Our Process

Seed to shelf,
nothing hidden.

Most brands ask you to trust the label. We built the proof into every step instead — from the licensed farm that grows it to the verifier code that proves it's real in your hand. Here's exactly how a Sauce product gets made.

The six steps

Six steps. Zero shortcuts.

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Step 01 · Licensed farms

Cultivated

It starts in the soil. We source from licensed California cultivators in Humboldt, Mendocino, and the Emerald Triangle — verified soil, water, and feeding practices, strain genetics tracked back generations. No fillers, no mystery inputs.

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Step 02 · Slow & cold

Harvested & cured

Flower is hang-dried and cold-cured to protect the volatile terpenes that give each strain its character — the compounds heat and rushed processing destroy. Patience is the whole point.

03
Step 03 · Cold-cured live resin

Extracted

We extract cold to preserve a full terpene spectrum. Live resin for flavor, distillate for potency — each method matched to the product line, never blended to cut corners.

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Step 04 · Independent labs

Lab tested — twice

Every batch goes to an independent, state-licensed lab. Potency, pesticides, heavy metals, microbials, residual solvents. We test to thresholds tighter than the state minimum, and a batch that fails never reaches a shelf. No remediation, no second chances.

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Step 05 · One-time verifier

Sealed & coded

Each package is sealed with a tamper-evident silver scratch panel hiding a one-time verifier code, hashed and stored server-side. Scratch it, enter it, and you know in five seconds whether your product is authentic — and whether anyone has checked it before.

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Step 06 · METRC chain-of-custody

Tracked & delivered

Every unit is tracked through METRC and BioTrack from cultivator to dispensary. Full chain-of-custody, all the way to the licensed shop that hands it to you. We never ship through unlicensed channels — ever.

Why it matters

The grey market doesn't
do any of this.

Tested for what hurts you

Pesticides, heavy metals, residual solvents, and Vitamin E acetate — the exact contaminants behind the 2019 EVALI outbreak — are screened out before ship. Unregulated products skip this entirely.

A COA you can actually read

Every batch number maps to an independent Certificate of Analysis, and our public COA library is launching soon — so you can match the code on your package to the lab report. Full transparency, not a marketing claim.

Liability that's real

A licensed operator that ships a bad batch loses its license — the most valuable thing it owns. That accountability is the entire point of the regulated chain, and it doesn't exist off it.

Verify your Sauce
Proof, not promises

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Run the code.

Five seconds tells you what an entire supply chain stands behind. Scratch, enter, verify.

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