Banks & Fairy Tales
Ask a bank for an overdraft and you get money that has to be repaid with interest, secured against something you own. Useful, sometimes necessary — but it is a debt, and it does not bring you a single new customer.
Ken’s account works differently. Every time it empties, it refills — not with borrowed money, but with sales from customers he did not have before. This is a parable rather than a product description, and it exists to make one distinction clear: the difference between money you have borrowed and value you have earned from capacity that was going spare.
This is the same story a Capacity Consultant would walk you through on a suitability call. Figures are illustrative.
What this story shows
- A trade-credit balance is earned by supplying real goods and services, not advanced against security.
- The balance is meant to move — earn, spend, earn again. A balance that only ever grows is not doing its job.
- Silvatree is not a bank, is not a lender, and Silva is not money or e-money.
- A conceptual illustration, with no personalisation and no figures specific to your business.
More stories
Interactive story
The £1,000 Mechanic
Pick your business and watch the real cost of settling a bill from spare capacity instead of cash.
Interactive story
Two-Pot World
Play a year in a restaurant and watch spare capacity cover the switchable bills.
Interactive model
Cashflow & Profit Model
Four steps: your position today, increased cashflow, increased profit, your results.
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