The GP-10 Blog

Operational intelligence
for CEA operators.

Deep dives on facility performance, R-Score benchmarks, and the Rule of 10s framework. Written from real assessments, not theory.

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Rule 1

The Hero Tax

Your best grower leaving costs $300–500K per cycle. Most facilities have no system to prevent it from happening again.

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Rule 2

The 5-Minute Diagnosis

JR walks into a facility and sees the limiting factor in five minutes. You have been staring at it for years.

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Rule 4

The Medium Nobody Questions

You picked your substrate once and never re-evaluated it. It is costing you in ways that do not show up until you measure.

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Rule 5

What Your Facility Looks Like at Night

Over 80% of botrytis infections start during the night RH peak. Most facilities are not measuring it when it happens.

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Framework

Why SOPs Are Necessary but Not Sufficient

SOPs describe what to do. GP-10 explains why. The gap between those two things is where most operational risk lives.

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R-Score

What a 6 Looks Like

A score of 6 is not failure. It is the most common score we see. Here is what it means, and what separates a 6 from an 8.

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The book behind the benchmark.

The Rule of 10s is the first standardized benchmarking framework for CEA operations. The blog is the preview. The book is the full system.

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