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In3 DFY Services – stepwise procedure

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In3 Capital Partner “Done-For-You” services entail three levels of review that will unfold, initially for 1) Basic fit with In3CAP funding (an expression of interest would be available at that point), then 2) Qualification for DFY services (checklist), with an application fee of five hundred USD ($500), and includes a thorough review of the current state of readiness, desired terms, and presentation, with a written Vetting Report delivered to the client, and finally, 3) Deeper Dive that will yield a mutually approved package of materials (the project’s “file”) that can be presented to In3-sourced sponsors to gain their support.

By design, the file will meet or exceed all standards for In3CAP funding’s due diligence, with extra attention to key risk factors, developer team’s presentation skills, economic case with transparent assumptions and market feasibility proof points.  Some sponsors have specific requirements that will be noted during Level 2’s qualification review.

Stepwise Procedures:

1. Initial screening for basic fit — Size, Sector, Stage and Security (the latter presumed not available from client doing that for themself, DIY) – what we call the 4 S’s.

2. Qualification for DFY services — a preliminary assessment that starts with our fast, heuristics-driven Readiness and Investment Navigator (RAIN) plus a review of available materials to benchmark bankability (now online at https://www.in3capital.net/rain/)

This DFY vetting uses our Due Diligence standards described at https://www.in3capital.net/due-diligence-requirements-for-project-funding/

3. Deeper Dive: Then we enter an agreement (via a tailored Engagement Letter) with DFY clients, which presumes $50,000, with $25k paid to In3 to deliver their verified package, including essential points highlighted per our proprietary systems, with the remaining $25k to launch the campaign for securing the asset-owning sponsor(s). 

The engagement letter offers detailed specifics for all terms and conditions.  The Security Deposit from one or more sponsors will be bespoke to the client, but in some cases will fit naturally with known sources, such as we currently have in certain markets or sectors.  Main ones as of Fall 2025:

a.  Anything that current Ground Lease companies would accept, such as Real Estate projects in or near major cities (top 50 of US and Canada) or other fully insured and risk-rated projects per a growing cadre of property lease companies.  More

b. Tax Credits — many markets offer tradeable or sellable tax credits that can be monetized for a DFY cash surety deposit.

c.  Standby Letter of Credit (SbLC), Avalized Promissory Note (AvPN) or other forms of financial guarantee for diverse solutions to the major issues of our times. We specialize in impact investing and find greater alignment and mutual benefit with this thematic approach. Here are some of the latest themes and sectors with known asset owner involvement to date:

  • Sustainable Fuels such as SAF, resource recovery, or other “first-of-a-kind” solutions to the major issues of our times, such as
  • Climate change mitigation
  • Affordable housing, “smart” cities and master-planned communities, healthcare facilities, green data centers,
  • Disadvantaged community affordable power, village electrification in the developing world
  • Safe storage solutions, such as the latest battery technologies, lightweight, high efficiency, or hydrogen fuel cells or other breakthrough innovations
  • Sustainable agriculture that makes up the yield gap with conventional, combining healthy soil row crops with regenerative (multi-paddock, adaptive grazing) ranching, agroforestry, water reclamation, water quality and distribution, ocean and fisheries regeneration, and many others.

4. Work together to deliver a mutually-approved package: Once the assessments are received and the client responses registered, we meet to review the implications of the assessments and next steps. This is most often going to result in an improved package, the main deliverable from the first phase of the Engagement Letter scope-of-work.

5. Launch and run the campaign and/or make introductions to identified sponsors for the client to meet and discuss project performance targets, risks or other disclosures, and initial terms. Meetings between developer and sponsor(s) may involving preparing the project developer to address these or other key points, basing the discussion on what the guarantor wants and needs to know, not on what the developer needs or wants to tell them. There’s usually no point “selling” the project, as the sponsor’s upside is proportional to the risk they take, which includes step-in rights in the unlikely event of developer default.

6. Contracting: Memorialize the arrangements with said sponsor(s) and proceed through the verification steps by type of proposed security using an ATV letter or equivalent. This ATV letter is not the responsibility of the client; In3 or the sponsor will provide it. Once delivered, it results in the client’s pre-qualification for funding, and then (following underwriting) CAP funding’s contract for the proposed investment as either a term sheet or directly into a binding investment agreement through respective legal counsels.

7. Financial closing: Delivery of the Security, financial closing and funding first draw within 60 days per the established (pre-approved) monthly draw schedule.

8. Capital flow: Draws of capital delivered, client builds and commissions project to begin commercial operations, Security released (allowed to expire on the annual maturity date if SbLC or AvPN, or on last draw if cash surety), then operations and cash flows begin as projected.