 The Rural Invest software, developed by FAO in the 2000s, is specially designed to develop small and medium-scale investment proposals across the agriculture sector. RIV20 is the most recent version of the software and builds upon feedback received from users in the field, capturing more than 20 years of experience. The software allows you to perform two levels of analysis for small-scale investment. First, you can create a business concept, which analyzes one year of full production for the business and determines whether it is worth it or not to continue with the business plan. If the business concept looks promising, you can then continue with developing the full business plan, which includes a multi-year analysis of all years prior to and including the year of full production. With its user-friendly interface and guided data entry, RIV20 makes it easy to ensure that every important aspect of your business plan is described. To develop comprehensive and complete results, there is an exhaustive qualitative information section, which details beneficiaries of the project, a market analysis, expected social and environmental impacts of the business, and an associated risk mitigation strategy. You can customize this section to better adapt it to your specific setting. To complete the business plan, you will insert costs and revenues in the three sections focused on quantitative information. If the software finds errors, it will display warning messages, which make it easier to correctly input costs and revenues. Rural Invest models the production or services of the business through activity blocks. By doing this, you can ensure that all the operation costs and revenues are reported systematically per selected reference unit and per cycle of production. Using activity blocks will help you to model any possible changes to the intensity of the business activities over time, and to have a precise estimation of the working capital. After filling the quantitative information required, the software will calculate the amount needed to finance the investment and the working capital. In the Contribution section, you can simulate the loan needed to cover both the investment costs and the working capital. Once the business plan is finished, the last section will show you a visual summary of all the information inserted. You can download this information in Excel format to perform further analysis, or you can generate a visually appealing report through the software, which makes comparing business proposals much easier. There are two additional analyses which you can perform with RIV20. First, you can conduct a sensitivity analysis, which simulates the impact of a worst case situation or a best case situation on the future cash flow. Second, you can perform an incremental analysis to evaluate the added value of the with-project scenario compared with the without-project scenario, which is the current situation of the entrepreneur. The comparison will help visualize the impact of the investment. With RIV20, collaboration is made easy. The functionalities of cloud technology allow you to invite and collaborate with colleagues and share configurations, reports, and summary tables just by adding their email, address, or sharing a link. You can also leave comments to others, take notes, and see the history of activities in each project. Using Rural Invest makes it easier to prepare, evaluate, and fund small-scale investments. We aim to build national capacities through training and technical support to develop better solutions for access to finance. Through a blended approach, we offer a series of open and free eLearning courses in the FAO eLearning Academy and tailored face-to-face trainings, support to development projects, and access to a community of professionals and networking events. Contact us on cfi-ruralinvest at FAO.org.