Every Manufacturer Deserves a Better Food Safety Partner

Build a stronger system. Train your team. Stay audit‑ready.

  • Certified SQF ConsultantCertified by SQFI
  • Six Sigma Black BeltProcess & Efficiency
  • Masters in PsychologyMind-Shift Intelligence Approach
  • BilingualEnglish and Spanish
Sam Peña, SQF consultant

Trusted by manufacturers who take food safety seriously

Brightland
Patagonia Provisions
Sciabica Family California Olive Oil
Journeyman Meat Co
Cult Crackers
Rancho Gordo
The Real Challenge

Five Reasons SQF Feels Out of Reach and Why It's not

You've probably heard these excuses. Here's why they're not as limiting as they sound.

1

We don't have a full-time food safety person

You don’t need one. That’s the entire point of MI. We coach your existing team to become your food safety leaders. Your floor supervisor, your production manager, they already know your facility. We give them the tools.

2

Our facility is too old/small/unique

An old building is a real challenge, we won’t pretend otherwise. But the standard isn’t grading your building, it’s grading how you manage it. We’ve certified older facilities by building the right controls and documentation around the building you have, not the building someone wishes you had. It’s not about starting over. It’s about managing what’s already there the right way.

3

We can’t afford a full time Quality Manager right now

You don’t have to hire one. A six figure salary with benefits and a six month search is one option, and it’s the expensive one. MI builds that same expertise into your current team for a quarter of that cost, so you get corporate level food safety without the corporate price tag.

4

We already failed an audit and we don’t want to fail again

A failed audit doesn’t mean your team can’t get this right. It means nobody showed you the best practices that actually hold up under an auditor’s eye. We coach your team through exactly what works, so the next audit isn’t a hope. It’s a formality, because you finally have someone who has done this before showing you how.

5

Our team is too busy to take this on

Your team is already busy doing the job. We build the program around their existing schedule, not on top of it. A little structure now saves them from putting out fires later, and that is time they get back.

Two Services, One Goal

SQF Consulting + SQF Coaching

Most consultants do one or the other. We do both, because your business needs both.

SQF Consulting

"We build your food safety system from scratch, in software, the right way."

  • Design your HACCP plan
  • Build prerequisite programs
  • Create digital platform
  • Write all SOPs & procedures
  • Audit-ready documentation

SQF Coaching

"We develop your people into food safety leaders. Your team owns the program. We coach them to run it."

  • Train your team on the system
  • Develop food safety leaders
  • Bi-weekly coaching
  • Answer floor questions
  • Build capability for independence

Here's the difference: Consulting builds the system. Coaching builds the people who run it. Most facilities need both, done in parallel. That's what MI does.

MI team coaching meeting with facility managers
Three Growth Stages

SQF Tiers You Can Afford

Month-to-month, no long-term contracts. Start where you are, grow as you scale.

Every Client Starts Here Your Team Graduates When Ready Your Team Takes Full Ownership
Tier 3: Build $5,000/mo

Full-Time Corporate Team

Your dedicated food safety department, leading compliance, audits, training, and continuous improvement.

MI Coaches, Your Team Leads

  • Internal SQF audits (quarterly)
  • HACCP/FSP review
  • PRP verification (monthly)
  • SOP review and updates
  • Sanitation program audits
  • Management review meetings
  • Employee training
  • Environmental monitoring
  • Document control
  • Supplier verification
  • Mock recall drills
  • SQF certification audit prep
  • Recall/crisis support
  • Food safety culture assessment

Your Team Handles Independently

  • Day-to-day records and logs
  • Attending training sessions
  • Following established SOPs

Exit here if you want a full corporate food safety department long-term. Some clients stay at Tier 3 permanently.

Tier 2: Growth $2,500/mo

Part-Time Corporate Team:

The perfect balance of independence and expert support. Your team leads daily operations while MI provides strategic guidance and oversight.

MI Handles

  • Internal SQF audits (quarterly)
  • Mock recall drills
  • SQF certification audit prep
  • Recall/crisis support

MI Coaches, Your Team Leads

  • HACCP/FSP review
  • SOP review and updates
  • Sanitation program audits
  • Management review meetings
  • Employee training
  • Supplier verification
  • Food safety culture assessment

Your Team Handles Independently

  • PRP verification (monthly)
  • Environmental monitoring
  • Document control
  • Corrective action follow-up
  • Day-to-day records and logs

Exit here if you want ongoing coaching and a shared workload with your corporate team.

Tier 1: Sustain $1,500/mo

Partial Corporate Team:

Your team independently manages all routine food safety activities with confidence and consistency.

MI Handles

  • Internal SQF audits (quarterly)
  • Mock recall drills
  • SQF certification audit prep
  • Recall/crisis support

Your Team Handles Independently

  • HACCP/FSP review
  • PRP verification
  • SOP review and updates
  • Sanitation program audits
  • Management review meetings
  • Employee training
  • Environmental monitoring
  • Document control
  • Corrective action follow-up
  • Supplier verification
  • Food safety culture assessment

Recommended destination. Your people own the program. We back them up. Full independence with a corporate safety net.

No long-term contracts. Month-to-month, bilingual support, free cancelation. Our job is to make you less dependent on us, not trap you in a retainer.

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Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

We can't afford a full-time food safety expert, what are our options?
A qualified SQF Practitioner costs $70K–$100K+ per year, which puts a full-time hire out of reach for most plants. MI gives you an entire corporate food safety department starting at $5,000/mo, scaling down to $1,500/mo as your team grows more expertise than a single hire, at a lower cost, and we never leave.
How long does SQF certification take?
Most clients are audit-ready in 45–90 days, depending on baseline. Some need longer if they're starting from scratch. MI compresses this timeline by coaching your team through implementation in parallel, not sequentially. The certification audit itself takes 1–3 days on-site.
What happens when we invest in training a specialist and they leave?
It's one of the most common and costly risks in this industry you hire someone, spend months training them, and the knowledge walks out the door when they do. We take a different approach: we train and coach the loyal employees you already have, the people who know your facility best, into food safety leaders. The expertise stays inside your company, not with a single hire who can leave at any time.
How MI is different from hiring a traditional consultant?
Most consultants build the system for you but never teach your team to run it, so you end up paying them indefinitely just to stay functional. Our tier model is built for the opposite outcome: as your team grows more capable, MI scales back and your costs go down you decide when and how much to keep us involved.
Our SQF program is still binders and filling cabinets, can you modernize it?
Yes, it's one of the most common problems we solve. Paper-based systems make audits stressful, records hard to find, and responsibilities unclear. We move your program into cloud-based software and build a standard work schedule that defines every recurring activity, its frequency, and its owner. No guesswork, ever.
Can you work with bilingual floor teams?
Yes. English-only training and documentation disconnect a huge portion of most plants' workforce from the food safety program they're expected to follow every day. MI delivers training, documentation, and coaching in both English and Spanish, so everyone from management to the production floor stays engaged and accountable.
Ready to Turn Compliance Into Growth?

Stop being locked out.
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Level up your existing team into SQF practitioners so you keep talent in house and become the preferred supplier for national and global customers.