Every manufacturer deserves a corporate food safety team. Now you can afford one.

For most small manufacturers, the question isn't whether you can afford to get SQF certified - it's whether you can afford not to. Major retailers, distributors, and co-manufacturing partners increasingly require SQF or an equivalent GFSI-recognized standard as a condition of doing business. Without it, you're locked out of accounts your competitors are winning. SQF also strengthens your internal food safety culture, reduces recall risk, and gives your team a system that actually works day to day - not just on audit day.

A qualified SQF Practitioner costs $70K–$100K+ per year in salary alone - before benefits, turnover risk, or the months it takes to hire and onboard the right person. MI gives you that same corporate-level expertise at a fraction of the cost, with no hiring risk and no knowledge walking out the door if someone leaves. More importantly, our model is designed to develop your existing employees into food safety leaders, so you're building internal capacity at the same time. A single hire builds one person's knowledge. MI builds your whole team.

Not at all - that's exactly what our BUILD tier is for. We start from wherever you are. If you have nothing in place, we build your entire SQF program from scratch: HACCP plan, prerequisite programs, SOPs, digital platform, and training. If you have some pieces in place, we assess what's there and fill the gaps. Take the SQF Readiness Quiz above to see where you stand - it takes about 3 minutes and gives you an honest picture of your starting point.

It keeps running - because it was built to run without us. That's the whole point of our model. From day one, we're training your internal people to own the program, not just execute instructions from a consultant. Everything lives in your cloud platform, everything is documented in your name, and your team develops the skills to maintain it independently. We're successful when you need us less. The program belongs to you, always.

Yes - and this is one of the things that makes MI genuinely different. We're fully bilingual in English and Spanish. Your floor team won't just receive translated documents - they'll receive real training, in the language they actually work in, from someone who can answer their questions directly. A food safety program that only reaches management is a program that fails on the floor. We make sure every level of your team understands the system they're responsible for.

Most facilities achieve initial SQF certification within 6–12 months from the start of our engagement, depending on where they're starting from. Facilities that already have some documentation and food safety structure in place tend to certify faster. After your gap assessment, we'll give you a realistic, honest timeline specific to your facility - not a generic estimate.

Yes. We're based in Bakersfield, CA, but we work with manufacturers across the United States. Most of our day-to-day engagement happens remotely through our cloud-based platform - real-time access to your records, checklists, and audit documentation from anywhere. On-site visits are available for facilities that need hands-on support during critical phases. Just ask about travel during your discovery call and we'll work out what makes sense.

That's a head start, not a conflict. Your internal person becomes one of the most valuable parts of the engagement - we work alongside them, not around them. We bring the SQF expertise, the program architecture, and the corporate-level structure. They bring the facility knowledge, the team relationships, and the day-to-day presence. Together, we develop them into an SQF leader who can run the program confidently long after MI scales back.

We don't let clients walk into audits unprepared. Before your certification audit, we conduct a full internal audit and a mock assessment so there are no surprises on audit day. If a finding does occur despite that preparation, we're in your corner immediately - helping you write the corrective action, document the fix, and communicate with the certification body. We've been through this process and we know how to get you through it.

We work month-to-month. No long-term lock-ins, no cancellation penalties. Our model is built around making you less dependent on us over time - not trapping you in a retainer you can't exit. You stay because the engagement is delivering value, not because a contract says you have to. When your team is ready to graduate to a lower tier or operate independently, we celebrate that outcome - it means we did our job.