Bio

Jay Evans is founder and CEO of Keirton Inc., parent of Twister Technologies. Over 20-plus years in commercial cultivation, Jay has held ownership in 10 cannabis facilities and toured 500+ grows across North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Keirton's equipment has processed more than 80 million pounds of cannabis to date.

Jay has consulted to some of the largest cannabis brands globally on post-harvest architecture, throughput, and yield recovery. He writes and speaks regularly on the operational economics of cannabis post-harvest at scale.

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Areas of expertise

• Cannabis post-harvest economics and architecture (drying, bucking, trimming, sorting, curing)
• Value recovery and recovery-rate measurement
• Cannabis drying, curing, and water-activity protocols
• Automation, AI vision, and intelligent stream separation in post-harvest
• Labor, throughput, and yield trade-offs at commercial scale

Selected writing

• Most cannabis yield gains are hiding in plain sight
• Don't drop the ball on the one-yard line