Services

A controlled professional service, not software. Each step is fixed-scope, with evidence and version control throughout. Initial operating focus: California, Oregon, and Colorado packaging.

1. Free fit check

Purpose: qualify, not advise. You send:

• Legal entities and brands selling into each state
• States supplied and approximate revenue / packaging tonnage bands
• Current registrations or reports, if any
• Number of unique packaging configurations (not just SKUs)
• Where packaging specifications live — a redacted example is ideal

You get a short email with likely next steps, missing facts, and issues for counsel. Not a legal memo; no definitive exemption finding where judgment is required.

2. Packaging data diagnostic (paid entry product)

Bounded diagnostic, up to 25 configurations:

• Source-file inventory — every file logged, originals never overwritten
• Product-to-packaging-configuration map
• Component register with evidence and confidence per component
• Missing-data and supplier-request list
• State-sales data readiness review
• Fixed proposal for remediation and reporting

This converts uncertainty into a scoped job without promising a filing or savings prematurely. It is the preferred first paid step.

3. Filing-ready data package (pilot)

Up to 50 configurations, up to 3 states:

• Normalized packaging bill of materials
• State-specific assumptions supplied/approved by you or your counsel
• Category mapping with rule citations and version dates
• State-supply aggregation and two-way reconciliation
• Fee estimate or range from the named published schedule — or a clear “unavailable”
• Unresolved-issue register with owners
• Draft portal upload workbook, sign-off record, evidence archive and change log

4. Annual managed update

• Source-change monitoring and quarterly packaging-change collection
• Year-end state-sales refresh, mapping and schedule updates
• Annual reports, invoice reconciliation, audit-ready archive

Optional: packaging scenario analysis

Compare a current component with a specified alternative under a named fee schedule. EPR-fee impact is kept separate from procurement cost, conversion cost, product loss, transport, food-contact and safety requirements, and labeling consequences.

What the work does not promise

• A legal opinion on producer status or exemptions
• Acceptance by an agency or PRO
• A particular invoice or penalty outcome
• Guaranteed savings — unless measured against a real, comparable, approved baseline
• A filing based on knowingly incomplete data

Pricing

Fixed scope, fixed proposal after the diagnostic — no hourly meter, no percentage-of-“savings” arrangements. The diagnostic itself is fixed-fee and quoted after the fit check, once the configuration count is known. Email alex@producerledger.com to start.