How much margin are you leaking?
Most cannabis operators overpay across HR, IT, and supply chain — quietly, on autopilot.
What's recoverable in your stack.
Drag your numbers — buy-side benchmarks estimate what's recoverable, plus the audit risk you're sitting on. Estimates are fine; we refine on the call.
Stale diagnostic · multi-state footprint
Without recent benchmarking, leakage compounds quietly. Multi-state and regulated operations elevate classification and audit risk.
PEO, classification, workers' comp, benefits.
$110K~1.8% of payrollSaaS consolidation, ERP fit, licenses.
$70K~22% of IT spendPackaging, promo, freight, MOQ.
$160K~13% of indirectHow we calculate this
HR assumes payroll ~30% of revenue (or per-head if higher); levers are PEO benchmarking, multi-state classification, workers' comp mod, benefits. IT assumes ~2.5% of revenue; recovery via license rationalization and redundant tooling. Supply chain assumes COGS ~40%, indirect ~10% of COGS; recovery via factory-direct sourcing, markup elimination, MOQ and freight. Diagnostic recency is a multiplier (fresh 0.85× → never 1.32×). Benchmarks come from 40+ buy-side engagements. Cannabis carries elevated HR/IT weighting for multi-state classification and license tracking. This is a model — the real number comes from your stack.
We do the work. The vendors pay for it.
Vendor-funded.
No retainer, no upfront cost — the work funds itself out of what we recover.
We run it end to end.
Discovery, the audit, vendor RFPs, implementation, monitoring — you approve every move.
Real, recovered margin.
Found savings, defensible numbers, fewer expensive vendor mistakes.
Someone's commission is always in these deals. We just put ours on the contract, in writing.
A complement, not a replacement. We re-source what you already buy and benchmark what you already pay — same team, better terms, time and money back. (Benefits like UnifyWell layer on top of what you have, or stand alone.)
Talk to the expert who's run it.
30 minutes with a subject-matter operator, not a salesperson — vendor-funded, no cost.
IT & infrastructure
Telecom, cloud, security, SaaS spend.
AI & automation
Workflow, agents — where it actually pays.
HR & people
Benefits, PEO, workers' comp, payroll.
Cannabis operations
The whole stack — where to start.
Not sure which? Start with a general discovery call →
Ad Astra runs on Band of Hands — a curated B2B marketplace of vetted providers and transparent, vendor-funded economics. It's the engine behind every recommendation, and why the advice stays honest.