Separate the purchase-price calculation from the funded hiring plan. Estimate wages, payroll taxes, training and the working capital needed before additional revenue arrives. Check whether those amounts are already included in the negotiated financing rather than assuming they are. Spending alone does not make a position qualifying; reconcile the budget with the actual job requirements.
Where the hiring money sits in the deal
If part of your capital is committed but not yet transferred, an actively-in-the-process-of-investing arrangement may still qualify; there is no universal rule that everything must be paid before filing. Read escrow release conditions closely, since they determine when funds reach the enterprise. Contractual repayment or refund rights can exist, but immigration approval never guarantees recovery of the capital.
Add applicable project charges, government fees and professional costs separately; not every expense is qualifying capital. Administrative fees charged by a regional-centre project sit outside the qualifying capital and do not count toward it. USCIS charges a filing fee for the investor petition and, at the end of conditional residence, for Form I-829, at the amounts on the current fee schedule, which this site does not quote because it changes.