Commercial Cannabis Consulting from Industry Proven Experts!
4c is based in the MMJ Mecca- California, with the ability to bring you full service consulting and supply chain solutions across the US and Canada! With EXPERTISE in maximizing grow room design, increasing efficiency and design a solid business model, Cannabis Consulting Co. is here for all of your needs.
Partnered with 100s of crop specific vendors, Cannabis Consulting Co. also brings you a fully integrated supply chain for you ongoing maintenance and supply needs.
Consulting
Application Support
We help you navigate the complexities and legal requirements of qualifying for, obtaining and operating with proper licensing. Rules and requirements vary from state to state and will usually involve personal and tax history examination. Staff licensing may also be necessary.
Business Planning
Proper business planning is critical in both understanding, launching and maintaining any successful and profitable operation. We help you understand the market dynamics of this industry and business “life cycle” helping you determine what you may need to do and when, and how to help insure desired outcomes.
Competitive Strategy
Do you have a Competitive Strategy? What makes you different than the guy down the street? Let us help you develop a competitive strategy which will help position your business with competitively unique offerings and barriers to competition.
Site Selection
Site selection is a critical decision and one that you may have to live with for a while. Store fronts, distribution centers, grow operations and processing centers all have a variety of unique needs. We can help assist in site selection based on our direct experience in all of these areas.
Buildout Planning
Identifying your site may be the first step but quality buildout planning is necessary to maximize the value of your capital investment and insure down-line operational efficiency. Internal operations, safety and security, systems and compliance, and staff considerations are all examined.
Regulatory Compliance
Understanding and adhering to Federal, State and local agency regulations can be a bit daunting. Our team stays abreast of all changes in the regulatory regime to make certain that our clients remain compliant with all regulatory requirements. Our regulatory compliance products and services help licensees maximize and streamline their compliance assurance processes
Grow Management Protocols
Keeping track of hundreds, even thousands of medical marijuana plants can be a difficult and time consuming undertaking. Our team brings proven cutting-edge grow management solutions, allowing monitoring of plants in every grow, and everything that happens throughout its life cycle.
Retail Design
We help identify and recommend secure retail design environments which attract customers through welcoming interior design, product merchandising and enhanced drive by recognition.
Diversion and Loss Prevention
Our team designs specialty loss prevention programs for high-risk retail business owners and recommends internal and external loss prevention programs that will help make your cannabis business more profitable. Understanding the security risks involved is a mandatory first-step in opening a legal marijuana business.
Management
Yield Analysis
Proper yield analysis involves many factors and without proper information, planning and monitoring your results can be disappointing. Our team brings years of grow and yield analysis to the engagement examining while recommending genetic, environmental, cultivation and other “best practices” to improve and realize maximum yields.
Waste Reduction
Waste Reduction becomes an important “proactive” practice in your business. Don’t leave money on the table by reducing waste with a plan for proper and legal disposal.
Staffing
You staff is the “heart and soul” of your business and the medical marijuana business requires unique, well-informed individuals who should polish your reputation and represent your business in an honest and professional manner. Let us help you define positions and secure individuals for tasks ranging from professional trimmers and budtenders to chefs and marketing managers.
Business Coaching
Let us help expand your business acumen through meaningful business coaching services. Our many years of successful business experience provides help with Business Plan, Capitalization, Finance, Sales & Marketing, Operations, HR, Security, Partnering and other aspects of running a successful growing operation.
Workflow Procedures
Our team specializes in both offsite & onsite workflow analysis. We conduct thorough internal evaluations and testing to determine the best possible implementation approach.
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
We will review your grow with an integrated pest management approach based on modern technology and our years of experience. While adapting ideas and “best practice” from conventional agriculture and organic farming, we can recommend technologies and processes which make a real difference.
Growth Strategies
Proper growth strategies for maximum year round production is important to your overall plan, execution, and potential. Fully understanding initial germination, growth and vegetative states along with biological, nutrient, and maintenance requirements of your grow can yield big dividends. Let us help you get there.
Staff Training and Education
A trustworthy, well educated and friendly team is required in order to provide customers with the best medical marijuana dispensary experience. We provide the training and education necessary to allow your staff to deliver great customer service, return sales and happy customers!
Patient Education
Although you cannot practice as Doctors, it is still important that you and your team provide patient education. We help educate and provide resources to your team on the medical benefits of MMJ. This helps build business though value-based sales while instilling patient/customer confidence.
Community Outreach
We help design and execute community outreach programs to educate the public and your commercial neighbors by explaining the truth behind cannabis and how your MMJ business will be a positive addition to the community. Our experience will help you navigate those waters.