About Local Bounti

• Local Bounti is a Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) operation focused on shortening the distance between the farm and the consumer's plate
• At present, they have growing and packing operations in Montana, Georgia, California, Washington, and Texas

• Their facilities use 90% less water and 90% less land than traditional agriculture through cutting-edge technology
• Local Bounti products, from grab-and-go salad kits to bagged spinach, lettuce, and other greens, can be found in over 13,000 retail locations around the United States
• Senior FSQA Manager Kyle Farmer oversaw their successful move to SQF certification

Stuck in the Paper Struggle

• Despite being cutting-edge in their growing technology, Local Bounti previously ran their SQF program entirely on paper
• With their teams spread across multiple timezones, it was difficult for managers like Kyle to keep tabs on operations and monitor risk
• The process of binder preparation for audits was an enormous time-sink, with stressful uncertainty if everything was in its place
• Document control was a growing challenge as Local Bounti brought new facilities and teams on-line; picking and choosing which parts of their existing documents to bring over to the new sites gave rise to an unwieldy initiation period for each

The Transition to Digital

• Kyle discovered Provision and saw its potential as an option to centralize and streamline their daily record-keeping and document management
• Without all the ancillary bells and whistles of some other software, Provision's simplicity and ease of use made it easy to integrate with their existing systems

The Digital Advantage

• Since going digital, Kyle has enjoyed remote dashboard visibility, which lets him check in on any operation from anywhere, saving travel costs and limiting delays for risk management
• Having their data and documentation digitized allows Local Bounti's management to identify not only possible issues, but also things that are going well, enabling them to reward those instances and build food safety culture
• Audit preparation is no longer a chore, and the audit process itself is far simpler for both the SQF auditor and Local Bounti's management

Looking Toward the Future

• As Local Bounti continues to expand at a rapid pace, they are able to efficiently transfer and customize digitized processes and documentation to new sites with Provision