SHANE PIERSON · SBA DATA
About the Proprietor

The Lord of Free Information.

For my favorite people.

Shane Pierson seated on a throne built from stacked newspapers
Yes, that is a throne of newspapers. Somebody has to read all of it.

I’m Shane. I move SBA capital to Main Street for a living, and at night I read what the whole federal record actually says and publish it. All of it, free, no sales pitch attached. The photo is a joke I mean completely. I really did build a throne out of newsprint, because somebody has to read all of it, and I decided it might as well be me.

The SBA record is public, and most of it sits buried where nobody bothers to look. I pulled all 2,174,502 loans, reconciled every figure to the agency’s own year-end totals, and put it on a map anyone can open. I do not charge for it and I never will. The people I built it for — brokers, bankers, owners, and the plain curious — already pay enough for worse.

Build the thing, keep it honest, and give most of it away.

That rule runs through everything I make. Lords of Lending teaches the trade. FiTech builds the software. By Lord Redeemed sets the honest part to music. Lords of Destiny hands my three kids the keys. Sethaal is the novel. This page is the ledger, and it balances in public.

I’m a husband of twenty years and a father of three, and I still cannot quite get over the fact that the data is free for the taking. So I take it, and I hand it to you. The title on the newspaper throne is self-appointed and non-transferable: Lord of Free Information, for my favorite people. Welcome. You are one of them now.

2,174,502
Loans read, cover to cover
$0
To use any of it, ever
680+
Pages, all free
Every number
Traced to a receipt
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The whole thing is free

Start with the map.

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