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Agro-industrial business case: investment grade in two months
Three plants, two sub-plants, FDA and HACCP compliance and a three-phase roadmap with CAPEX and OPEX broken down. The business case an investor can actually evaluate.
In two months we built the investment-grade business case for an agro-industrial complex in a Costa Rican free trade zone: three plants and two sub-plants, FDA and HACCP compliance, and a three-phase construction roadmap with CAPEX and OPEX broken down by stage.
What was the assignment?
An investor needed a business case that could withstand financier scrutiny: an agro-industrial complex integrating production, storage and innovation inside a free trade zone, while achieving FDA and HACCP compliance.
The complexity was real: three plants plus sub-plants, each with unique process flows, compliance paths and market destinations, ranging from food and nutraceuticals to packaging inputs. The plan had to sequence construction and certification across three years without promising capacity it couldn't sustain.
What we delivered
- Executive summary with the investment thesis and the phased construction roadmap.
- Full product and capacity architecture across three processing plants and two sub-plants, with outputs ranging from gluten-free flours and dehydrated fruits to concentrates and starch pellets.
- CAPEX breakdown by category and OPEX by phase, with the financing structure: external funding only in Phase 1, subsequent phases funded by reinvested margins.
- Multi-scenario revenue and cost forecasts aligned with wholesale buyer expectations.
- HACCP-aligned operational flowcharts and standard operating procedures.
- A complete headcount plan ensuring regulatory compliance and production-aligned staffing.
- Stakeholder map: government bodies, certifiers, financial backers and potential multinational buyers.
An investor doesn't buy the idea: they buy the detail. CAPEX by category says more than any optimistic projection.
What your company can take from this case
Raising capital isn't telling the project well: it's proving you understand its cost, its compliance and its sequence. If you can't explain what gets built in Phase 1 and with whose money, there isn't a business case yet.
