May 6, 2023 is the starting point for this journey. I had health concerns, I was flat broke, and my credit scores were around 500. Today, my scores are in the 700s, and I’m working toward buying a home.
Taking action was the catalyst. I pursued the credit bureaus and the creditors directly, using legal steps, keeping records, and following through. I didn’t simply wait for everything to clear naturally.
That experience is becoming the foundation of my Stan Store: one-on-one calls, reusable templates, and PDF guides for preparing conversations, making clear requests, documenting responses, and following up.
The tree below shows how it fits together. The two branches are bureau contact and direct creditor contact. They come back together through tracking responses, outcomes, and scores. From there, the experience becomes calls, templates, and guides people can use.
The timeline starts with May 6, 2023, moves through action and follow-through, and reaches my current position in October 2026. The next major milestone is buying a home. I still need to assemble the specific dates and correspondence behind the intermediate steps.
I’m building the business plan around this now. I’ll use ChatGPT and Claude to challenge assumptions and refine the offers, pricing, marketing, and next steps. My experience supplies the foundation; the plan still has to prove that people find the tools useful.
Build the business. Build the future. Keep score.
Download the organization tree, timeline, and business-plan brief (PDF)