Who we are. What we do.
We're a consulting team comprised of cannabis industry veterans with diverse, complementary expertise. We've combined 84 years experience to offer a full spectrum of cannabis business advisory services.
We optimize cannabis cultivation facilities with our proprietary crop management SOP for maximizing productivity with crop steering, automation, and efficient practices. This often involves developing a phased approach and budget for infrastructure upgrades to the facility that our team is experienced in planning and executing.
Our clients are long-term partners.
In order to guarantee success for our partners, we are very selective on the few companies we choose to work with.
Limiting our scope to only a few clients ensures that we have the proper bandwidth to consistently achieve extremely high yields and quality.
We look for the following characteristics in the partners we choose:
Cannabis Business Owner/Operators seeking to invest in the core foundation of the facility: the SOPs, infrastructure, plant health and staff training
Capitalized and prepared to upgrade the facility to a reasonable degree
Competent cultivation staff that is teachable and communicative
A facility that is large enough to make our effort worthwhile
Business owner that cares about quality and consistency as much as profit
Vertically integrated
Multiple locations: Implement the same competitive advantage across facilities
Risks commonly associated with cannabis facilities:
Too often, large sums of capital are lost due to inefficient infrastructure, outdated standard operating procedures (“SOPs”) and inexperienced crop management teams
Inconsistent crop production flower yields and cannabinoid profiles vary with poor SOP management
Constant pest and pathogen pressure with inadequate IPM protocols, rotations, and scheduling
Inadequate personnel training and workflow efficiency to maximize production
Inefficient crop rotation planning and schedules poor nursery management results in fewer harvests per year
Improper planning and site development
Inexperienced/Poor purchasing: Unknowingly ordering the incorrect equipment and supplies
Inefficient equipment selection result in increased operational expenses (OPEX)
Lack of experience make capital expenditure (CapEx) decisions and priority difficult to analyze
Compromised harvest quality and yield potential makes product difficult to monetize
Where we come in.
Retrofitting an existing facility?
Contact us today to explore our services and network of resources to help you thrive in this competitive market!
With our robust set of skills spread across our team, we consider ourselves to be a Competitive Advantage to any cultivation facility in the cannabis and hemp industry looking to improve efficiency, productivity, and consistency in your output.
FSA’s 7-STEP Process:
Procure: genetics and hunting to select the best phenotypes to mother
Optimize: nursery, flowering, harvest, dry/cure, trimming, and packaging
SOP: Cutting edge crop steering, climate steering, and light steering SOP to maximize genetic potential and production goals, constantly
Implement: state of the art sensors that monitor substrate EC and moisture content, environmental, and lighting parameters
Automate: facility sequence of operations for efficiency and repeatability
Training: staff receives detailed explanation to implement, refine, and repeat SOPs
Facilitate: Equipment and supplies procurement for immediate and long term retrofit
Planning a new development? We are expert facility designers.
Coordinate with Development Team & Help Identify New Key Team Members
Establish and/or Work within Budget
Facility design and planning expansion phases or new construction
Lighting Analysis and design
Water filtration, fertigation and irrigation design and automation
Nutrient and fertigation program and planning
Environmental control audit and analysis
Benching/racking design and integration
Greenhouse automation and planning expansion phases
Coordination and communication with equipment vendors for product data/specifications, quotes, logistics, and systems integration support
Site Visits and Coordination with Local AHJ and Planning Department (if needed)
Designing a cultivation facility with experts is a requirement in today’s market. All development teams are unique and dynamic, but proper planning and programming with an industry-specific Process Consultant is critical for an expedited completion process.
We have robust experience in this industry, which provides us the opportunity to work extremely thorough on any cannabis development project - small, large, cultivation, extraction - we are your go-to resource. Our close relationships with all major equipment manufacturers and distributors encourages an efficient feedback loop with reliable communication and everyone’s incentives aligned to expedite the project.
