Licensed production with batch records, potency testing and seed-to-sale reporting.
How the work runs
Licensed production runs on two sets of books at once: the one that tells you what a batch cost, and the one the regulator reads. Plant material becomes extract becomes a finished product, each step losing weight and gaining test results, and every movement has to be reportable. Potency drives formulation, so a batch is sized by milligrams of active ingredient rather than by weight alone.
What makes or breaks it
- Batch records that survive an audit. Who did what, when, with which input lot, and what the test said. Reconstructing it from spreadsheets afterwards is how licenses get lost.
- Yield and loss at every conversion. Biomass to crude to distillate to product. Each step loses weight, and unexplained loss is a compliance question as well as a cost one.
- Potency-driven formulation. Dosing to a target milligram figure means the recipe changes with each input lot's test result.
- Seed-to-sale reporting. Metrc or your local equivalent. Whether the software files it for you, or you rekey it, is worth asking early.
Where people get caught out
Buying compliance software and expecting it to cost your production, or buying an MRP and expecting it to file your reports. They are different jobs, and most products do one of them well.