Dark and bitter. Weeping in the jar. Grainy as rock candy. Sitting there refusing to set. Send me the batch details in writing and I'll tell you exactly what went wrong and how to fix it — no discovery calls, no retainer.
A failed commercial batch costs $10,000–$25,000. The fix costs $1,250.
Ten years running a commercial hemp-gummy line · early CBG formulator · flat-rate, async diagnosis
Sound familiar?
These are real production failure modes — the ones that show up at 11pm the night before a fill run.
Batch cooked too hot or held too long — color turns brown, flavor turns sharp. Usually a temperature and hold-time problem.
Syrup beads on the surface in the jar. A moisture-balance and finish problem — common with pectin systems.
Sugar crystallizes and the gummy turns hard and gritty. A doctoring-ratio and cook problem.
Still tacky or soupy hours later. Gelling agent, pH, or ratio is off — the batch never builds structure.
A dull, filmy coat on the surface. A coating and cure problem that makes a good batch look defective.
Inconsistent set across the tray, sticking in the mold, short shelf life. Describe it in the intake and I'll diagnose it.
How it works
Fill out the form below — product type, gelling agent, batch size, symptoms, photos, and your recipe if you're comfortable sharing it. It's all confidential.
I read the batch, reproduce the failure in my head against ten years on the line, and pinpoint the cause — not a guess, a mechanism.
A written diagnosis, a corrected SOP you can hand to your line, and a Loom walkthrough. Rescue + Live adds a 60-minute working session.
Flat rate — no retainer, no hourly
The diagnosis and the fix, in writing.
Everything in Rescue, plus time with me.
Payment is invoiced after I review your intake and confirm it's something I can fix. You approve the invoice before any work starts.
Who you're working with
I've spent ten years running a commercial hemp-gummy manufacturing line. I was an early CBG formulator when most people hadn't heard of the cannabinoid. I'm not a consultant who read a deck — I'm the person who has scrapped the bad batch, re-run it at 2am, and figured out why it broke so it wouldn't break again.
Fix My Gummy is that decade, packaged. You send the batch that's costing you money; I tell you what's actually wrong and how to make it right. That's the whole service.
Batch intake
The more detail you give, the sharper the diagnosis. Everything here is confidential. I reply personally within one business day.
Your intake reached me. I'll review it and reply personally within one business day with next steps and an invoice if it's something I can fix.
The 11pm questions
Weeping — syrup beading on the surface in the jar — is almost always a moisture-balance problem in a pectin system: the finished water activity is too high, the doctoring ratio is off, or the pieces were jarred before they finished curing. The intake asks for your ratios and finish step so I can tell you which one it is for your batch.
Dark, bitter gummies usually mean the batch was cooked too hot or held too long — sugars and other ingredients brown under heat and time. The fix is a temperature and hold-time correction, sometimes with a sequence change. Send your cook temps and times and I'll pinpoint it.
"Rock candy" texture is graining — sugar crystallizing out instead of staying in an amorphous set. It comes from the doctoring ratio, cook, or how the batch was cooled. It's one of the most fixable failures once you see the numbers.
Often, yes — a batch that won't set is usually a gelling-agent, pH, or ratio problem, not a ruined batch. Whether this specific batch can be reworked or is better re-run is exactly what the diagnosis tells you.
No. Rescue is fully async: you send the intake, I send back a written diagnosis, a corrected SOP, and a Loom walkthrough. If you want live time, Rescue + Live adds a 60-minute session — but it's optional.
After I review your intake. If it's something I can fix, I send an invoice; you approve it before any work starts. No payment is taken up front and nothing is charged just for submitting the form.
Yes. Your recipe is optional and confidential — I use it only to diagnose your batch, and it's never shared or reused. If you'd rather hold it back, send the symptoms and photos and I'll work from those.