Built for Certified Organic Operations

The ERP Built for
Organic Food Brands

Guidance connects your purchasing, production, inventory, and compliance into one unified platform — purpose-built for certified organic food and beverage manufacturers.

The Organic Operations Problem

Running a certified organic food brand requires tracking data that generic ERP systems were never designed to handle.

Mass Balance Audits

Every certified organic operation must demonstrate that the volume of organic product sold matches what was purchased and produced. Spreadsheets cannot do this reliably at scale.

Lot-Level Traceability

A recall or audit requires you to trace every lot of finished product back to the exact raw material lot it came from — across blended batches and multiple production runs.

True COGS Visibility

Organic premiums, yield loss, and co-packer fees make COGS calculations complex. Most brands don't know their true margin until months after a production run.

What Guidance Does Differently

Guidance was built inside a certified organic food company — not designed for generic manufacturing and retrofitted for food.

Organic Mass Balance — Built In

Every purchase, production run, and sale is tracked at the lot level. Your mass balance reconciliation is always current — not a quarterly spreadsheet exercise.

Real-Time COGS Across Every SKU

Guidance calculates your true landed cost — including yield loss, organic premiums, and processing fees — so you know your margin before you commit to a production run.

MRP That Understands Organic Lead Times

Material Requirements Planning that accounts for organic supplier lead times, seasonal availability, and minimum order quantities — so you're never caught short before a production run.

Audit-Ready Compliance Records

Supplier certificates, lot genealogy, and transaction records are maintained automatically. When your certifier arrives, your records are already organized and complete.

Who Guidance Is For

Guidance is purpose-built for small and mid-size certified organic food and beverage brands that have outgrown spreadsheets and generic tools.

Organic Processors & Handlers

Brands that purchase certified organic ingredients and produce finished goods under USDA organic certification.

Small & Mid-Size CPG Brands

Companies generating $500K–$20M in revenue that need real operational infrastructure without enterprise pricing.

Founder-Led Operations

Solo founders and small teams who are currently managing purchasing, production, and compliance across disconnected spreadsheets and tools.

Further Reading

Ready to run your organic operation on one platform?

Guidance is accepting a small cohort of design partners — certified organic food and beverage brands ready to run live operations on the platform at a reduced rate.

Apply as a Design Partner