What We Do
The work between your brand and the plant.
Finding the right manufacturer, getting through the pilot and first run, and running operations every run after. From people who have been the brand, the co-packer, and the plant.
Snackteva works as an embedded operating partner, not a report-writing consultancy, and not a matching service. Engagements begin one of four ways. Most move across them, because a co-packer problem is usually also a spec problem, a food safety problem, and a systems problem wearing one coat.
01 · Food Safety, SQF & Audits
Systems an auditor can walk into unannounced.
A buyer wants SQF before the next order, or an audit is on the calendar. FSMA and GMP compliance built for how your facility actually runs, with PCQI-led food safety plans. SOPs and training programs written for the people who do the work, including non-technical operators. Audit preparation for SQF, BRC, customer, and FDA. HACCP plans and food safety programs aligned to current operations, not to the binder.
GMP gap analysis, HACCP review, and verifiable critical control points including metal detection and label verification, running as daily operations rather than binder contents.
More on compliance and audit readiness →
02 · Co-packer Fit, Placement & First Run
Anyone can send you a list. We get you in, and through the first run.
You need a manufacturer, or the one you have is failing you. Co-packers turn down most brands because onboarding is expensive and most founders arrive unprepared. We arrive with a manufacturable formula, finished-goods specs, a supply chain, and a sales plan the plant can schedule against. Formula-to-plant fit, placement with a facility we know, onboarding costs, MOQs, and tolling explained before you commit a dollar. Then a certified SQF practitioner and PCQI on the floor through pilot and first run: control plan, spec tolerances, batch tickets, seal tests, line photos every half hour.
Formulation lives here, because it is how you get into the plant. Recipe development, commercialization from kitchen sample to production run, and fixing the product that tastes great in the kitchen and misbehaves on the line. Label and claims review before a buyer or regulator does it for you.
Built supplier approval programs with full GMP-required documentation for traceability, and formulations that survived the jump from kitchen to production line.
“She was brought in after multiple prior formulation efforts failed: masking bitter, metallic, and sour off-flavors from a highly complex functional ingredient blend. Liz identified the core sensory issues and delivered a clean-label, consumer-ready nutrition bar where others could not.”
Peter Leighton · Prostasis
Read the full Prostasis case study →
Formulation, reformulation, and scale-up, in depth →
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03 · Ongoing Operations
The plant calls us, not you.
No VP of Operations, and you are still the bottleneck. Fractional COO work: co-packer management, scheduling, spec drift, ingredient substitutions, undeclared changes, and audit paperwork. Supply chain, cost, capacity, and fulfillment strategy that protects cash. Production troubleshooting when runs go sideways. The decisions that decide whether growth protects margin or erodes it, made by someone who has sat on both sides of the table.
Sourced larger-capacity equipment well below market replacement cost and validated it without adding headcount or disrupting production.
The best operational decisions are made before problems become expensive.
04 · Systems That Run Without You
Your operation, running on systems, not heroics.
Everything lives in one person’s head, until that person leaves and the cracks show. SnacktevaOS is a role-based digital QMS: tablet-native floor records, SOP libraries, and verification sign-offs built on tools you already run, so the right step is the easy step and the record builds itself. It is the knowledge backbone that lets you step away from the day-to-day, and the reason the plant can call us instead of you.
Audits shifted from document retrieval to discussions of system effectiveness, because records were captured the moment work happened.
How Engagements Begin
Most start with one specific problem on a 20-minute call: a co-packer search, an audit six weeks out, a formula that will not scale, a run that did not come out the same twice. The call is a read on where you stand and whether we can help, not a pitch. If the capital for a first run is not in place yet, we will say so and point you somewhere cheaper.
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