An investment
platform.
Built by lenders. Underwritten like an institution. Three active lending hubs — SBA, Film, Commercial Real Estate — from the team that funded $1.8B+ in SBA financing and built four SBA departments from zero.
Every CX division places deals through an established network of bank, credit union, and institutional capital partners — chosen deal-by-deal against the underwriting criteria of the transaction.
Pick your side of the table.
Borrower, broker, or capital partner — each lane enters the platform differently. Same standard applies to every deal that passes through.
Need capital.
Submit once. We route to the right division desk and place with the right lender.
Get Funded →Have a deal.
Sign up through the Lords of Lending broker portal. Protected commissions, institutional packaging, transparent placement.
Sign up to refer →Deploy capital.
Banks, debt funds, BDCs, family offices, and institutional allocators — anchor a forming desk or place inside an active book.
Lending Partners →SBA-led.
Three active hubs.
The flagship is CX SBA — built by the team that funded $1.8B+ in SBA financing across five institutions. CX Film and CX Commercial Real Estate sit alongside it. Every deal, every desk, moves through the same fundability standard before it reaches a lender.
CX SBA
The flagship lending hub. SBA 7(a) and 504 origination — packaging, lender placement, and closing for small business and acquisition financing. $1.8B+ funded by the team across institutional SBA careers.
Explore the desk →02 / FILMCX Film
Senior, gap, and bridge financing for independent film and TV. Tax-credit monetization, P&A loans, completion bonds.
Explore →03 / CRECX Commercial
Permanent and bridge debt for stabilized and value-add commercial real estate across asset types.
Explore →Built for the next deal, not the last one.
Senior debt. Bridge debt. Mezz.
Origination and placement across SBA, Film, and Commercial Real Estate today, with Private Credit and Equipment desks in formation. Direct lending where the balance sheet fits; lender placement where it doesn't.
Co-invest. Preferred. Joint ventures.
Selective LP check-writing alongside our lending book. Film slate SPVs, CRE value-add partnerships, private-credit co-invests.
Capital structuring.
Recapitalizations, debt-equity stack design, refinancings. Paid engagements when the right answer isn't one of our products.
Specialist franchises.
Shared capital.
Operating companies sit underneath CX Lending, each retaining its native franchise while leveraging the platform's relationships and underwriting discipline.
SBA origination franchise founded February 2024 by Shane Pierson, Stephanie Castagnier Dunn, and Brian Congelliere. Publishes The Lords of Lending Podcast and runs the Academy at learn.lordsoflending.com.
The proprietary AI fundability platform. Scores borrower readiness, surfaces lender-fit, and powers underwriting across every CX division.
What we're watching.
Short, structured reads from the desks — the kind of brief we'd send a borrower or broker mid-deal, published openly.
SBA 7(a) after the ceiling move.
What the higher program cap means for acquisition stacks, equity injection, and seller notes in 2026.
Read →Tax-credit monetization without haircut.
How we structure advances against qualifying state film-credit programs — and the traps that kill value.
Read →Unitranche vs. second-lien, explained.
Why sponsors pick one over the other — and how borrower leverage, covenant profile, and call protection differ.
Read →
learn.lordsoflending.com
The only SBA 7(a) training built by lenders who've funded $1.8B+ in SBA financing. 15 modules, 66 lessons, 179 quiz questions — taught by Shane, Stephanie, and Brian.
Five specialist desks.
Each division underwrites to the demands of its asset class. The full roster:
CX SBA
The flagship lending hub. SBA 7(a) and 504 origination — packaging, lender placement, and closing for small business and acquisition financing. $1.8B+ funded by the team across institutional SBA careers.
Explore the desk →CX Film
Senior, gap, and bridge financing for independent film and TV. Tax-credit monetization, P&A loans, completion bonds.
Explore the desk →CX Commercial
Permanent and bridge debt for stabilized and value-add commercial real estate across asset types.
Explore the desk →