Compliance as Confidence

Every Manufacturer Deserves a Corporate Food Safety Team.
Now You Can Afford One.

Build your food safety program. Develop your people. Open doors to new business opportunities. Monthly support, bilingual expertise, built for manufacturers like you.

300+ Manufacturers Served
99% Certification Rate
45 Days Avg to SQF Ready

Quick Qualification

4 quick questions to confirm fit:

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Are you a food or beverage manufacturer, or a company that co-manufactures food or beverage products?

Do you have, or are you working toward, SQF certification?

Do you manufacture, distribute, or sell cannabis, hemp, or THC-infused products?

If YES, we cannot work together.

Can you afford a monthly retainer (minimum $1,500/month)?

You Qualify! Let's Connect

Tell us about your facility so we can prepare for your discovery call.

We'll email you a calendar link within 1 hour.

Not a fit right now

Based on your answers, we may not be the right fit. But reach out anyway—there might be a path forward.

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The Real Challenge

Five Reasons SQF Feels Out of Reach and Why It's not

You've probably heard these excuses. Here's why they're not as limiting as they sound.

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We don't have a full-time food safety person

You don't need one. That's the entire point of MI. We coach your existing team to become your food safety leaders. Your floor supervisor, your production manager—they already know your facility. We give them the tools.

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Our facility is too old/small/unique

SQF doesn't care about facility size or age. It cares about control and documentation. We've certified everything from 50-year-old buildings to tiny co-packs. The system adapts to your reality, not the other way around.

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We've tried food safety programs before and they didn't stick

That's because you were handed a system to maintain alone. MI builds the system WITH you, then coaches your team to own it. The difference: you have ongoing support, not a document left on a shelf.

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SQF certification takes forever

Most facilities are audit-ready in 45–90 days. The ones that take longer usually started with nothing in place. We compress the timeline by building and training in parallel, not sequentially.

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We can't afford an SQF consultant

You can afford $1,500–$5,000 a month. That's 15–25% of what a full-time food safety manager costs, with zero hiring risk and none of the turnover headaches. Month-to-month, no contract lock-in.

Two Services, One Goal

SQF Consulting + SQF Coaching

Most consultants do one or the other. We do both, because your business needs both.

SQF Consulting

"We build your food safety system from scratch, in software, the right way."

  • Design your HACCP plan
  • Build prerequisite programs
  • Create digital platform
  • Write all SOPs & procedures
  • Audit-ready documentation

SQF Coaching

"We develop your people into food safety leaders. Your team owns the program. We coach them to run it."

  • Train your team on the system
  • Develop food safety leaders
  • Bi-weekly coaching
  • Answer floor questions
  • Build capability for independence

Here's the difference: Consulting builds the system. Coaching builds the people who run it. Most facilities need both, done in parallel. That's what MI does.

MI team coaching meeting with facility managers
Three Growth Stages

SQF Tiers You Can Afford

Month-to-month, no long-term contracts. Start where you are, grow as you scale.

Every Client Starts Here Your Team Graduates When Ready Your Team Takes Full Ownership
Tier 3: Build $5,000/mo

Full-Time Corporate Team

Your dedicated food safety department, leading compliance, audits, training, and continuous improvement.

MI Coaches, Your Team Leads

  • Internal SQF audits (quarterly)
  • HACCP/FSP review
  • PRP verification (monthly)
  • SOP review and updates
  • Sanitation program audits
  • Management review meetings
  • Employee training
  • Environmental monitoring
  • Document control
  • Supplier verification
  • Mock recall drills
  • SQF certification audit prep
  • Recall/crisis support
  • Food safety culture assessment

Your Team Handles Independently

  • Day-to-day records and logs
  • Attending training sessions
  • Following established SOPs

Exit here if you want a full corporate food safety department long-term. Some clients stay at Tier 3 permanently.

Tier 2: Growth $2,500/mo

Part-Time Corporate Team:

The perfect balance of independence and expert support. Your team leads daily operations while MI provides strategic guidance and oversight.

MI Handles

  • Internal SQF audits (quarterly)
  • Mock recall drills
  • SQF certification audit prep
  • Recall/crisis support

MI Coaches, Your Team Leads

  • HACCP/FSP review
  • SOP review and updates
  • Sanitation program audits
  • Management review meetings
  • Employee training
  • Supplier verification
  • Food safety culture assessment

Your Team Handles Independently

  • PRP verification (monthly)
  • Environmental monitoring
  • Document control
  • Corrective action follow-up
  • Day-to-day records and logs

Exit here if you want ongoing coaching and a shared workload with your corporate team.

Tier 1: Sustain $1,500/mo

Partial Corporate Team:

Your team independently manages all routine food safety activities with confidence and consistency.

MI Handles

  • Internal SQF audits (quarterly)
  • Mock recall drills
  • SQF certification audit prep
  • Recall/crisis support

Your Team Handles Independently

  • HACCP/FSP review
  • PRP verification
  • SOP review and updates
  • Sanitation program audits
  • Management review meetings
  • Employee training
  • Environmental monitoring
  • Document control
  • Corrective action follow-up
  • Supplier verification
  • Food safety culture assessment

Recommended destination. Your people own the program. We back them up. Full independence with a corporate safety net.

No long-term contracts. Month-to-month, bilingual support, free cancelation. Our job is to make you less dependent on us, not trap you in a retainer.

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Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

We can't afford a full-time food safety expert, what are our options?
A qualified SQF Practitioner costs $70K–$100K+ per year, which puts a full-time hire out of reach for most plants. MI gives you an entire corporate food safety department starting at $5,000/mo, scaling down to $1,500/mo as your team grows more expertise than a single hire, at a lower cost, and we never leave.
How long does SQF certification take?
Most clients are audit-ready in 45–90 days, depending on baseline. Some need longer if they're starting from scratch. MI compresses this timeline by coaching your team through implementation in parallel, not sequentially. The certification audit itself takes 1–3 days on-site.
What happens when we invest in training a specialist and they leave?
It's one of the most common and costly risks in this industry you hire someone, spend months training them, and the knowledge walks out the door when they do. We take a different approach: we train and coach the loyal employees you already have, the people who know your facility best, into food safety leaders. The expertise stays inside your company, not with a single hire who can leave at any time.
How MI is different from hiring a traditional consultant?
Most consultants build the system for you but never teach your team to run it, so you end up paying them indefinitely just to stay functional. Our tier model is built for the opposite outcome: as your team grows more capable, MI scales back and your costs go down you decide when and how much to keep us involved.
Our SQF program is still binders and filling cabinets, can you modernize it?
Yes, it's one of the most common problems we solve. Paper-based systems make audits stressful, records hard to find, and responsibilities unclear. We move your program into cloud-based software and build a standard work schedule that defines every recurring activity, its frequency, and its owner. No guesswork, ever.
Can you work with bilingual floor teams?
Yes. English-only training and documentation disconnect a huge portion of most plants' workforce from the food safety program they're expected to follow every day. MI delivers training, documentation, and coaching in both English and Spanish, so everyone from management to the production floor stays engaged and accountable.
Who We Are

Sam Peña

Founder & SQF Consultant, MI Consulting Group LLC

I started MI Consulting Group because I've seen firsthand how hard small and mid-size manufacturers work and how much they're let down by a food safety consulting industry built around dependency, not development. My goal is simple: become your corporate food safety team, build the program right, train your people to own it, and make myself less necessary over time. That's what a real partner looks like.

SQF Practitioner

Certified by SQFI

Six Sigma Black Belt

Process & efficiency

PCQI Trained

FSMA compliant

Bilingual

English & Spanish

Ready to Turn Compliance Into Growth?

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