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Customers ask Manna two kinds of questions.
01 · Two kinds of questions
The questions that wait, and the questions that don't
The first kind fits a phase. Is the case viable? What do we build? How do we control the climate? How do we run production day to day? Manna's four journey solutions answer those, in order — the BSF Business Case Service, Facility Design & BOM, Manna MIND, and the Insect Farm Hub.
The second kind doesn't wait for a phase.
A recipe that worked last month stops performing. A regulator asks for documentation nobody prepared. A new substrate shows up and someone has to decide go or no-go this week. An operator needs to learn how to run a colony before the first larvae arrive.
That second kind is what Expert Consultancy is for.
02 · What it includes
The flexible advisory layer
It's the flexible advisory layer that runs across the whole journey — not a sequential step, but the service customers reach for when a specific problem lands and they want someone who has seen it before. Concretely, it includes:
- Fast Track to Insect Business: a focused pre-purchase business validation, before any CAPEX is committed.
- On-site installation and commissioning: a hands-on intensive on the customer's own site.
- Remote project management: sourcing, assembly and ramp-up support, without travel.
- Rearing and breeding training: operators leave knowing how to run a colony, not just how to start one.
- General consultancy: recipe development, troubleshooting and process questions, as they come up.
- BSF Validation Service: a six-month container rental plus training, for customers who want to test BSF in their own market before committing to a full build.
03 · Why it works
Built on operating real facilities
The honest part: Manna doesn't pretend every answer lives in a manual. Eight years of operating real facilities — and watching which approaches hold up and which quietly fail — is what the advisory is actually built on. The deliverable isn't a document. It's not repeating an expensive mistake.
And it's often where a customer starts. Not everyone begins with a turnkey factory. Some begin with one question, one module and one advisor — and grow from there.
We've seen exactly that: a business in an adjacent controlled-environment field that entered BSF through advisory and a single MIND-powered module, rather than a full facility.
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Related topics and pages
- What Manna does: positioning and solutions — where Expert Consultancy sits among Manna's solutions
- BSF Business Case Service: an honest go / no-go — the first journey solution the Fast Track advisory builds on
- Articles library — the written library this advisory post joins
Read next
- What Manna does: positioning and solutions — where Expert Consultancy sits among Manna's solutions
- BSF Business Case Service: an honest go / no-go — the validation step the Fast Track advisory builds on
- Team offsite: what we're building next — the service model the flexible advisory layer belongs to
- Manna MIND is a platform, not a product — the platform behind the MIND solution the journey builds on
Next step
Bring us the question
Manna can start from the specific problem in front of you, whether it is a recipe, a regulator, a new substrate or an operator who needs to learn before the first larvae arrive.