Called on the 29th. Funded before payroll.
A managed IT services business, seven years trading and currently loss-making, called us on the 29th of the month. Invoices they had been counting on hadn't landed, and wages plus month-end bills were due within days. The ask was $500,000 against a hard deadline, from a business most lenders would decline on the P&L alone.
We structured it as an overdraft rather than a term loan, because the problem was a timing gap, not a funding shortfall, and framing it that way put the file in front of a lender who could read it properly. We worked it through with them after hours. It settled in time for payroll, priced below the facilities they were already carrying.