A signed contract, and no way to pay for the work before invoicing.

$25kregenerative working-capital bridge

77days to first return

152days to full recovery

0interest, equity or extraction

Ochre is capital that is out; teal is capital coming home. Every mark is a published date, set before the money moved — which is what makes this a test rather than a testimonial. Days are counted from funding, not from the calendar.

A $25,000 regenerative working-capital bridge, deployed through Elevate on 16 June 2026, lets NABU deliver a signed Google creative-production contract now instead of waiting on milestone payment — and starts returning to the pool 77 days later.

The problem was timing, not merit

NABU held a signed commercial contract with Google but faced a temporal mismatch: the creative work had to be paid for and delivered before the client invoice would clear. Under conventional financing, that cash-timing gap delays delivery and strains the team. The fragility is produced by timing, not by a bad project — which is the institute’s whole diagnosis, in one counterparty.

What the instrument does

The bridge covers NABU’s working capital so creatives are paid and the work proceeds on schedule. As client payments clear, the principal returns to the pool in two tranches — $15,000 at 77 days and the $10,000 balance at 152 days — redeployable into the next cycle. The instrument is non-extractive, single-cycle, and mission-aligned: the capital does the work and comes home.

Cycle 1Creative content production · global remote team · status: bridge deployed.

The second deploymentA parallel $25,000 to NABU × IHS Côte d’Ivoire, a 12-month mother-tongue literacy programme, funded the same day and returning from day 107.

What would falsify thisA tranche that does not arrive on its published date. Both dates are on the record in advance, which is the point.

The record

Every claim, and whether it has happened yet

Every figure below is marked achieved or projected. You should not have to read fine print to tell which is which.

Bridge deployed through Elevate$25,000Verified

Capital received by NABU16 Jun 2026Verified

Delivery completing30 Jun 2026Verified

Funding → first return ($15,000)77 daysVerified

Funding → full principal recovered152 daysVerified

Client payment cleared and returned to poolpendingTarget

Counterparty confirmation letter on filependingTarget

The recycling rate is a projection until a tranche is actually received, and is marked that way everywhere it appears.

Why publish dates in advance

A claim that can only be checked after the fact is not evidence. Publishing the return schedule before the returns arrive is what makes this a test rather than a testimonial — and it is the reason the two pending rows above are shown rather than omitted.