A business plan by its very nature is a document that is meant to be distributed to interested parties. If you are talking about the fundamental mechanisms of

A business plan by its very nature is a document that is meant to be distributed to interested parties. If you are talking about the fundamental mechanisms of how the thing actually works, then that is a different matter. No company on earth will want to tell everyone how they do it, but they are happy to tell everyone what business they are in. The "how" is not the business plan.