Compliance is one practice. The way you engage us depends on where your operation is — needing a senior read, needing a known fix scoped and delivered, or needing the function run ongoing. Every engagement starts with reading the regulator's playbook against your actual operation, not pitching from a deck.
Regulations are the blueprint. Discipline is the method. Mastery is the result. Every engagement at Freed Up traces back to a public DCC source — a regulation, a citation, an enforcement action. We don't speculate about your operation; we read the public record, read your facility against it, and propose the fix in the order it needs to happen.
Whether the engagement runs three weeks, three months, or three years, the discipline is the same: anchor every recommendation to the regulator's actual playbook, scope to what your team can absorb without breaking the rest of the operation, and design every deliverable to leave your team capable of running the work without us in the room.
Most relationships start with the Diagnostic and move into one of the other two — but you can start anywhere. If you already know what needs fixing, hire us for a Project. If you already know you need ongoing senior coverage, start with a Retainer. The full detail of each lives on its own page.
A senior read of your California cannabis operation. Structured discovery across operations and environmental, a written 8–15 page readout, and an honest recommendation for what — if anything — to do next. $5,000 credits toward whatever follows within 30 days.
Read the DiagnosticProductized fixes for known regulatory pain. Four named projects — METRC Reconciliation Rebuild, SOP & MMP Build, Inspection Readiness Sprint, Re-Application Readiness. Each one solves a specific issue in a defined window, with a fixed quote up front.
See the projectsOngoing compliance support. Two parallel ladders — Compliance Officer for senior advisory, Operational Office for back-office execution. Buy one, the other, or both. Bundled retainers get 12% off the combined monthly rate.
See the tiersA short read for operators trying to decide where to start. If none of the patterns below match cleanly, the 20-minute fit call sorts it in one conversation.
Active citation, inspection coming, annual renewal looming, METRC out of sync — or stable but wanting a senior eye before scaling. Start with the Diagnostic. The readout includes the recommendation.
Diagnostic →Specific operational issue with a defined scope. METRC rebuild, SOP and MMP build, inspection readiness, re-application after denial. Hire us directly for a Project — fixed quote at the end of scoping.
Project Engagements →Compliance load is constant; you'd rather pay a predictable monthly rate than scramble. Multi-license or scaling. Considering hiring a Director of Compliance internally. Start with a Retainer.
Retainer tiers →Most operators arrive through the Diagnostic and scope what follows from the readout. The other two doors exist because operators who already know what they need shouldn't have to pay for discovery they don't want. Either way, the recommendation we make is the one we'd make if we weren't selling — including "you don't need us" when that's the right answer.
The Diagnostic includes a $5,000 credit toward any Project Engagement, any Compliance Officer Retainer (3-month minimum), or the Daily or Full Operational Office Retainer (3-month minimum). Operators who want to start with a Project don't lose the option to add a Retainer afterward; operators who want to start on Retainer can pull in a Project mid-engagement. Bundled retainers — both ladders together — take 12% off the combined monthly rate, on top of any Diagnostic credit still applying to the first three months.
Every fit call goes directly to a Freed Up principal. 20 minutes, an honest read, a clear recommendation either way — including "you don't need us" when that's the right answer.