Our Services

  Fractional COO

We provide expertise and leadership to help scale your operations successfully through strategic planning, needs prioritization, and development and implementation of repeatable, structured processes. Trust us to provide tailored cross-functional support to deliver on your corporate objectives.

  • Organizational hierarchy, division, and personnel structuring
  • Go-to-market strategy development and execution
  • Demand planning, inventory control, track-&-trace and MRP/ERP implementation
  • Pro forma modeling, COGS analyses, and cost optimization
  • Process & SOP development and implementation
  • Ensure proper legal & financial systems to support growth and mitigate risk
  • Oversee lean distribution of resources across the organization

Turnaround Management

When the challenges to your business become overwhelming, we offer strategic support to help you correct course. From objective external assessments to interim management, we’ll help you stabilize your operations, analyze your pathways forward, and implement new systems to ensure efficient and scalable growth.

  • Business viability assessments: products/services, operating team, processes, COGS analyses, QA/QC systems, market reputation, GTM Strategy
  • Company stabilization, Interim-CEO and/or Interim-COO services
  • Management turnover
  • Strategic partnerships & outsourcing

Private Label Commercialization

With the regulatory and financial burdens of multi-market proliferation, brands are leveraging private label manufacturers to expedite expansion. Whether an asset-light brand or a producer looking to add a new revenue stream, Emkai Strategy can develop, implement, and manage the process.

  • Co-Packer/private label manufacturer sourcing, diligence, and onboarding
  • Supply chain management and demand planning
  • Expansion strategy planning; market and product roadmaps, GTM development, cost modeling 
  • Product, packaging, and formulation standardization
  • Private label systems implementation; touchpoint modeling, batch production log, BOM, and PO standardization

Start-Up Services

We assist entrepreneurs in achieving success via strategic business planning, product, process and metric roadmapping, and services customized to fit your start-up’s needs.

  • Dynamic modeling, COGS analyses, and pro formas
  • Process and SOP development
  • Org. charts, division structuring, and hiring advisory
  • Go-to-market planning
  • Demand planning, track-&-trace and MRP/ERP implementation
  • Pitch decks and business model advisory
  • Facility and equipment strategy and selection

Portfolio Company
Viability Assessments

As seasoned operators, we provide assessment services to evaluate the financial and operational performance of companies in your investment portfolio. Our analysis will  provide detailed options for leveraging shareholder value in the course ahead.

  • Business model, solvency, and go-forward assessments
  • People, process, and plant evaluations
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Restructure Advisory

Whether you have invested in, own, or operate a cannabis company that is facing significant operational or financial headwinds, we offer an array of tailored restructure services. In partnership with Resolute Commercial Services, a sophisticated business advisory firm, we stand ready to safeguard your interests, amplify your asset value, and mitigate stakeholder liabilities.

  • Receiverships
  • Voluntary workouts
  • Strategic winddowns