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Unit Economics: Thinking Like an Operator

What "Good" Looks Like & How to Think in Grams-Per

The benchmarks a dialed room hits, and the grams-per-watt, grams-per-square-foot mental model that turns cultivation into a P&L you can actually reason about.

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Operators don't think in "a good harvest." They think in normalized units — grams per square foot of canopy, grams per watt (or per mol of light delivered), grams per light. Normalizing is what lets you compare rooms, compare cycles, and know whether a change actually helped or you just got a lucky run. If you can't express your output per unit of your most expensive inputs (space and power), you can't manage the business.

The benchmarks a dialed room hits

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