The Problem:
Your Pro-Forma is a Fantasy
You're deploying millions based on a pitch deck. The facility is "state-of-the-art," and the projections show 5.5 harvests a year. But the greatest risk to your capital isn't the market—it's the gap between that financial model and the physical reality of cultivation.
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This is the "Green Fault Line," and it's where investments go to die.
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The "CapEx Seduction": You funded a multi-million dollar "Ferrari" of a facility, but the operational budget (OpEx) can't afford the "gas and tires." The operation starves itself to death.
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The "Calendar Trap": Your IRR projections are based on 5.5 harvests per year. The facility's dry/cure space can only physically handle 3.5. Your revenue forecast is impossible.
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The Hidden Liability: The $5M acquisition target you're looking at has a $50,000 dry room, a 40% undersized irrigation system, or an HVACD design that guarantees crop failure. Your "asset" requires another $2M in emergency CapEx.
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The "State-of-the-Art" Fallacy: You're funding "advanced automation" that, without proper monitoring, isn't reducing risk—it's amplifying it, creating single points of catastrophic failure.
Our Solution:
Your Technical Translator
We are your ground-truth engine. We translate the "Plant" (PAR, VPD, IPM) into "Finance" (P&L, ROI, OpEx) so you can see exactly how operational flaws will destroy your balance sheet.
Drawing on crisis-tested experience as a General Manager who rescued a 16,000+ plant facility from these exact consultant-created failures, we protect your capital. We run the "8-Question Reality Check" on every deal, stress-testing the operational assumptions in your financial models to see if they're based on physics or fantasy.
Our Services for Investors & Capital Groups
Pre-Investment Technical Due Diligence
Before you sign the check, we conduct a rapid, investment-grade audit of the target's facility, architectural plans, and pro-forma. We deliver a confidential "Go / No-Go" report identifying all hidden liabilities, unbudgeted capital requirements, and fatal operational risks. This is the insurance policy your investment committee needs.
Portfolio-Wide Operational Audit
You have existing assets, but are they performing? We audit your portfolio companies to find hidden inefficiencies, identify turnaround opportunities, and validate (or challenge) the operators' OpEx requests. We show you how to drive down cost-per-pound and increase the real-world value of your existing investments.
3. Legislative Risk & Opportunity Analysis
You're evaluating a new market (like PA, VA, or DE). We analyze the proposed legislation for its operational and financial feasibility. We warn you if a state's tax structure or licensing rules are creating a market that is designed to fail, protecting you from investing in a fundamentally broken system.
Our Independent Mission:
A Functional Market for All
We are often asked how we can advise both private operators and public regulators. The answer is simple: we serve the same mission for both.
That mission is Operational Integrity.
An unstable market helps no one. Bankrupt operators cannot pay taxes, and failed tax models bankrupt operators. A "Green Fault Line" between policy and physics hurts everyone. Our credibility comes from this independence.
When we advise operators, we demand they build resilient, safe, and efficient facilities that honor the letter and spirit of the law. When we advise policymakers, we demand they write laws that make resilient, safe, and efficient facilities possible.
We are not lobbyists. We are technical translators. We believe that a transparent, equitable, and operationally sound market is the only model that delivers long-term success for entrepreneurs, security for investors, and safety for the public.
Proof of Expertise
Fluent in Both Languages
We are fluent in Finance (P&L, ROI, IRR, 280E) and Plant (PAR, VPD, IPM). We translate between your analysts and your growers.
Crisis-Tested
As General Manager, our founder rescued a 12,000+ plant facility from catastrophic, investor-funded, consultant-created failures. We know exactly what to look for because we've had to fix it.
Investment-Grade Due Diligence
We've guided portfolio evaluation from initial property comparison through operational modeling and capital deployment strategy—identifying the buildout risks that pro formas miss.
Policy & Market Intelligence
Our work advising state legislative committees on cannabis market design means we understand how regulations impact operations in practice. We assess your market entry strategy through both lenses: what the rules say and what actually happens on the ground.