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The Operator Readiness Library

Twelve real, fillable spreadsheets covering facility startup, extraction system selection, compliance builds, and operational review — the same working documents this practice uses, not a marketing PDF. Built from 20 years running licensed cultivation, extraction, and manufacturing facilities.

What's Inside

Twelve tools, four categories.

Facility Startup
01
Facility Commissioning Timeline Checklist
A phase-by-phase launch checklist covering the milestones that most commonly slip a launch date when they're not tracked explicitly.
02
Facility Startup Budget & Capital Equipment Checklist
A category-by-category capital budget with live formulas -- the line items operators most often under-budget going in.
03
Pre-Licensure Regulatory Readiness Checklist
The core documentation and system categories common across most U.S. state licensing regimes.
Extraction System Selection
04
Extraction System Selection Scorecard
A weighted scorecard for comparing extraction methods against your own facility's priorities -- forces the tradeoffs onto paper instead of a spec sheet's marketing claims.
05
Solvent vs. Solventless Method Comparison Guide
A reference matrix across hydrocarbon, CO2, ethanol, and solventless methods -- typical yield, terpene retention, capital cost, and regulatory burden side by side.
06
Extraction Facility Layout & Workflow Planning Checklist
A zone-by-zone planning checklist built around unidirectional material flow and contamination control.
Compliance Build
07
GMP Readiness Self-Assessment
A self-scored assessment across the core domains a GMP audit actually evaluates -- built to surface gaps honestly before an auditor finds them for you.
08
SOP Writing Template & Framework
The standardized SOP document structure used across real audited facilities, ready to duplicate for every procedure in your system.
09
HACCP Plan Starter Template
A hazard-analysis scaffold seeded with common cannabis production process steps -- a starting point for your own facility-specific plan.
Operational Review
10
Batch Record & Yield Tracking Template
Per-batch records with automatic yield calculation, plus a rollup comparing average yield across methods over time.
11
Operational Diagnostic Checklist
A self-rating tool built around the standard this practice applies to every real recommendation -- use it to pressure-test your own operation's decisions.
12
Early Warning Signs Self-Check
Small, visible symptoms that tend to show up together well before a bigger operational or financial problem surfaces.
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