, Small Business Computing for Dummies
Bonus: Contact Relationship Management (CRM) system
It’s built-in to the dashboard.
Business Power Tools CRM is an easy to use online contact management and small business marketing solution designed specifically to help growth and impact entrepreneurs get off the ground and build lasting value in your company.
We don’t claim to be an Infusionsoft, Ontraport, or SalesForce type of marketing automation system.
Instead, think of the Business Power Tools CRM for all of your internal communications and project management.
(You’re probably not going track your packaging vendor, close advisors, or VIP customers using a marketing automation system.)
Manages much more than just contacts.
Because it’s all online you can access your information securely from work, home or the road, and stay in touch with your customers anywhere / anytime.
- Calendar shows due dates for everything: Meetings, Events, Campaign Deadlines,
- Tasks: Your To-Do lists for everyone
- Contacts: Build comprehensive records — find and contact by multiple criteria
- Leads: The Sales process starts here
- Notes: Builds your business “brain trust”
- Events: Schedule & coordinate all activities
- Marketing Programs: Collaborate on all marketing campaigns
- Proposals: Track the progress of deals
- CRM Details Here
Scroll Down — See how you can get this CRM system FREE!
SEE TOOLSET PRICINGBonus: The ultimate employee and team motivation.
Shares of ownership.
Save cash, inspire your team with stock.
Here’s the legal paperwork you need to set up an incentive stock option plan to compensate key employees and contributors with stock options — Saving cash for growth while engaging your people even further.
Manages your Cap Table.
Easily track shares and options issued.
It also includes a comprehensive Excel®-based “Stock and Options Issuance Register” — just fill in the variables and print.
It’s a perfect complement to BizPlanBuilder when raising capital.
Details Here
Perfect for strategic planning, raising capital, SBA loans, and building a business your team and investors believe in.
It’s the business plan template to use when you don’t want to write business plan, but you know you need one.
All of the above + the dashboard.
Upgrade to the Complete Strategic Business
Growth Plan / Roadmap Development System
Updated BizPlanBuilder Business Planning System
Ideal for growing the company / Strategic planning / Financing
Bootstrapping / Concept evaluation / Budgeting
Start-ups raising capital / Pre-money valuation
Teaching students "Real World" business
Efficiencies for advisors & accelerators- Our Best Deal for Start-ups, Early stage, Growing companies, & Non-profits
Includes the most tools & template options
+ Expanded dashboard - Compatible with All Browsers
Progressive & scalable — Start small, Come back to edit or add more
Modular system with drag 'n drop sequencing — Follow step x step or jump in anywhere. - Includes Full Access to ALL Content on Selected Panels
Home, Business Plan, Finance, Legal, Management, R&D - Pre-Written, Done-For-You Sample Business Plans
150+ Industry-Specific Sample Plan Templates Get You Going
"SWOT" analysis crucial for strategic planning prioritizes
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & ThreatsUnlike every other business plan templates, we actually intend for you to be able to use our copy vs. having to delete it or rewrite it. - Wizard-driven Financial Model
Makes it Easy to Project Sales, Costs, Profits, Headcount - 3 Fully customizable Excel-based financial workbooks
"Visionary Funding", "Expansion Plan", and Non-Profit models
Easily adaptable to model your organization.
Just plug-in your numbers, no formulas, no need to be a CFO..
CPA reviewed.If you are an Excel user, you'll love the total flexibility to customize your financial model.
Need an Excel expert? You can find them in our Expert Referral Network! - Includes PowerPoint / Keynote
Investor presentation ("Pitch" deck) template
Tutorial guides you step-by-step through a successful presentation.
Comprehensive Handbook of Business Planning adds useful insight into raising capital. - Tutorial Videos Introduce Each Section
How to make it count!
What Investors & Lenders are looking for. - Supplemental Intro Letters, Templates, and Worksheets
Invite Advisors & Board Members
Cover letters to Friends & Family, Investors, Lenders...
"Elevator" pitch worksheet hones your perfect 30-second intro - Includes Incentive Stock Options Plan.
All necessary document templates.
Shareholder ownership tracking. - Includes Corporation & LLC formation Doc Templates
Articles, By-Laws, Operating Agreement, Unit Allocation... - Funding Resources
Sources of Angel Investors, Venture Capital, and Lenders.
"Funding Plan" strategy for attracting investors. - CONTACTS (CRM System) Manages:
VIPs, Vendors, Investors...
+ Tasks + Events + Programs + Proposals - Global 24/7 Secure Access
Automatic Back-up & Restore - Month To Month Subscription
No Contract, No Commitment, Cancel/Suspend Anytime
All your work is automatically saved.Use the system as long as you need it.
You may want to keep it open and allow investors and certain others read-only access. - Add Unlimited Number of Team, Advisors to Collaborate
for $1 / mo each.
Also between PCs Macs.
You control all access to panels/apps.Add an unlimited number of users...
Selected members of your team can access any/all of the apps in your subscription -- You control access as well as read / write or read-only permission. - * Secure Data Room for Sharing Investment Docs *
Include Investors, Lenders, Professors as Users
to Access & Review Plans, Models, and Pitch Deck