- Written SOPs your whole team can follow.
- Trained techs who can do the work without you standing over them.
- The right equipment, bought in the right order.
- Simple pricing so every compound makes money.
- Your first cash-pay offers and a few local prescribers sending scripts.
- Records in order before an inspector asks.
Best fit: independent owners with 1 to 3 stores who don't compound yet, or only a little.