I didn't walk into cannabis as an accountant. I walked in as a budtender.

That was early 2023. I'd spent the better part of a decade in the auto body industry, working from delivery driver to Operations Manager, and along the way I got hooked on how businesses actually run — how cash moves, where it leaks, and why the numbers so often don't tell the truth. I studied Accounting and Business at Rowan College at Burlington County, but I've always learned faster by doing. So when cannabis opened a door, I took it at the ground level: entry-level budtender at one of New Jersey's fastest-growing multi-state operators. Not to stay at the register — to learn the industry from the inside.

What stopped me cold wasn't the company. It was the industry. Cannabis runs on cash, gets no help from banks, and carries audit exposure most industries never face — and yet operators were moving eight figures on habits built for a corner store. Reconciliations by hand. Cash processes with gaps that were nobody's fault and everybody's problem. Systems that survived not because they worked, but because “that's how we've always done it.”

I didn't wait to be asked to fix it. Over two years I moved from patient advisor to Senior Accountant, and on my own — with clean ownership of everything I built — I designed the Daily Rec'd Process: a cash reconciliation framework that matches deposits against sales in real time and surfaces the discrepancies that hand-done reconciliations quietly miss. It's the culmination of a decade of finding money others had written off as the cost of doing business — the same instinct that closed gaps on an auto body shop floor, now built into a system for how dispensaries actually operate.

That process became Cannaccounts Solutions. It works in three steps: we come in and find exactly where revenue is slipping through the cracks; we put the Daily Rec'd system in your team's hands through training and ongoing support; and for operators who want it all, we run the books end to end — like hiring a team of staff accountants without the overhead.

Here's where it goes. Cannaccounts is built to be the financial backbone of every cannabis operator. I didn't build this in a boardroom. I built it from the bottom of this industry, learned exactly where the money slips through, and built the system to close the gap — one that's ready to scale the moment the industry is.