CUSTOMER STORY

CANNABIS HELPS
MAXQ CANNABIS MANAGEMENT
AUTOMATION
CERTIFIED WORKS WONDERS
CULTIVATORS NAVIGATE
FOR CURIO WELLNESS
COMPLIANCE & INCREASE SALES

Curio Wellness is a medical

cannabis brandand
Family-owned and-operated
trusted
healthcare partner.
Certified Cultivators holds the
largest cannabis processing
and cultivation
Customer: license
Curio in
Wellness
Ohio and runs a 200,000 sq. ft.
state-of-the-art grow facility.
They are known
Industry: throughout
Medical Cannabis
the state for their super-high-
Production
quality flower, extensive strain
variety, and delicious, gem-
Employees:
themed edibles,
145+in addition to
INTEGRATED CANNABIS MANAGEMENT
their popular distillates and YIELDS BIG BENEFITS
concentrates made in-house to
Location:
their exacting standards.
Baltimore, MD
In the complex world of cannabis manufacturing, the ability to manage operations
efficiently and minimize costs can mean the difference between success and failure.
Customer: Certified Cultivators
Solutions & Services:
STREAMLINING ACCOUNTABILITY
Brad Friedlander, Curio Wellness CIO, described how his company has gained a major
• MaxQ Cannabis
Industry:  annabis cultivation
C & COMPLIANCE FOR METRC
competitive advantage by employing MaxQ Cannabis to manage its cannabis operations.
• and
Microsoft manufacturing
Advanced
Analytics – Project Growing high-grade cannabis and producing premium products requires careful
Analysis As US-based
management cannabis
in all stages ofmanufacturers know, data planning,
the operation—including entry intocultivating,
Metrc is not a
harvesting,
Location: Dayton, Ohio streamlined process. It may only take a few minutes to look through a package’s
testing, curing, extraction, manufacturing, packaging, distribution, inventory management,
• Acumatica ERP
andhistory,
sales. track processing yields, and complete manifests, but all those minutes
add up. In today’s fast-paced, highly competitive cannabusiness landscape,
Solutions & Services:
www.curiowellness.com executives can’t risk any delays.
Running its operations on MaxQ Cannabis, a highly integrated and automated cannabis
• MaxQ Cannabis & Acumatica management solution, has yielded benefits across all these areas, Friedlander said.
Fortunately, as Certified Cultivators discovered, there is one solution built
“MaxQ Cannabis has enabled us to operate with greater efficiency while minimizing
specifically to streamline compliance and cannabis business processes while
www.certifiedcultivators.com costs,” he added.
optimizing business performance.

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“MaxQ Cannabis is a user-friendly system that allows us to maximize
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people’s time,” said Andrew Bonanno, CFO/Controller at Certified
Cultivators. “Its overlay over Metrc makes it so users don’t have to be
in Metrc anymore. They can just push the data straight from MaxQ to

MAXQ CANNABIS MANAGEMENT

Metrc, and they can push multiple fields at once. As a manual Metrc
user, you’d have to take 5 minutes to do 5 separate things but, with
MaxQ, it now happens instantaneously. MaxQ is a time saver.”
AUTOMATION WORKS WONDERS
FOR CURIO WELLNESS
Here’s another time-saver: In the past, it could take Certified
Cultivators 20-30 minutes in Metrc to determine how much biomass
went into a distillate whereas MaxQ has all that data instantly available
in a glance.

“These days, we’re not missing out on sales because it’s taking too
long to physically fill the order or to do the repack in Metrc and create
the manifest,” Bonanno explained. “People are working efficiently.”

INCREASING LEAFLINK SALES VOLUME

Curio Wellness is a medical
WITH
cannabis AUTOMATED
brand and trusted ORDER FULFILLMENT
healthcare partner.
LeafLink tantalizingly indicates how much cannabusinesses could be
Customer:
selling, if onlyCurio
they Wellness
had the capacity to fill more orders more quickly. To
help, MaxQ Cannabis brings together LeafLink, in-depth analytics, and
a streamlined administrative process for handling packing, assigning
Industry: Medical Cannabis
tags, and completing manifests. With MaxQ Cannabis, manufacturers
Production
can finally increase their sales volume and meet tracked growth goals.

Employees: 145+ INTEGRATED CANNABIS MANAGEMENT

YIELDS
“Before MaxQ Cannabis, we had this BIG
slow, manual BENEFITS
process
that we did by hand. It used to take hours to pack orders
Location:
and now it takes aboutMD
Baltimore, 3 minutes. We can even handle big,
In the complex world of cannabis“Themanufacturing, the ability to manage operations
complex, 25-SKU orders quickly,” Bonanno said. “It’s done MaxQ team’s professionalism and
efficiently and minimize costs can mean the difference between success and failure.
wonders for the volume of orders we handle each week. availability is great. They continue to
Solutions
With & Services:
MaxQ, we’re doing maybe double the orders we were.
update their resources and offerings,
With the same amount of people”Brad Friedlander, Curio Wellness CIO, described how his company has gained a major
• MaxQ Cannabis andMaxQ
competitive advantage by employing improve theto
Cannabis product.
manage itsIt’s had a operations.
cannabis huge
• Microsoft Advanced impact on our ability to fill orders and
Certified Cultivators
Analytics uses MaxQ automation
– Project to push all sales
Growing high-grade cannabis and producing premium products requires careful
orders from LeafLink to MaxQ; themanagement
Analysis team fills thein order, get them to customers,
and, of the operation—including
all stages and to expand
planning, cultivating, harvesting,
when complete pushes a template manifest to Metrc with
testing, curing, extraction, manufacturing,our footprint. All that would
packaging, distribution, have
inventory been
management,
• Acumatica ERP
the correct repacked tags. As Bonanno put it,
and sales.
“There’s a lot less confusion.” difficult without MaxQ Cannabis.”
www.curiowellness.com
Running its operations on MaxQ Cannabis, a highly integrated – Andrew Bonanno,
and automated cannabis
“Our company has great product andmanagement CFO/Controller,
solution,tohas yielded benefits across all these areas, Friedlander said.
we are continuing
“MaxQ
grow, but I don’t think we could have Cannabis
sustained thishas enabled
level of Certifiedwhile
us to operate with greater efficiency Cultivators
minimizing
growth without MaxQ,” Bonanno said. “It’she
costs,” allowed
added.us to grow
at the pace we like to grow at.”

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 ONGOING IMPROVEMENT
Curio Wellness works with MaxQ to extend the system’s capabilities and refine processes in ways that will yield even
CUSTOMER
SOLVING UNIQUESTORY
greater efficiency, Friedlander said. Plans include automating the harvesting of crops with integrated RFID readers, as
PROBLEMS WITH A TEAM
well as adding a host of new Power BI features.
THAT LISTENS TO THE UNIQUE SITUATION
MAXQ CANNABIS MANAGEMENT
Has MaxQ Cannabis delivered the efficiency and cost control benefits he had hoped it would? “Absolutely,” said Friedlander.
“The system not only enables us to operate more efficiently, it gives us a huge advantage over our competitors.”
Bonanno also appreciates the team behind the MaxQ product.
AUTOMATION WORKS WONDERS
FOR CURIO WELLNESS
“The level of attention the MaxQ team gave us really stood out,” Bonanno
said. “We had a lot of video calls and a lot of going over things in the test
environment. We explained how things in Ohio are different from other
markets, and the MaxQ team listened to us and made changes in the
softwareABOUT MAXQ
to make a better TECHNOLOGIES,
product INC. being
for us. We’d see those changes
made in real time.”
As the maker of the most modern, integrated, and scalable cannabis
manufacturing solution, MaxQ has deep cannabis industry expertise.
In one example, Bonanno explained how the MaxQ team took the time to
streamline Certified Cultivators’ processes using customized automation, even
though the software change would only affect Ohio-based manufacturers
like them. “We can click a button instead of having to manually go in and do
Curio Wellness
[Ohio-specific] kitisassemblies.
a medical MaxQ is good at listening.”
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As the maker of the most modern,
Industry: Medical Cannabis integrated, and scalable cannabis
We caught up with Bonanno a few days after the 2023 passage of Ohio’s solution, MaxQ has deep cannabis
Production MaxQ Technologies, Inc.
Issue 2 ballot measure that legalized recreational marijuana, and Certified
sales@maxqtech.com | 203-748-0481 industry expertise.
Cultivators already had a plan to expand into retail operations over the next
Employees:
year. As they make
INTEGRATED CANNABIS MANAGEMENT
145+this transition, Bonannowww.maxqtech.com
and his team look forward to
YIELDS BIG BENEFITS
tapping into the MaxQ team’s extensive experience with other vertically
integrated clients.
Location: Baltimore, MD
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is the difference between success and failure.
great,” Bonanno said. “They’re
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working with
Brad Friedlander, more
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Wellness CIO, groups
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• Acumatica ERP
MaxQ team will be there to help us.” solutions in
testing, curing, extraction, manufacturing, packaging, distribution, inventory management,
and sales.
Truly, the feeling is mutual. We at
the cannabis
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its operations on MaxQ
are honored witha highly manufacturing
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to partner integrated and automated cannabis
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forward to
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to operate industry.
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needs
costs,” he over many years to come.
added.

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