Cohort Capital vs. Revenue-Based Financing

Revenue-based financing, grown up.

Same idea you already bought into — capital tied to performance. Our non-recourse structure offers: no blanket lien on your business, no weekly minimum floor, no daily debit, and nothing owed if a cohort underperforms.

Non-recourse · No personal guarantee · No daily debits · Hard return cap · Paid only from financed gross profit
The one difference that matters

You moved to revenue-based financing because capital should be tied to how your customers actually perform. Read the contract, though, and most of it isn't. The difference is structural — and it's the whole reason this page exists.

In one sentence
Revenue-based financing prices a slice of your whole company's revenue and secures it against everything you own. We price one cohort's gross profit — and can claim nothing else.
Side by side

The structure, point by point

 Revenue-based financingCohort Capital
What it claims✕ UCC-1 blanket lien over all business assets1✓ Claim limited to the financed cohort's gross-profit receivable
If a cohort underperforms✕ Fee still owed in full; weekly minimum floors apply1✓ You owe nothing more — genuinely non-recourse
How it's collected✕ Daily / weekly debit off total sales2✓ A share of the cohort's gross profit, only as it arrives
What it's priced on✕ A blended revenue trajectory — the whole company✓ The specific cohort's gross profit — the actual asset
Cost ceiling✕ Flat fee owed regardless; clawback on refunds1✓ Hard 1.30× cap; 100% above the cap is yours
Personal guaranteeOften none, but a secured claim on the business3✓ None — and no blanket lien either

Sources noted at the foot of the page. Competitor terms vary by provider and offer and change frequently; figures current as of 2026 and provided for comparison, not as a quote.

What's usually in the fine print

The parts that don't make the landing page

The blanket lien

A UCC-1 filed against all your business assets. Your next bank or credit line sees it — and can decline you because of it.1,3

"Flexible only upward"

A weekly minimum repayment floor overrides the friendly "percentage of sales" the month your sales dip — exactly when you needed the flexibility.1

The daily debit

A slice of every day's sales leaves your account before you can deploy it into the next cohort or inventory. Collection frequency and terms vary by provider.

The clawback

A customer returns an order you already paid the revenue share on — and you don't get that share back.1

On cost — straight

We won't quote you a rate we'd have to defend

A "5–10% fee" on a revenue-based advance is not a 5–10% cost of capital. Because the daily debit pays it down continuously, a 10% fee on a six-month payback works out to roughly a 40% effective annualized cost5 — and the faster you repay, the higher it climbs.

Our cost is in a comparable range, but it behaves differently: it's capped at 1.30×, disclosed before you sign, recovered only as the cohort performs, and owed against nothing but that cohort. We compete on structure and risk — not on a headline number.

Want the full arithmetic?
We did the forensic breakdown of a $1,000,000 revenue-based advance — the real effective rate, the lien, and the cash-flow drag — in one read. What a $1M advance actually costs →
If you're carrying one now

Consolidate the advance. Stop the daily debit. Free the lien.

The fastest thing we can do for a brand mid-advance is fold the remaining balance into capped, non-recourse capital — removing the blanket lien and stopping the daily drain in a single step, so the cash is there to fund your next cohort.

$0
Owed beyond what a cohort earns — non-recourse
1.30×
Hard cost cap — disclosed before funding
5–10
Business days from data room to funding
No
Daily debits · no blanket lien · no guarantee
Consolidate an advance
Straight answers

Questions operators actually ask

See it on your own numbers.

We underwrite the cohort, fund what works, and tie our return to its performance — capped, non-recourse, and aligned. No daily debit. No lien on your business.

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Sources: 1 Reported RBF contract terms (UCC-1 blanket liens, weekly minimum floors, refund clawbacks): ask-luca.com (2026). 2 Daily % of sales remittance: finder.com Wayflyer review (2026). 3 UCC filings as secured claim without personal guarantee: ask-luca.com working-capital guide (2026). 4 Texas HB 700 prohibition on automatic debits (eff. Sept 1, 2025): Mayer Brown (2025). 5 Effective-APR range on RBF flat fees (~28–56%+): ask-luca.com (2026); see our full teardown for the worked arithmetic.

Cohort Capital purchases, on a non-recourse basis, future gross-profit receivables generated by specifically underwritten customer cohorts. This is not a loan and not a merchant cash advance. Comparisons describe general, third-party-reported features of revenue-based financing and may not reflect any specific provider's current terms. All figures are illustrative examples, not an offer, quote, or commitment to fund; terms depend on underwriting and vary by brand profile.