BizPlanBuilder

You wrote your plan with us. Welcome back.

Two million copies over 35 years.
One place to find each other again.

Maybe you bought it as JIAN, on floppy disks.
Maybe you raised your first round with it last year.
Either way, you are part of this community.

Somewhere along the way, we lost touch.
Addresses changed. Inboxes got filters.
Mail you asked for stopped arriving.

So Burke Franklin and Earthgrid built a place
where the line doesn’t break.
Messages, live chat and AI, with real people.

The original BizPlanBuilder box from JIAN — Where it started: BizPlanBuilder, from JIAN.

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1 Come back in Any email you ever used still counts. 2 Meet Burke The Business Black Belt behind it. 3 What plans built Companies funded, grown and sold. 4 What’s inside Messages, live chat, AI and a weekly class.

1. Come back in

Any email you ever used still counts

We kept the list of everyone who ever bought
or registered BizPlanBuilder.
Old addresses included.

Join or log in with any of those addresses.
Earthgrid matches you to the community,
even if you moved on from that email years ago.

It takes three steps:

Join free, or log in if you already have Earthgrid.
Say hi in Messages. A real person reads it.
Find Burke and the rest of the community.

BizPlanBuilder on screen — BizPlanBuilder, now in the cloud.

Did you stop hearing from us?

You may never have unsubscribed

Some mail filters open links in email
before a person ever sees the message.
Unsubscribe links included.

If our mail went quiet and you never said goodbye,
that may be why.
Here, nothing stands between you and the community.

Cartoon: a free email company's robot arm clicks Unsubscribe while the BizPlanBuilder email flies into the trash. A frustrated reader with an empty inbox says: I never unsubscribed! The fine print reads: you agreed. — Free email comes with fine print.
Someone clicked. It wasn’t you.

2. Meet Burke

Burke Franklin, the Business Black Belt

Founded JIAN in 1988, now Business Power Tools.
Created BizPlanBuilder, and still builds it.
Wrote Business Black Belt, for conscious capitalists.
Holds a second-degree black belt in TaeKwonDo.
Teaches a weekly class on Earthgrid.

Burke and I go back thirty years.
We have watched the same thing happen
to everyone who built something real.

You sell to your customers for decades.
Then one day you can’t reach them.
Not because they left. Because the line did.

That is why Earthgrid exists.
Burke’s community is the first we are rebuilding.

Viktor Grant, Founder and CTO of Earthgrid

3. What plans built

Thirty-five years of plans that worked

2,000,000+copies sold

35+years of plan writers

160colleges and universities

1,200+consultants recommend it

Figures from Business Power Tools.

Behind those numbers are people.
A few of their stories, from Burke’s site:

$75,000,000+ Brian Kahan, Boca Raton, FL

Grew a plan into a company in five states, then sold it to a larger public company.

$15K to $4M Curt Tomlinson, Seisan Consultants

Grew over 100% a year, then sold the business for $7.5 million.

$500,000, twice Claudia Cody, business consultant

Funders noticed the detail of the plan and the financial projections.

“The customizable encyclopedia of everything you need to know about your business.”

Michael Gerber, author of The E-Myth

4. What’s inside

One account, one community

Messages.
Write to Burke, to our team, and to each other.
Your message link is a number that never changes.
Live chat.
Rooms where plan writers, founders and advisors
help each other in real time.
AI that works with every AI.
Research your market, check your numbers,
and stack answers from the engines you trust.
A weekly class.
Burke teaches live on Earthgrid.
Bring your plan. Bring your questions.
BizPlanBuilder itself.
Still the tool, still built by Burke.
See the current version.

Inside BizPlanBuilder: start on the Business Plan tab, then your financial models and pitch deck — Inside BizPlanBuilder: start with the Business Plan tab.

BizPlanBuilder financial summary, ready for funders

Come back in

Your plan got you started. Your people keep you going.

Joining is free. It takes a minute.
Use any email you ever gave BizPlanBuilder.

Come back in, free Log in Talk to a human first

Viktor Grant, Earthgrid
with Burke Franklin, BizPlanBuilder

Two million plans.
One community, back together.