Cut the repetitive QC workload. Keep human judgment where it matters.
Visual quality control by human eyes is the most expensive, least consistent step in cannabis post-harvest. Marvel automates the inspection layer - your people move to work that needs judgment.
A QC room mid-shift: the repetitive inspection load Marvel takes over.
What visual QC actually costs
The wage line is the visible part. The rest: hiring scrambles at every harvest peak, weeks of training for eyes that leave in months, shift-to-shift inconsistency your buyers notice before you do, and the fatigue misses that surface as complaints. Every person on that line is a cost you pay again with every harvest, whether you're pulling rooms weekly or fields once a year.
One machine, every flower, no drift
Marvel grades and sorts at rates equivalent to five to fifteen people, depending on your throughput and line design - all day, every day. It inspects 100% of flower at line speed - stems, leaf, crow's feet, structure, color, size, mold, foreign material - against the same standard on Friday's second shift as Monday's first. People stop being inspectors and start being deciders: rework calls, exceptions, the judgment work a machine shouldn't own.
What that looks like in headcount
62%
post-harvest labor cost reduction at Grip Cannabis - $700,000 per harvest season. Published case study.
"2x speed of last season with less than half the crew. Marvel pays for itself in 2 weeks."
And the honest version of the range: sometimes the yield play adds labor back to the line - and pays for it many times over. In one documented three-strain evaluation, hand-QC labor rose about $2 to $4.50 per pound while recovered value rose $25 to $91 per pound, strain depending. That's why the promise is payback, not a headcount: Marvel pays for itself within six months, guaranteed.
"The labour reduction is huge. We're challenged during our peak harvest times with labor bouncing to other agriculture products that might pay better… Overall, even if Marvel was the same speed and accuracy as our team, it'd still be a no-brainer."
What Marvel doesn't replace
Somebody still decides what rework is worth doing, handles exceptions, and owns the final standard. Marvel removes the repetitive inspection - not the judgment. Operators who expect zero humans in post-harvest should expect disappointment; operators who want their best people doing better work should talk to us.
Price your QC room against a machine that never gets tired.
A 30-minute discovery call: your current headcount, your throughput, and what the line looks like with Marvel inspecting instead of people.