Ensure the products you’re making and your growth plans align with your brand and your consumers. Review opportunities to sharpen your brand value proposition and map out new product launches.

You’ll come away with a roadmap for collecting & understanding consumer insights, even on a limited budget, using those insights to inform product development, and prioritization of marketing activations to support new product launches.

Understand the critical steps in the R&D process, ensure formula scalability, explore ingredient sourcing options, understand basic regulatory parameters for ingredients, labeling, and any functional or nutritional claims.

You’ll come away with a roadmap for prioritizing product features, understanding COGS implications of those features, getting your recipe optimized for commercial production and future scaling as well as best sources for key ingredients. Come away prepared with the necessary questions you need to ask, elements that are negotiable, and how to negotiate your best product scenario.

Explore the range of manufacturing options given your own scale. Approach co-manufacturer negotiations strategically. Understand ways to optimize your COGS and logistics.

You’ll come away with a roadmap for production options for the near-, medium-, and longer-terms, suggestions for scale-appropriate facility types (commercial kitchens, co-manufacturers, self-manufacturing) in the short-term, and the key elements to consider when selecting your manufacturing arrangements.  You’ll come away with an understanding of how to approach your selected manufacturing in a way most advantageous to your business needs.