Areas of Practice

Business Planning and Due Dilligence

Start-ups and mature businesses all need access to capital, and financing starts with a detailed business plan. We can help you, at whatever stage you are at, create and present powerful models to help finance and operate your business. Thinking of a major investment? Let us help you diligence the project with an operational risk assessment, cost and energy analysis, technology review, or take the lead on the RFP process.

Systems Selection and Integration

Technology is advancing at a phenomenal pace. Novel solutions don’t simply replace existing ones, but prompt a re-conception of existing approaches. All this analysis must be rooted in a financial decision-making matrix. We can work with your existing local service providers to fully inform the design process and help you ask the right questions. We’ll help you understand how technologies can fundamentally reshape operations to achieve competitive advantage. Good design is predicated on sound strategy.

Project Management and Comissioning

Our comprehensive project management and commissioning services are focused on get your operations going with care and urgency. We collaborate closely with stakeholders, contractors, and vendors to ensure seamless coordination and communication, ultimately delivering projects on time and within budget. The earlier in the processes the better, someone with the operator’s perspective must consider every operational outcome. Let us bridge the human capital gap in your startup journey by providing short-term, high-level commissioning expertise. Our commitment to best practices and industry standards guarantees that your facility and its operations not only meet regulatory compliance but also operates at peak performance, maximizing energy efficiency and minimizing operational costs. Whether you are embarking on a new construction project or enhancing an existing facility, our project management and facilities commissioning services are your key to success.

Quality and Regulatory Affairs

Quality-centric design and operations are essential to success. In an evolving marketplace, those operators who can demonstrate why they stand behind their product will remain competitive over the long-term. GACP and GMP certifications open sales and export opportunities and drive margins up. Great quality systems make for great relationships with regulators and customers, while facilitating the business objectives. Let us help you demystify Quality Assurance and create processes that suit your business needs.

Cultivation Optimization

Every Precision Indoor Agriculture application has a bespoke set of objectives and challenges. Creating rich data streams that don’t add operational demands, form the basis of evidence-based cultivation management practices. Modern sensing platforms provide real-time crop-feedback, and data analysis tools cultivation management systems can help your team improve practices and deliver consistent results.

Product and Market Development

PIA farms afford operators the opportunity to produce differentiated products, but require differentiated methodologies. Making high quality products economically at scale is the PIA operators mission. Let us identify untapped value in your operations and generate plans to access it.

Biosecurity

The advantages of rigorous biosecurity design and implementation are the cornerstone of the Precision Indoor Agriculture advantage. Operating in a pest and disease-free environment provides direct labor and cost savings while increases yield, quality, and marketability. CEA operators concede the presence of pests, PIA operators eliminate them. We can address existing problems, and better yet, help you ensure their prevention.