How we installed SnacktevaOS for a $10M natural snack brand whose growth had outrun their systems: and freed the founder from daily operational firefighting.

The Situation

A Pacific Northwest natural snack brand had grown to nearly $10M in annual revenue through self-manufacturing. The product was right. The market was responding. But the operations hadn’t kept pace.

Workflows were person-dependent: the production schedule lived in one person’s head, QA depended on who happened to be on the floor, and audit prep consumed weeks of leadership time every cycle. The founder was still the operational bottleneck for every significant decision. Documentation existed in scattered Google Drive folders and on paper logs that nobody could find when an auditor asked for them.

Leadership was consuming itself in daily firefighting instead of running the business.

What We Built

Snackteva embedded directly into the operation: building systems during active production, not after a shutdown. Over the engagement:

• 60+ operational and compliance deliverables including a complete SOP library, food safety documentation, and compliance programs
• 49 digital production and QA forms deployed on tablets across the floor
• SnacktevaOS role-based apps for Training, Production, Warehouse, and QA: each hub purpose-built for the role, not generic
• Structured training pathways tied to every procedure, with comprehension verification built in
• Equipment advisory: identified and sourced a larger-capacity mixer during active production to resolve a capacity bottleneck
• 2,109 digital submissions captured in the first year of operation, creating a complete audit trail for the first time

The Result

The engagement delivered measurable outcomes across every metric that matters to a founder-led manufacturer:

• 34% reduction in all-in labor cost share: the same output with fewer person-hours
• $439K in annualized labor efficiency improvement
• 3,700 digital food-safety records logged at point of use, replacing paper
• A founder who could finally step back from daily operations and run the business strategically

Systems were built alongside live production: not after the fact, not in a pilot phase. This is what an embedded operational partnership looks like when it’s done right.