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Build Before
Black Friday

The Challenge: Personal Credit. Business. Business Credit.

Start your business, structure it for funding,
and build the credit that opens doors.

Black Friday is coming. Use the time between now and then to start a business, build business credit, create an extra stream of income, and fix your personal credit at the same time.

Timeka Ashanti, founder

Where you are is not where you have to stay.

Timeka Ashanti

For fifteen years, I've made it my work to take complicated credit information and turn it into something everyday people can actually understand and use. Along the way, I've had the honor of educating over 100,000 people on fixing their credit and building real financial literacy, and I'm the author of the Amazon bestseller The Credit Dictionary (over 100 letter templates), Wake Up, It's Time to Build Your Business Credit, The No Mail Playbook, and a growing library of financial education books.

My mission has always reached further than any single service. I want people to understand credit, understand the process, and become more financially educated, with tools they can return to long after any sale ends.

That's exactly why the Build Before Black Friday Challenge exists. My goal is simple: make credit education and financial information affordable no matter what your price point is, and give you a real next step, whether that's a DIY tool, a physical binder, a business income community, or working with me directly. School of C.R.P. is growing into more than credit education. It's becoming a home for credit, income, and business, all in one place.

THE BUILD BEFORE BLACK FRIDAY CHALLENGE

Four builds. One finish line.

Funding goes to businesses that are set up, earning, and creditworthy. This challenge builds all of that at once, while you clean up your personal credit.

Build 1
Start The Business

Launch a physical or digital business. Pick the idea, set up the basics, and get your first offer in front of real customers.

Build 2
Structure For Funding

Set your business up the way lenders and grantors expect to see it, so you are ready when opportunities come.

Build 3
Create Sales And Income

Get sales and an extra stream of income moving, and keep records that show it.

Build 4
Build Business Credit

Start a business credit profile separate from your personal credit, the foundation for being funded on your business's own strength.

And all along the way, you keep fixing your personal credit.

BUILDING TOWARD FUNDING

The road from idea to funding-ready.

Funding is the result of a foundation, so the order matters. Here is the path the challenge walks you through.

  1. 1
    Start and structure the business. Choose your business type, register it, and get your EIN.
  2. 2
    Separate the business from you. Open a business bank account and set up a business phone, address, email, and website.
  3. 3
    Build business credit. Create your business credit profile and open vendor accounts that report to the business credit bureaus.
  4. 4
    Earn and document income. Make sales, track revenue, and keep clean records.
  5. 5
    Strengthen your personal credit. Review your reports for accuracy and work your credit plan with the DIY tools and binder.
  6. 6
    Prepare to apply. Get your funding profile and documents ready, and explore grants alongside lending options.

CHOOSE YOUR NEXT MOVE

What are you working on?

Fix It Yourself
DIY Credit Products

For people who are ready to understand their credit and take action themselves.

Shop DIY Credit Tools
Get Organized
The 800+ Society Credit Binder

A physical system to organize your credit journey, paperwork, disputes, goals, and progress.

Shop The Binder
Create More Income
The Income Room

Home of the Build Before Black Friday Challenge: start, structure, and fund a business while building income and business credit.

Don't just fix the credit. Build the income too.

$19.99 then $297 starting October 15, 2026

Enter The Income Room
Build With Timeka
Private Coaching

For entrepreneurs who don't just want another ebook or course, and want personalized guidance building their business, brand, offers, and income strategy.

Work With Timeka

FOR THE SELF-STARTERS

Ready to do it yourself?

You don't have to wait for someone else to start working on your credit.

School of C.R.P.'s DIY resources are designed to give you the tools, education, and systems that help you better understand and manage your own credit journey.

Digital DIY
Credit Program
$19
  • ✕ No Done For You Service
  • ✕ No Physical Product
  • ✓ Complete Digital DIY Program
  • ✓ No-Mail Method Included
  • ✓ 100+ Dispute Letters
  • ✓ Bonus: Full School of C.R.P. Access
Start DIY For $19

MORE THAN A BINDER

An organizational system for your whole credit journey.

The Credit Repair Binder keeps your credit information, correspondence, goals, trackers, and credit-building resources together in one place, so nothing falls through the cracks.

The 800+ Society Blueprint, physical A5 binder interior
The 800+ Society
Credit Binder
$49
  • ✕ No Done For You Service
  • ✓ Physical A5 Binder, Shipped
  • ✓ Digital Copy Included
  • ✓ Complete Digital DIY Program
  • ✓ No-Mail Method Included
  • ✓ 100+ Dispute Letters
Get The Binder For $49

NO NEED TO WAIT

You don't have to wait until January to change your financial future.

You don't have to wait for a new year to start improving your credit, launching a business, creating additional income, building business credit, or preparing for funding. Start where you are, use what you have, and begin building toward the financial future you want.

Whether you're repairing your personal credit, starting your first business, growing an existing one, or learning how to access funding opportunities, The Income Room gives you educational resources and tools to help you take your next step.

Better financial habits Entrepreneurship Funding preparation Homeownership prep Vehicle financing prep Financial organization Business building

Start now.

Build before Black Friday.

Enter the new year funding-ready.

Start Building Today

FREE MONEY, GRANTS & FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Your next opportunity could be one application away.

Discover grant opportunities, learn how to prepare applications, and explore funding resources that may help support your business, nonprofit, family, or next big idea. Whether you're already operating a business or just getting started, The Grant Vault is designed to help you research opportunities and understand how to apply.

Business & Startup Grants Women & Minority-Owned Business Grants Nonprofit & Community Grants Individual & Family Assistance Grants Creative & Entrepreneur Grants Grant Writing & Application Resources
New To Grants?
Start Here.
  • How to identify legitimate grant opportunities
  • How to research eligibility requirements
  • How to prepare a strong application
  • How to write a basic grant proposal
  • How to create a grant-ready business or nonprofit profile
  • How to avoid grant scams and unnecessary application fees
Explore The Grant Vault

Grants are competitive, availability changes, and awards are never guaranteed.

MORE FROM TIMEKA

My Brands

A NOTE ON BUDGET

I don't want money to be the reason you don't start.

I know times are hard. That's exactly why this challenge has more than one way in.

If you're just getting started, the DIY tools and the Credit Repair Binder make it possible to begin without a big commitment. When you're ready to build income or want hands-on guidance, the Income Room and private coaching are here too. No shame attached to wherever you're starting from, and no lesser version of the mission at any price point.

Start where you can. Learn. Build. Keep going.

The fine print, in plain language

Dispute resources are designed to help you review your credit information for accuracy and exercise your applicable consumer rights. No specific credit score increase, deletion, account removal, funding outcome, or loan or homeownership approval is promised or guaranteed by any product on this page. Business, income, and coaching resources are educational and supportive in nature. No specific income, revenue, or business outcome is promised or guaranteed. Business credit, funding, and grant resources are educational: no business credit approval, loan, line of credit, or funding is promised or guaranteed, grants are competitive, availability changes, and grants are competitive, availability changes, and no award is ever guaranteed. Individual results vary based on each person's unique circumstances, effort, and starting point, and no particular outcome or timeline can be guaranteed.

BUILD BEFORE BLACK FRIDAY

Start the business.
Build the credit.
Get funding-ready.

$19 Digital DIY Credit Program
$49 The 800+ Society Credit Binder
$19.99 The Income Room, then $297 starting Oct 15
Apply Private Coaching With Timeka

Wherever you're starting from, there's a next step here.
Start your build.