The Marvel Charter Program

What you're getting is a system with a guaranteed output, not a machine on a pallet. We set up the loop, dial it in, and guarantee the result: a yield increase set from your baseline, or payback inside six months on the full value stack. Your team runs it; we keep it tuned. Four seats, for the first four operations that accept the terms - and the terms won't be offered again.

How it works

Paid demoOur team runs the demo on your flower - the improvement requires changing how your line runs, so we manage the process while you verify every weight we record together. This is where your guaranteed number gets demonstrated, on your product. The demo fee credits in full toward your package when you proceed.

ImplementationOur team installs Marvel in your facility, integrates it with your trim line, and dials in grading criteria to your brand standard - for a small implementation fee charged up front. Not a lump-sum equipment purchase.

Performance depositCharged up front alongside implementation. We earn it or return it: your deposit sits against the guaranteed result - if Marvel doesn't deliver the yield recovery, it comes back.

Managed serviceMonthly fees begin once Marvel is running. Your team operates it day to day - we watch the performance data, tune settings by strain and season, and make sure it keeps delivering the number.

The Charter RateHalf off. Charter members run the managed model at 50% of the standard service rate, in exchange for the Charter trade: your results join the fleet data, anonymized on request, and you participate in a public case study - your name and your results on the page - with word-level approval over how it's said. Proof is the currency; the discount is what it buys.

The guarantee5-10 points of yield, set from five harvests of your own records - or payback inside six months against a savings model frozen before install. Miss either: deposit back, fees stop. Operating claims run 90 days. The payback guarantee is assessed at month three: your actual run rate against the frozen model, extrapolated to six, so a miss triggers early, not after six months of fees. Full terms and method →

Who Charter is for

• Commercial producers running an automated trim line
• Current yield below 70% (if you're not sure, we'll measure it with you)
• A baseline from your own records for whatever we guarantee. For yield: five harvests of consistent data - two numbers you already weigh, finished flower and trim. For labor or grade targets: your cost and grade-ratio history. Your compliance records almost certainly contain it.

"Why can't I just buy the machine outright?"

Fair question - especially if the capital's sitting there. Three honest reasons the model works this way:

The AI is a moving target - upward. Grading models retrain, accuracy improves, and every gain the fleet learns ships to every machine. A Marvel you owned outright with no fee would be frozen the day it landed. The fee is why the machine you install is the worst it will ever be. Autopilot, the line-control system in development, arrives the same way - to the fleet.
The guarantee needs the loop. We can only guarantee a number we can see and tune. Sever the monitoring and the tuning, and the guarantee goes with it. You can own a machine, or you can own a guaranteed outcome - the model exists because you can't have both.
The math is built to embarrass the fee. The monthly fee is a fraction of what the recovered yield returns every month. You're not paying in perpetuity - you're keeping most of a return in perpetuity.

And the commitment is a term, not a life sentence. In your first 90 days you can walk with 30 days' notice, no penalty. After that you're in your term, typically one or two years: the window where the numbers prove themselves, and the commitment that makes Charter pricing possible.

So do we ever sell Marvel outright? Yes. Outside the US and Canada it's the standard model, and domestically we'll do it - but understand what "outright" means for a machine with a living brain: there is no version of Marvel that runs without a monthly fee, because the fee isn't upkeep - it's the intelligence.

Why the Charter Rate exists

Charter is an exchange, and we'll name both sides. You help us prove the managed-service model at scale. Your machine's performance data joins the fleet - anonymized whenever you ask - powering the model improvements every Marvel receives and the industry benchmarks nobody else can publish. And you participate in a public case study: your name and your results on the page, with your approval over how it's said - every word, before anything goes out. In return, you lock pricing and guarantee terms that later customers won't get.

Why only four? Because we run every demo, every validation, and every dial-in ourselves. Four operations is what we can onboard right - not four this quarter, four total until the model is proven. When they're filled, Charter terms are gone.

What happens next

1. Discovery call (30 min). Your current process - throughput, team, labor cost per pound, where QC happens today - and honest fit assessment.
2. Data collection and value stream mapping. Our team gathers your production data and walks your line with you.
3. Tailored ROI case. The savings model that gets frozen in writing behind the payback guarantee.
4. Paid demo on your flower. Weights verified live, on your scale. Demo fee credits toward your package when you proceed.
5. Install, tune, run. Managed service - your team operates, we keep it tuned by strain and season.

That's the Keirton Blueprint. Useful to have handy for the first call: recent yield numbers by strain, and your all-in cost to buck, trim, and sort per pound.

Apply for a guaranteed number

Charter starts with a 30-minute call where we tell you honestly whether your operation qualifies: current yield below 70%, five harvests of records, an automated line. Four operations total. When they're filled, these terms are gone.

Apply for a guaranteed number How we measure →