1-hour Consulting & Advisory Session

Running a food or agricultural business often means making technical, operational, and manufacturing decisions without clear answers, complete information, or internal technical support.

You may be trying to solve a production issue, improve consistency, troubleshoot a formulation, prepare for growth, navigate retailer or regulatory expectations, respond to a quality concern, or simply determine the safest and most practical next step forward.

Guidance is designed for businesses that need focused technical support, collaborative problem-solving, or experienced outside perspective without entering a large consulting engagement.

These sessions provide space to ask questions, think through challenges, pressure-test decisions, and translate operational complexity into clearer pathways forward.

Sessions are collaborative and discussion-based, and may include coaching, technical feedback, strategic discussion, systems-thinking, operational interpretation, and practical recommendations tailored to your specific situation.

Common Discussion Topics

• Values & Strategic Alignment: Value-mapping to define core business values, aligning operational practices with brand integrity, and planning how to authentically communicate those values to consumers, partners, and regulators.
• Product Development & Formulations: Commercialization planning, reformulation, ingredient substitutions, functional ingredients, shelf-life considerations, and scale-up challenges.
• Process & Quality Operations: Process design, consistency troubleshooting, production bottlenecks, specification development, testing requirements/COAs, and equipment selection.
• Food Safety & Compliance: Microbial risk reduction, pathogen control, allergen cross-contact prevention, sanitation controls, environmental monitoring, CAPAs, and audit preparation.
• Co-Manufacturing & Systems: Evaluating manufacturing readiness, transitioning to contract manufacturers, traceability systems, and recall preparedness.
• Strategic & Operational Clarity: Clarifying technical terminology, evaluating retailer/regulatory expectations, and translating complex operational challenges into practical next steps.

What It Does Not Include

To maintain focus and efficiency, sessions do not include:

• Writing, building, or implementing systems or documentation on your behalf
• Completing regulatory submissions or formal classification determinations
• Ongoing project management or acting as your representative with external third parties (regulators, co-packers, labs, certifiers, retailers)
• Legal, engineering, or official certification services

(Note: Guidance may include reviewing or providing feedback on communications, documentation, or strategies you are preparing yourself.)

How It Works

1. Purchase Your Session

Select your session option and proceed through checkout.

• New Clients: Complete payment securely at checkout.
• Existing Invoiced Clients: Enter your provided client code at checkout to process your booking and maintain your custom invoicing arrangements. You will be billed at our currently agreed upon hourly rate for the invoicing period the session is scheduled in. 

2. Pick Your Time

Once checkout is complete, you will instantly receive a link on your confirmation screen (and in your confirmation email) to select your preferred date and time on our calendar. A unique Google Meet link will be automatically generated and sent to your calendar.

3. Complete the Short Intake Form

You will be prompted to complete a brief intake form to identify your core questions, priorities, operational context, and key challenges so we can maximize our time together.

4. Submit Background Information (Optional)

You may provide product labels, specifications, testing results, or supporting documentation in advance so our discussion remains highly focused and productive.

5. Attend Your Session & Implement

Join the session via Google Meet for collaborative interpretation, problem-solving, and strategic advice. Following the call, you’ll be equipped with practical next steps to implement within your business.

Scheduling, Rescheduling & Cancellation Policy

Please provide at least 24 hours' notice if you need to cancel or reschedule your session. Sessions cancelled or rescheduled with less than 24 hours' notice are considered forfeited and are not eligible for a refund or rebooking. If you arrive late to a scheduled call, the session will still conclude at its originally scheduled end time to respect subsequent booking commitments.