Services
What we do.
Our work falls into three buckets: quick, fixed-scope checkups that answer one question; larger step-by-step projects you can pause or exit between stages; and ongoing or expert help. Not sure which you need? Tell us the problem and we’ll point you to the right one.
Three ways we work
Pick the one that fits — each opens its own page, so you only read what applies to you.
A
Productized offerings
Quick, fixed-scope engagements that answer one question or deliver one artifact.
- ·Emergency Microbiology Root-Cause Session
- ·The Contamination Case File
- ·Process Authority Letter (PAL)
- ·Federal Pathway Readiness Diagnostic
- ·Basic Design Qualification (10-hour retainer)
B
Project engagements
Larger, phased builds you can pause or exit between stages.
- ·GACP + GMP Gap Assessment (Schedule III posture)
- ·EU GACP + GMP Gap Assessment (Export Readiness)
- ·ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Lab Accreditation Readiness
- ·International or Greenfield Cannabis Testing Lab Build
- ·GMP Facility Design & URS (Architect-Ready Brief)
- ·Design Qualification + Qualification / Commissioning Program
- ·Microbial Root-Cause Investigation + Preventive Controls Build
C
Advisory, retainer, and expert work
Ongoing or matter-specific help — retainers, expert witness, and advisory.
- ·Expert Witness + Litigation Support
- ·Post-Accreditation / Compliance Retainer
- ·Federal Pathway / Schedule III Advisory
How we work
Five principles that show up in every proposal we write and every engagement we run. These aren’t marketing slogans — they’re how the firm already talks about itself in client-facing documents.
For the full picture — the stage-gated, validation-first method behind these principles — see how we run a project.
“Intrepid advises, builds, and trains. The client operates the system.”
Sharp role boundary. We deliver the system and develop the people to run it. We don't take over the lab or the facility.
“Phased, decision-gated. Either party may exit after Stage 1.”
Every long engagement is broken into stages with explicit go/no-go gates. Stage 1 is a small scoping and gap assessment with mutual exit rights.
“Readiness, not grant. Readiness, not outcome.”
We get you ready for the assessment, the submission, or the inspection. Outside parties decide the outcome. We won't pretend otherwise.
“Co-development. Client staff embedded from day one.”
We don't develop systems or methods in a vacuum and hand them off. Your people work alongside ours so they own the deliverable when we leave.
“Quarter-hour increments. Running ledger with every invoice.”
Operational hygiene that signals discipline. You always know what you've spent and what you've gotten for it.
“We will tell you in Stage 1 if this is the wrong tool.”
If the diagnostic shows the proposed engagement isn't the right answer for your situation, we say so. A consultant who takes the engagement without that conversation is selling a product you may not need.
Free tool
The Risk Assessment Worksheet
A fillable PDF that walks our compliance method end to end — scope, specification register (CQAs/CSAs), an ICH Q9 risk assessment, prioritized controls, and a verification sign-off. The same pathway whether the regulator is the DEA, a new state market, the FDA, or the EU. Run it yourself for one product or process line; when you want senior eyes on the result, the diagnostics below pick up where it leaves off.
Specialty practice
Pesticide & residue analysis
Led by Julie Kowalski, PhD — Past President of NACRW and Co-Chair of the AOAC CASP Pesticide Think Tank. The full range of pesticide and residue work for cannabis, hemp, and food labs:
- ·Method development & validation (LC-MS/MS, GC-MS/MS)
- ·Residue troubleshooting & failing-result investigation
- ·Sample prep & method optimization (QuEChERS)
- ·Proficiency testing & method transfer
- ·State pesticide-list & standards advisory
- ·Pesticide & chromatography expert witness
Talk to us about an engagement
Send a note describing what you’re working on. We reply directly, from a cofounder. Quote-driven engagements; no boilerplate scopes.