Modern food manufacturing facility with quality control professionals

SQF Only · Tech Driven

Every manufacturer deserves a corporate food safety team. Now you can afford one.

MI — Manufacturing Intelligence

MI Consulting Group becomes the corporate team you've never been able to build in-house. We focus exclusively on the SQF system so we can deliver the best results possible. We implement your program, develop the loyal employees you already have into food safety leaders, and get better at it with every client we serve. No more revolving-door hires. No more consultant dependency.

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The Industry Problem

Small Manufacturers Are Set Up to Fail

The food safety consulting industry is broken. Here's what most manufacturers are dealing with.

Can't Afford a Full-Time Expert

A qualified SQF Practitioner costs $70K-$100K+ per year. Most small and mid-size plants simply don't have the budget, so they go without or settle for whoever they can find.

Revolving Door of Talent

You hire a food safety specialist, invest months training them, and they leave for a better offer. The knowledge walks out the door with them. Meanwhile, your long-term employees who know your facility inside and out never get the chance to grow into that role.

Consultants Who Create Dependency

Most food safety consultants build the system for you but never teach your team to run it. You pay them forever because you can't function without them. That's not consulting, that's a trap.

Binder-Based Programs

Your SQF system lives in binders and filing cabinets. Audits are stressful, records are hard to find, and nobody on the floor actually uses the system day-to-day.

Floor Teams Left Behind

When training and documentation are English-only, a significant portion of your workforce is disconnected from the food safety program they're supposed to follow every day.

No Investment in Your Own People

Your long-term employees know your facility, your products, and your culture better than any outside hire ever will. But without a corporate team to develop them, they never get the training or career path to step into food safety leadership.

Our Solution

Your Corporate Food Safety Team

MI Consulting Group operates as a dedicated corporate food safety department for your facility. We focus exclusively on the SQF system so we can deliver better results with every engagement. We build your program, establish the standard work, and develop your internal people so the system runs long after we scale back.

SQF Program Design

We design your complete SQF system from scratch: HACCP/food safety plans, prerequisite programs, SOPs, forms, and logs, all tailored to your facility and built to last.

Cloud-Based Digital Platform

Your SQF program lives in cloud-based food safety software, not binders. Digital forms, checklists, monitoring logs, and workflows keep your team organized and audit-ready every day.

Standard Work Routines

We establish every recurring activity your facility needs to stay compliant: internal audits, HACCP reviews, sanitation audits, management reviews, training, and more, with clear ownership and frequency.

Develop Your Existing People

Your best investment is in the loyal employees you already have. We train and coach them to grow into food safety leaders, giving them a career path they never had access to. The knowledge stays in your company, and your people stay because they see a future.

Bilingual Team Support

Our team provides training, documentation, and coaching in both English and Spanish so every member of your production team understands and follows the food safety program.

Audits, Recalls & Crisis Support

Internal audits, SQF certification audit prep, mock recall drills, and crisis response. The high-skill work that even the strongest internal teams benefit from having corporate-level support on.

Our Tier Model

Full-Time → Part-Time → Partial Corporate Team

Every client starts with MI as their full-time corporate food safety team. As your internal people develop, you graduate to lower tiers and lower costs. Or stay at any level that fits your company. No pressure, no lock-in.

BUILD — $5,000/mo

Full-Time Corporate Team

MI handles all standard work activities while building your SQF program from scratch. We design the system, configure the digital platform, and begin developing your existing employees into food safety roles. Your people learn alongside our corporate team every step of the way.

GROWTH — $2,500/mo

Part-Time Corporate Team

Your internal employees now lead day-to-day operations and take on most standard work. MI coaches them through it, conducts select activities, and refines documentation. The people you invested in are growing into the role, with MI's corporate backing behind them.

SUSTAIN — $1,500/mo

Partial Corporate Team

Your employees are now independent food safety leaders running all routine standard work on their own. MI stays on as your corporate safety net for high-skill work: internal audits, SQF certification audit prep, mock recall drills, and crisis support. Your people own it. We back them up.

Every engagement is month-to-month. Graduation is based on your team's readiness, not a timeline. Some clients stay at Tier 3 long-term because they want a full corporate department. Others graduate to Tier 1 because they want independence. We support both.

Why We're Different

We Build Your People, Not Dependency

Most consultants want you to need them forever. We want your team to outgrow us.

Food safety team reviewing compliance system in a manufacturing facility

More Cost-Effective Than Hiring

A full-time SQF expert costs $70K-$100K+ per year and they might leave tomorrow. MI gives you an entire corporate team starting at $5,000/mo, scaling down to $1,500/mo as your existing employees develop. You invest in people who are already loyal to your company instead of gambling on outside hires.

We Develop the Employees You Already Have

Your long-term employees know your facility better than anyone. We give them the training, coaching, and career path to step into food safety leadership. They build real skills, earn new responsibilities, and stay because they see a future at your company.

We're Always Here

Outside hires leave. We don't. Even at Tier 1, MI stays on as your corporate safety net for audits, recalls, and crisis support. And because we developed multiple people on your team, your food safety program never depends on one person walking out the door.

Standard Work, Not Guesswork

We establish every recurring activity your facility needs, with clear ownership and frequency at each tier. Your team always knows exactly what to do, when to do it, and who is responsible.

SQF Only. And We Keep Getting Better.

We focus exclusively on the SQF system. Every engagement makes us sharper. While generalist consultants spread their attention across a dozen standards, we go deeper on SQF with every client we serve. That focus means better results for your facility.

How It Works

Getting Started Is Simple

Four steps from where you are today to having your own corporate food safety team.

Discovery Call

We learn about your facility, your current food safety program, and your SQF goals. No pressure, just a conversation about where you are and where you want to be.

Gap Assessment

We evaluate your facility against SQF requirements, identify what's missing, and build a customized roadmap with priorities and a standard work schedule.

Build & Train

MI comes on as your full-time corporate team. We build your SQF program, configure the digital platform, establish standard work routines, and start training your internal people.

Grow & Graduate

As your team develops, you graduate to lower tiers and lower costs. MI scales from full-time to part-time to partial corporate support. Or stay at any tier that fits your company.

"MI Consulting Group didn't just consult. They became our corporate food safety team, built our entire SQF system, and trained our people to run it. We passed our first audit with confidence, and our internal team has never been stronger."

— SQF-Certified Manufacturing Client

SQF Practitioner

Six Sigma Black Belt

Remote & On-Site

Digital-First