Clifton Cessant and Tristan Young, Co-Founders of Credit Success Network
Clifton Cessant (left) & Tristan Young (right) — Co-Founders
About the Founders

Meet Clifton & Tristan

Co-Founders of Credit Success Network. Over $6.7M in client funding secured. Featured across 735+ media outlets including AP News, Yahoo Finance, Business Insider, and Benzinga.

$6.7M+
CLIENT FUNDING SECURED
50,000+
DISPUTES PROCESSED
735+
MEDIA OUTLETS REACHED
10+
YEARS IN CREDIT

The Mission

Credit Success Network exists for one reason: the credit system is built to confuse the people it judges. Most consumers walk into a major financial decision — a mortgage, an auto loan, a small business credit line — and discover their score is the gatekeeper. By then, it's too late to negotiate.

Clifton and Tristan co-founded CSN to flip that equation. The firm's restoration process combines aggressive dispute strategy under the Fair Credit Reporting Act with funding placement that meets clients where they are. The result: clients who walk in with damaged credit walk out with a score that opens doors — and the playbook to keep it that way.

Background

Credit Success Network was built by two founders who came up against the same broken system their clients face: a credit report full of items nobody recognizes, a process that treats "verified" as a wall instead of a question, and a financial industry that benefits from the confusion. Together, Clifton and Tristan learned the FCRA and FDCPA front to back, built a dispute methodology that produced real results, and paired it with a business-funding practice — turning a shared frustration into a firm.

Today, Credit Success Network has helped clients access more than $6.7 million in business funding and processed over 50,000 dispute rounds. Their work has been recognized in a feature story syndicated across 735+ media outlets, including AP News, Yahoo Finance, Business Insider, and Benzinga.

From the CSN Blog

Clifton writes regularly on the CSN blog, covering the strategies and laws that most credit-repair content gets wrong:

Featured In

Credit Success Network's feature on credit restoration was syndicated to 735+ media outlets. A selection of the major ones:

AP News
Associated Press
Yahoo Finance
Markets
Business Insider
Markets
Benzinga
Markets
KTLA 5
Los Angeles
WGN 9
Chicago
FOX 8
Cleveland
FOX 5
San Diego