Project Engagements.

Fixed-scope, fixed-fee productized fixes. Four named projects, each one engineered to close a specific category of regulatory pain in a defined window. The scope of each project, and the fee that follows, is sized to your operation during scoping. The deliverable is documentation, training, and a working system your team owns.

What a Project Engagement is

A known fix, scoped and delivered.

Project Engagements close a specific issue with a specific scope, a specific timeline, and a specific fee. Quote up front, no hourly billing surprises, no retainer relationship required. When your operation has a clean, identifiable compliance problem with a knowable fix, a Project is the cleanest way to engage us — and the cleanest way to leave us once the work is done.

Each Project is anchored to actual DCC regulation. Each one ends with documentation your team can run, training the staff actually completes, and a follow-up window to confirm the fix is holding. The point is not to keep you on a retainer — it's to leave your operation capable of running the work without us in the room.

The four named projects

Four projects. Each one closes a known category of pain.

Every Project lands as a fixed quote during scoping, sized to your operation's license count, product surface area, and operational complexity. Scoping typically happens at the end of a Diagnostic, but a Project can also be scoped directly from a fit call when the work is well-defined.

Project 01

METRC Reconciliation Rebuild

Fee scoped per engagement
45 days

When METRC, the POS, and the ERP stop talking to each other, on-hand inventory drifts. The 30-day reconciliation 4 CCR § 15051 requires becomes harder to run, the 5% significance threshold in § 15034 becomes easier to cross, and citations follow. We rebuild the data pipeline so reconciliation happens once, automatically, and stays auditable — with a named owner and a backup who can both run it.

Scope
  • Audit current METRC, POS, and ERP data flow; identify discrete failure points.
  • Rebuild the integration and reconciliation workflow against actual operational practice.
  • Weekly three-way reconciliation SOP (METRC, physical, financial) with a named owner and documented backup.
  • Designated Account Manager training and credentialing where needed.
  • 30-day post-implementation follow-up audit to confirm the system holds.
Deliverable

A working reconciliation process, written SOPs, training certifications for the team running it, and a post-implementation report confirming the fix is operating in production.

Project 02

SOP & MMP Build

Fee scoped per engagement
60 days

When a DCC inspector reads your Master Manufacturing Procedures first and a documentation gap walks them straight to a section 17214–17216 citation, the fix is a foundational rebuild. We map every product family, build the procedures the operation actually needs, and stay through three weeks of rollout to make sure the team adopts what we wrote.

Scope
  • One to two site visits to map every product family across formulations and SKUs.
  • Master Manufacturing Procedures (MMPs) for each formulation, written to current DCC standards.
  • Batch Production Record (BPR) templates per product family.
  • Product Quality Plan per product family — hazards identified, release criteria specified.
  • Sanitation plan covering cleaning, allergen control, and pest management.
  • Training materials for production staff, written for the actual role.
  • Three weeks of shadow-operation support during rollout.
Deliverable

A complete document set, training records, and a 30-day check-in to confirm the documents match what's actually happening on the production floor.

Project 03

Inspection Readiness Sprint

Fee scoped per engagement
4 – 6 weeks

Most Right-of-Access citations don't come from broken processes — they come from a team that wasn't ready for the moment an inspector walked in. We run a full mock audit, train the team through three rounds of role-plays across multiple shifts, and leave them with a defensible checklist owned by the General Manager.

Scope
  • Full-day onsite mock audit conducted as a regulator would conduct it.
  • Premises diagram review, and update if the documentation diverges from the floor.
  • Records audit across track-and-trace, surveillance retention, employee files, and training records.
  • Staff role-plays — three rounds, multiple shifts, every role that touches an inspector.
  • Right-of-Access training for front-of-house and operations staff.
  • Defensible inspection checklist owned by the GM and visible to ownership.
  • 30-day post-sprint Q&A window.
Deliverable

A team that performs under inspection pressure, updated documentation that survives a regulator's read, and a written readiness report leadership can show their board or capital partners.

Project 04

Re-Application Readiness

Fee scoped per engagement
60 – 120 days

When an annual license is denied, the operator has a finite window to fix the cited issues, build the narrative, and re-apply. We project-manage the fix end to end and coordinate with the local jurisdiction. Offered when the right operator walks in — not what we lead with.

Scope
  • Decompose the denial letter section by section against the underlying regulation.
  • Build the remediation plan in dependency order — fix what must precede what.
  • Project-manage the fixes across CEQA, local authorization, premises, and SOPs.
  • Local jurisdiction coordination through the re-application window.
  • Re-application narrative drafting, anchored to remediation evidence.
  • Submit and follow through to decision.
Deliverable

A re-application package the DCC can approve, plus the underlying compliance posture to defend the next inspection — not a paper victory that collapses on the first walk-through.

What every Project delivers

The discipline is the same across all four.

The named projects differ in subject matter, scope, and price. The way we run them does not.

The Diagnostic credit

$5,000 of the Diagnostic fee credits toward a Project scoped within 30 days.

The Diagnostic exists to give an operator a senior read before they commit to a larger engagement. When the Diagnostic readout recommends a Project Engagement and the operator scopes it within 30 days, $5,000 of the $7,500 Diagnostic fee credits against the Project quote. Most Project Engagements get scoped this way.

The credit doesn't apply when you skip the Diagnostic and hire us directly for a Project — that's a fair trade. The shortcut comes with a slightly higher quote; the discovery work still has to happen, it just happens during scoping instead of as its own engagement.

When a Project is the right move
  • You have a specific, named issue. A citation under a known section. METRC out of sync. SOPs that don't match the floor. An inspection coming and a team that isn't ready. A denied license to recover.
  • You'd rather solve one thing at a time. Build the foundation as a Project, then evaluate whether a Retainer makes sense once that's done.
  • Your internal team will run it after. Project deliverables include training and handoff. Many operators don't need a Retainer at all once the Project ships.
  • Cash flow needs the work bounded. Fixed-fee Projects have a beginning and an end; Retainers are recurring.
  • You've worked with senior compliance practitioners before. You know the shape of a real engagement and you want the fix scoped and delivered without overhead.
When a Diagnostic or Retainer fits better
  • You're not sure what's broken. Start with a Diagnostic — the readout makes the recommendation.
  • Your compliance load is constant. A Retainer turns compliance from an unpredictable line item into a managed function, billed at a fixed monthly rate.
  • You're multi-license or scaling. Portfolio surface area usually justifies a Retainer; one-off Projects don't scale with the operation.
  • You want senior eyes on continuously. Not just when something breaks — that's what the Compliance Officer Retainer is built for.
  • The issue isn't in our four named projects. If your pain doesn't match METRC, MMP/SOPs, inspection readiness, or re-application, the Diagnostic exists to confirm the right shape of engagement first.
Ready to scope a Project?

A 20-minute fit call sorts the right engagement.

Bring your citation, your inspection date, your METRC discrepancies, your denial letter — or simply a sense of what you think the fix is. We'll tell you whether a Project is the right shape, which one, and what the scoping looks like. If a Diagnostic would be the better first move, we'll say that instead.