Cannabis compliance shouldn't cost you the craft.
Old Guard Cannabis Advisors helps licensed cultivators and processors build extraction, cultivation, and compliance systems that pass every audit and scale profitably — led by an operator who has spent 20 years doing the work himself, not consulting from the sidelines. Remote and on-site engagements, worldwide.
What Old Guard advises on
Engagements typically start at one of six points — often more than one at once.
Cultivation Design & Management
Single-, dual-, and triple-tier indoor canopy design and operation — room layout, environmental systems, and the harvest planning that keeps 15,000+ plants and tens of thousands of square feet moving on schedule.
Extraction Systems & Lab Design
Solventless (bubble hash, rosin, full melt), hydrocarbon (BHO), CO2, cannabinoid distillation, and R-134a post-processing — equipment selection, layout, and commissioning from concept to first run.
GMP, Quality & Compliance
HACCP programs, SOP authorship, ISO 9001 quality frameworks, and the regulatory documentation that gets novel extraction methods approved by state agencies rather than flagged by them.
Facility Startup & Commissioning
Ground-up extraction and cultivation lab design, licensing support, and commissioning — including one of the first Comerg 50L R-134a deployments in the New York licensed market.
Product Development & Commercialization
Turning a working facility into a working brand — 100+ products launched across flower, concentrate, vape, pre-roll, and infused categories, into 700+ retail doors.
Operations Software & AI Tooling
Ground-up development of web-based operations platforms and AI-assisted compliance auditing — built from firsthand experience running the floor these systems are meant to manage, not a vendor guessing at your workflow.
Numbers from real facility floors
Not projections — production that happened, verified by the operators who wrote the checks.
Awards & credentials
Connoisseur Cup
1st Place Concentrates
Cali-O Terp Jelly
Connoisseur Cup
1st Place Overall Concentrates
VVS Blueberry Lemonade
Connoisseur Cup
1st Place Diamonds
VVS Citrex Diamonds
Lean Six Sigma
Black Belt
Sigma Six Academy, Amsterdam
ISO 9001:2015
Lead Auditor
Plus ISO 22000 Food Safety
EPA Section 609
MVAC Technician
Refrigerant handling certification
NY Category 24 & 1A
Pesticide Licenses
Private applicator & technician
Cornell CALS
GAP Certification
Good Agricultural Practices
A clear path from first call to compliant, scaling operations
No lengthy proposals before you know if this is a fit. Three steps, starting with a direct conversation.
Start a Conversation
A direct, no-pressure conversation about where your operation stands today — what's working, what's not, and where the real risk actually sits.
Get an Honest Assessment
An on-the-ground look at your canopy, extraction systems, and compliance posture — the same rigor used to defend Old Guard's own GMP audits.
Execute the Plan
A clear roadmap to close the gaps, scale output, and turn a compliant facility into a genuinely profitable one.
Old Guard Cannabis Advisors is built around one person's unusual path through this industry. Fifteen years of hands-on hash-making and extraction craft before licensure existed, followed by a decade directing cultivation, extraction, and manufacturing for some of the largest vertically integrated operators in Colorado and New York — including 44,000 sq ft of indoor canopy sustaining 15,000+ plants at any given time.
Most consultants know the regulations. Fewer have actually run the wash, walked a canopy at 6am to catch a flip date, or stood in front of a GMP audit defending SOPs they wrote themselves. That combination — artisan judgment plus operational rigor — is what Old Guard brings to every engagement.
Beyond advisory — building the tools clients actually need.
ResinOps is a ground-up operations platform for licensed cannabis facilities — cultivation, extraction, compliance, and inventory in one system, built from firsthand experience running the floor.
Start a conversation
Facility startups, extraction system selection, compliance builds, or a second set of experienced eyes on an operation already running — send the details below or reach out directly. Engagements worldwide, remote or on-site.