Agrify Corporation (AGFY) Q3 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

Agrify Corporation (NASDAQ:AGFY) Q3 2022 Earnings Conference Call November 9, 2022 8:30 AM ET

Company Participants

Anna Kate Heller – Senior Vice President-Investor Relations

Raymond Chang – Chief Executive Officer

Timothy Oakes – Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Remy Smith – Alliance Global Partners

Eric Des Lauriers – Craig-Hallum

Anthony Vendetti – Maxim Group

Operator

Greetings and welcome to the Agrify Third Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. [Operator instructions] As a reminder this conference is being recorded.

It is now my pleasure to introduce your host Anna Kate Heller. Please go ahead.

Anna Kate Heller

Good morning and welcome to Agrify’s third quarter 2022 earnings call. With us on today’s call are Raymond Chang, Chief Executive Officer; and Timothy Oakes, Chief Financial Officer. Today, management will review the highlights and financial results for the third quarter and provide a business and operational update. Following management’s remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. A reminder that today’s conference call is being recorded and a replay will be available on Agrify’s Investor Relations website at ir.agrify.com. Please note that we will be referring to information that’s contained within our earnings press release, which can be accessed on the Investor Relations website as well.

Before we begin, we would like to remind everyone that management’s remarks contain forward-looking statements and management may make additional forward-looking statements in response to your question. Such statements involve a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside the company’s control that could cause its future results, performance, or achievements to differ significantly from the results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include the risks detailed in our public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and those mentioned in the earnings release. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking or other statements herein, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

I will now turn it over to Raymond.

Raymond Chang

Thanks, Anna Kate, and thank you everyone for joining us on the call today. I’m going to begin by providing an overview of our performance in Q3 as well as some recent updates on our business and then our Chief Financial Officer, Tim Oakes, is going to discuss our Q3 financial results in greater detail. After that I will go over – I’ll look for the remainder of 2022 and then we will open up the call for questions.

For the third quarter, we ended up with $7 million in revenue. It is very important that I explained the shortfall in our Q3 revenue in more detail. As we have disclosed publicly our customer Bud & Mary’s defaulted on its construction loan facility and we serve them with a default notice on September 15th. In Bud & Mary’s filed a baseless lawsuit in attempt to avoid having to repay the credit facility. The lawsuit is entirely without merit and we are taking all necessary steps to pursue repayment from Bud & Mary’s.

As a result of the pending lawsuits and based on the ASC 606 revenue recognition standard, we elected not to recognize $5.3 million of design and build revenue related to Bud & Mary’s project in Q3. I want to reiterate that we are confident that we are – we have the legal rights and means necessary to recover the deferred revenue once the legal process runs its course. Bud & Mary’s construction loan is guaranteed by Bud & Mary’s Holding and David Morgan, Founder and CEO of Bud & Mary’s personally. You can be assured that Agrify will continue to take every step necessary to pursue repayment from Bud & Mary’s and protect all our shareholders’ interests. On top line Q3 revenue number was also obviously impacted as a result of the tight quarterly cash spending limit imposed by our institutional lender. In order to stay in full compliance, we were forced to make some difficult decisions but necessary to ended up inhibiting our ability to maximize revenue in Q3.

Ideally, we would have liked to convert more of our backlog into revenue. In total, we estimate that the cash spending limit prevented us from realizing approximately $1.8 million in revenue that was otherwise within reach for Q3. In total, we estimate that there was about $7.1 million of the negative impact to our Q3 top line stemming from these two factors. Again, $5.3 million deferred due to the meritless Bud & Mary’s lawsuits and approximately $1.8 million of business push out to Q4 due to our cash spending limit. Additionally, some of our customers also encounter the unforeseen construction and permitting delays not related to Agrify, which impacted their ability in Q3 to accept some of the products and solutions that they committed to purchase through Agrify. This had a tangible impact on our Q3 result as well to the tune of approximately $1.3 million, but these orders are all expected to be shipped in Q4.

Despite these hindrances, we generated over $11.2 million in new booking during the third quarter. It is worth noting that starting from this from Q3, we have decided not to include the expected recurring revenue streams such as SaaS or production success fees that often spent multiple years, but do not commence until our customer facilities are fully permitted and operational. Moving forward, we will only associate bookings with hardware sales that we expect to fulfill in the near-term with SaaS and production success revenues we will provide the approximate number of VFUs currently under contract and the duration of each recurring revenue, by doing so I believe this will give everyone a clearer picture of our near-term revenue potential as well as our more exciting long-term recurring revenue streams. Again, the booking for Q3 without the SaaS and production success fees was approximately $11.2 million as these are all hardware sales that we could realize in the near-term. The additional bookings on SaaS and production fees ranges between 5 to 10 years with some production revenues attached to it.

As the broader business environment continues to be very challenging one to navigate, we have remained nimble by continuing to adjust our operating approach, adapt to evolving customer needs and develop and deploy technology that is versatile and scalable. We also continue to make progress with our growing product portfolio and are seeing very strong traction with our recent innovations and product offerings. With regard to our operation – operating approach, we have talked in the past about cost reduction and cost efficiency measures. We have instituted to promote cash conservation giving the industry downturn. To ensure the health of our business we continue to pursue costs saving initiatives that will better position our business over the long-term to capitalize when the industry returns to growth.

I want to be clear that many of the cost reduction and cost efficiency initiatives, we discussed last quarter, have already been implemented and are still in effect and we are actively evaluating other possibilities as well as we look to protect the company from the turbulence we have encountered in recent months. Now, some of the other developments, we continue to see very strong traction with our rapid deployment program, the RDPs. We recently announced three new RDP customers in Illinois, Massachusetts and South Africa. The combined agreements for these three new customers have an expected base value of $7.5 million in cultivation related hardware sales. On top, there are also future recurring SaaS and production success fees.

As a reminder, the RDP programs was designed to lower the barrier to entry and upfront investment needed for customers to access the best-in-class plug and play cultivation and extraction capability with an accelerated path to profitability. Using the RDP programs, each customers will have the potential to produce an estimated 7.5 pounds of premium quality flowers per VFU per growth cycle with approximately 5.2 growth cycles expected to be possible each year. We are excited to see early customer success with the RDPs and look forward to bringing the RDP program to even more customers throughout the world.

We intend to start taking orders for greater volume of RDPs starting in the first quarter of 2023 and also in the upcoming MJBiz. We also look forward to showcasing our latest development and advancement in the RDP programs at MJBiz next week and we will have more to share on that front in the coming days. On the extraction site, I am pleased that we recently announced successful commercialization of the PX10 Hydrocarbon cannabis extractor that was initially availed in August. The PX10 will soon be installed at three customer facilities including at a key customer site in Maryland belonging to Alchemist Ventures. All progress with the PX10 has demonstrated our ability to not only successfully turn a product vision into reality, but also our capacity to work closely with a growing number of prominent customers, including multi-state operators to enable them through our cutting edge solution to grow their business.

I’m also happy to report that the development of our new 3.7 VFUs is now complete and we expect to start shipping these units to customers in the first quarter of 2023. Regarding our TTK projects, the Bud & Mary’s project is obviously on hold. The other three customer sites, Treehouse in Nevada, Greenstone in Colorado and Hannah in Washington are all left with some mining construction and permitting tasks. We expect that the initial phase of each of these projects will be completed in quarter four at which time the customers are expected to begin to bring implant materials into their facilities.

Once the final license is certification of occupancy are received, which we expect to occur in quarter one, we will be able to start generating the high margin recurring SaaS and production revenue shortly thereafter. We still believe that the TTK engagement with our customers across these three facilities, which serve as an excellent proof of concept for the underlying business model and the attractive returns of our TTK programs. Last but not least, it was truly an honor for Agrify to be recognized in September when we received the best cultivation technology during the Green Market Report’s Tech Summit. The Green Market Report is one of the permanent sources of financial business and economic news in the cannabis industry and its awards recognized companies in the cannabis industry for the creation of innovative product and services. We are a clear leader in the indoor cultivation space and we have created Agrify has set a new standard for what is possible.

In summary, we remain determined to be highly successful over the long-term despite the short-term challenges that we are encountering in recent months. We have conviction in the underlying health of our business for the following reasons. Number one, interest and enthusiasm in our highly differentiated portfolio of cultivation extraction solutions remain strong as our pipeline of qualified sales opportunities currently stands at over $31.1 million for cultivation and over $45.9 million for extraction. Our diversified mix of products and services gives us tremendous flexibility to adjust our approach to capitalize on whatever market opportunities are most attractive at any point in time and respond swiftly to challenges that arise in this dynamic operating environment.

Three and probably the most exciting, our products have strong global appeal and given the quality control is absolutely imperative, especially in the EUs because of the incredibly high EU-GMP standards, we are very confident that our offering will become highly adopted throughout the European market, which is eventually expected to become one of the world’s largest market for legal cannabis. Overall, we’re getting substantial interest in our cultivation extraction solution from a wide variety of international customers.

At this point, I would like to turn the call over to Tim to talk about the financial results for the quarter.

Timothy Oakes

Thank you, Raymond. Good morning everyone and thank you for once again joining us on today’s earnings call. As we’ve done in prior quarters, I’ll take some time to speak to our third quarter 2022 financial results and then I’ll pass the call back to Raymond for closing remarks.

Like last quarter, there’s a lot to digest with respect to our third quarter financial performance. So it is going to take some time or some extra time to go through everything. Starting with revenue. Revenue in the third quarter of 2022 totaled $7 million compared to revenue of $15.8 million in the third quarter of 2021. This represents an $8.8 million or 55.4% year-over-year decrease in comparative quarterly revenue.

The decrease in third quarter 2022 revenue is solely related to a comparative year-over-year decline in our lower margin design and build revenue. Design and build revenue declined by $11.7 million in the comparative quarterly periods from $13 million in the third quarter of 2021 to $1.3 million in the third quarter of 2022.

It is important to note that third quarter 2022 design and build revenue excludes approximately $5.3 million of revenue associated with our TTK solution project with Bud & Mary’s. This revenue has been deferred as a direct result of Bud & Mary’s lawsuit, which challenges our ability to recognize the revenue on the work perform during the quarter as collectability of the amounts becomes uncertain.

And as Raymond mentioned in his script earlier, despite the accounting position taken by the company during the current quarter, the company tends to vigorously defend itself against the claims made by Bud & Mary’s in its lawsuit and believes that it has the documented support to prevail in this matter and the legal recourse necessary to recover the outstanding amounts due to the company and its stockholders in this matter. The company recognized approximately $5.7 million in extraction related revenue during the third quarter. No extraction related revenue was recorded by the company in the third quarter of 2021 as the company had not entered that vertical yet.

It is worthwhile to note that the amount of extraction revenue during the third quarter was negatively impacted as a result of the company’s debt modification agreement, which the [indiscernible] which the company was unable to ship approximately $1.8 million of extraction equipment due to the quarterly cash spend limits imposed under the restructured debt agreement.

Bookings for the third quarter of 2022 were approximately $11.2 million of which $5.6 million was related to extraction products. We entered the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022 with approximately $646 million in backlogs. A significant portion of our reported backlog amount is derived from future TTK related recurring revenue streams, which are associated with both our SaaS and production success fees in account for approximately 90% of the total backlog amount. It is important to note that our current backlog is materially reduced from the reported backlog amount during our second quarter earnings call.

The sole driver of this reduction is the removal of forward looking recurring SaaS and production fee revenue amounts due to our issuance of the default notice to Bud & Mary’s and their subsequently filed lawsuit.

Total gross loss in the associated negative gross profit margin in the third quarter of 2022 was a negative $4.1 million or roughly 58.6% of total revenue compared to a gross loss of 380,000 or 2.4% of total revenue in the third quarter of 2021. The comparative change in year-over-year, third quarter gross loss and gross margin primarily reflects the deferral of the previously discussed $5.3 million in third quarter 2022 design and build revenue offset by the incremental gross profit and gross profit margin contributions from our extraction related product sales. Extraction related revenue was achieved a gross profit margin of approximately 27% in the third quarter of 2022.

The company was not able to defer the construction costs with the deferred design and build revenue during the third quarter of 2022, which significantly impacted the company’s overall gross profit and gross margin performance during the third quarter.

Moving on to operating expenses. Third quarter 2022 general and administrative expenses increased by $16.4 million or 213% to $24.1 million compared to $7.7 million in the third quarter of 2021. The comparative increase in G&A expenses in 2022 is largely attributable to a $15 million increase in bad debt reserves, primarily associated with our decision to place a full reserve against all of the outstanding receivable balances under the Bud & Mary’s TTK solution project.,

Approximately 1.1 million in severance related charges as the company has begun to streamline operations in response to the current industry headwinds in a comparative 500,000 increase in quarterly stock-based compensation as a result of equity awards issued to employees during the third quarter of 2022.

Sales and marketing expenses totaled $2.2 million in the third quarter of 2022 compared to $890,000 in the third quarter of 2021. Consistent with prior quarters, the comparative increase in third quarter 2022 sales and marketing expenses is directly related to the company increasing the scale of its business while strategically focusing on investments in sales and marketing activities such as headcount trade shows, marketing programs, et cetera necessary to support our drive for top line revenue growth.

Research and development expenses in the third quarter of 2022 totaled $1.7 million compared to $827,000 in the third quarter of 2021. The increase in comparative quarterly research and development expense reflects the company’s continued development efforts focused upon improving and upgrading our Agrify Insights SaaS software as well as the hardware features and functionality of our vertical farming units.

Comparative third quarter 2022 increases in R&D expenses are related to the current quarter addition of extraction division R&D teams, third-party consulting, payroll and related expenses as well as material costs. The company as of September 30, 2022 is currently monitoring two separate contingent earnout consideration arrangements associated with the acquisitions of PurePressure and Lab Society. Each of the arrangements contains two consecutive 12-month earnout periods. The potential additional consideration that can be earned under each of the two earnouts is capped at $1.5 million per year under the PurePressure earnout arrangement and $1.75 million per year under the Lab Society earnout arrangement.

The company made initial estimates with respect to the probability of achievement of the additional consideration to be earned under each respective earnout period and recorded it as part of our initial purchase price accounting associated with each acquisition.

Operating expenses in the third quarter of 2022 also includes a $602,000 reduction in operating expenses, which is primarily attributable to the change in our fair value estimates of contingent consideration associated with the currently active PurePressure earnout.

During our periodic review of fair value estimates, we noted that PurePressure’s actual revenue performance related to its first earnout period trails our initially projected revenue estimates. Accordingly, we revised our estimated probabilities of earnout achievement which resulted in a reduction in the original estimated earnout achievement of approximately $602,000. This change in consideration as required by GAAP was recorded as a current period reduction to operating expenses. We will continue to evaluate on a routine periodic basis, future performance against our initial assumptions and estimates on a quarterly basis. Any identified changes to our original assumptions that generate a change in our initial fair value estimates of probable earnout achievement will result in either an increase or reduction to our future periodic operating expenses.

Moving on to other income and expenses. The company is reporting total other expense of $14.7 million in the third quarter of 2022, excuse me. This compares to other income of $30,000 in the year ago quarter. There are several items during the year-over-year change in other income as we try to break them down into digestible sections.

Starting with net interest expense. Net interest expense totaled $4 million during the third quarter of 2022. Our third quarter interest expense is comprised of both normal interest expense associated with the outstanding principal balance of our existing debt facility plus an incremental prepayment penalty of interest expense of $2.2 million which was incurred in connection with the modification of our debt facility in the third quarter of 2022.

Other income. The company is reporting $1.5 million of other income during the current quarter in connection with the finalization and true up of previously estimated acquisition related networking capital amounts. The finalization of the estimated amounts resulted in a favorable adjustment to the initial purchase price paid by the company at the close of our acquisitions. As we fully impaired our goodwill assets as of June 30, 2022, these adjustments cannot be recorded against the existing goodwill balance, which results in them being recorded as favorable other income item in our third quarter statement of operations.

We are reporting a loss on extinguishment of debt. As previously mentioned in August, 2022, the company entered into an agreement to restructure its March, 2022 debt facility with its institutional lender. The company reviewed the terms of the modification and determined that the modification resulted in an extinguishment of the existing debt arrangement and not a modification. The company recognized a loss on debt extinguishment of approximately $17.9 million during the third quarter of 2022. This loss was comprised of a write-off of unamortized warrant costs, unamortized issuance costs, default penalty charges, and incremental charges associated with the fair value of the modified warrants.

We are also reporting a change in the fair value of warrants. As part of the debt restructuring agreement, the company agreed to modify the strike price of the warrants issued under the original debt facility as well as to issue new warrants under the new facility. The company in its review of the accounting treatment to be applied to the new and existing warrants determine that the warrants qualified for treatment as a liability instrument as opposed to being treated as an equity instrument. The company recognized a favorable charge in its third quarter 2022 statement of operations in connection with the periodic fair market value – revaluation of the warrants totaling $5.7 million. It is important to note that the company will continue to perform a review of the changes in the fair value of the warrants on a periodic basis which will result in future gains and/or losses in its statement of operations.

A quick comment on income taxes. The company didn’t recognize any income tax expense or benefit in the third quarter of 2022 or 2021. This is solely the result of the company having a full valuation allowance against the carrying value of its deferred tax attributes. We consolidate the results of operations of less than wholly owned entities into our consolidated results of operations. Agrify-Valiant LLC, a joint venture limited liability company in which we are the 60% majority owner and Valiant-America LLC owns the remaining 40%.

The net income or loss in each of the presented quarterly periods ended September 30, 2022 and 2021 represents the portion of periodic income or loss attributable to the non-controlling parties.

Finally, the net results of the previously discussed changes in revenue, gross margin and operating expenses resulted in a reported net loss of $46.3 million or $17.33 per diluted share during the third quarter of 2022 compared to a loss of $9.8 million or $4.68 per diluted share in the year ago quarter.

It is also important to note that the company with stockholder approval completed a 1-for-10 reverse stock split on October 18, 2022. Accordingly, the company has retroactively adjusted all current period in historical equity and share based information included in our third quarter 2022 financial statements and disclosures to reflect this 1-for-10 reverse stock split.

Adjusted EBITDA amounted to a loss of $28.8 million during the third quarter of 2022 compared to an adjusted EBITDA loss of $5.6 million in the year ago quarter. Additional information regarding our use of non-GAAP measures including a reconciliation to the most comparable GAAP measures can be found in the press release we issued earlier this morning, which is also available on the Investor Relations section of our website at www.agrify.com.

Finally a few quick comments on some other financial items. We ended the third quarter of 2022 with the combined amount of cash, restricted cash and marketable securities of $12.5 million compared to a balance of $56.6 million as of December 31, 2021.

Subsequent to the end of the third quarter of 2022, the company began issuing shares of its common stock under a previously announced at the market equity program. As of November 7, 2022, the company has sold a total of 6,132,565 shares of common stock under the ATM program for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $15.6 million in net proceeds after deducting commissions of approximately $15.1 million.

As of November 7, 2022, the company had 34.4 million of remaining availability for future issuances of common stock under the ATM program. As of September 30, 2022, the company is in compliance with the financial debt covenants associated with its restructured $35 million senior security – senior secured promissory note.

That concludes the prepared financial comments, and with that I will not turn the call back to Raymond for final comments.

Raymond Chang

Thank you, Tim. I would now like to turn to our guidance for the remainder of fiscal year 2022. Since we are deferring the $5.3 million of Bud & Mary’s revenue for the reasons stated above, we are reducing our guidance down to $65 million to $70 million versus the original guidance of $70 million to $75 million. In other words, if it wasn’t for the 5.3 deferred revenue, we would have been on track to deliver our previously guided forecasts.

I would now like to open up the call to questions. Operator, please go ahead.

Question-and-Answer Session

Operator

Thank you. We will now be conducting a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Our first question is from Aaron Grey of Alliance Global Partners. Please go ahead.

Remy Smith

Hi, good morning. This is Remy Smith on for Aaron Grey. Thank you for the questions. You touched on this kind of a little bit in your opening remarks, but is there any kind of more market share, retail sales data in the markets where partners are selling products cultivated within VFUs in those legacy states? I just want to get a little bit more color on that for the data points to demonstrate the flowing to retail sales. Thank you.

Raymond Chang

Yes, so our customers in Nevada, WhiteCloud has continued to sell through their dispensaries. They had to do a restart because of the some licensing issue, but they’re basically coming back on track. And so far the flowers that they have been able to sell through the retail have been deemed as very high quality and they continue to produce – the yield continue to go up and we expect that once the resorts come to fruition, they will be able to again sell at a very high premium in the Nevada market.

Remy Smith

Great. And then my second question regarding the extraction business, you have a strong line of sight in terms of the pipeline, particularly as we were seeing a number of operators pull back on CapEx. And are there any other factors think about outside the macro might be impacting the extraction business such as competing products and pricing?

Raymond Chang

We still continue to see very strong pipeline as well as momentum behind our extraction business. As mentioned earlier the pipeline for our extraction business stands at over $40 plus million. And we’re seeing a very, very strong rebound in the fourth quarter in our extraction division. And as mentioned also in Q3 unfortunately because of the tight cash covenant and also some customer what do you call it delays on the completion of the facility construction roughly about $3 million of business was kind of pushed into Q4, which we expect to ship this quarter. So yes, so we’re continuing to see very strong momentum behind – positive momentum behind our extraction division, definitely a rebound from quarter three. And as also mentioned earlier we continue to innovate with new products at the launch of the PX10, it’s one, and we will be also introducing additional new products in the upcoming MJBiz as well.

Remy Smith

Great, thank you.

Operator

Our next question is from Eric Des Lauriers of Craig-Hallum. Please go ahead.

Eric Des Lauriers

Great. Thank you for taking my questions. I was wondering if you could comment a bit on the extraction businesses the overall sort of demand that you’re seeing for those products and then if the sort of – taking those extraction products and really implementing the control and visibility into those and essentially creating a similar like TTK type offering for extraction. Just wondering if that is still on the sort of near-term strategy list here and just overall comments about the extraction business would be great. Thank you.

Raymond Chang

Yes, Eric, we’re definitely seeing a rebound of the momentum like I said for quarter four. I think what’s happening now is yes obviously due to the macro market condition in quarter three there were some holdback on the spending, but I think we’re seeing a reversal of that trend even starting from October timeframe. And like I said, I think this quarter we’re seeing a very, very positive reversal of that trend. What is also actually very encouraging for us is that our parts and – parts sales and also e-commerce are recording probably some of the strongest numbers that we have seen. I think what’s happening now is probably some people are just kind of – instead of maybe making new purchases we’re trying to basically retrofit some of their existing products.

And so we’re seeing a very, very strong parts and e-commerce sales out of our extraction division. And we’re also seeing adoption of our new technology. As I mentioned, we launched PX10 the latest technology innovation on the hydrocarbon side and already we have three customers using this solution. And we’re also seeing very, very strong interests towards some of the other new product innovations that we’re introducing into the market. As to basically the consistency and quality issue that you mentioned absolutely that is something that we continue to work on. And in fact the RDP program that we are rolling out as of today actually gives customers the option to basically buy an equivalent solution beyond just cultivation.

So they could actually buy complementary extraction total turnkey solution that, for example, if they purchase 56 VFUs, then we would basically do some calculation with them. And depending on the type of products that they want to produce, we would then design an extraction lab that provides them with a complete solution, so that they could actually offer more products into the market. And I think that combination of cultivation and extraction are becoming extremely, extremely attractive. And in fact a lot of the RDP programs, the customers are actually adopting or subscribing to this additional optional upgrade to take on both the extraction as well as the cultivation solutions.

We are not yet ready to basically launch TTK around extraction yet. Most of the RDP programs that we’re selling right now is still basically based on basically just upfront cash sales. We still need to do a bit of work to be able to turn the existing extraction equipment to be able to control remotely through cloud. And once that is completed, then we would be able to offer the TTK program because as you know very much similar to kind of the VFUs. We want to be able to remotely control as well as monitor the performance of the extraction equipment before we offer the TTK program, and that’s something that we continue to work on.

Eric Des Lauriers

Thank you.

Operator

Our next question is from Anthony Vendetti of Maxim Group. Please go ahead.

Anthony Vendetti

Thanks. I just wanted to go over a couple of the numbers. So the qualify – did you say the qualified pipeline has about $31.1 million in cultivation and $45.9 million in extraction?

Raymond Chang

That’s correct, $31.1 million and $45.9 million.

Anthony Vendetti

Okay. And usually, or sometimes you give a backlog number I’m sure the signed contracts, what was the backlog number at the end of the third quarter?

Raymond Chang

Tim, can you – you have the most accurate number. Kim, can you provide that please?

Timothy Oakes

Yes, yes. Yes, Anthony, we actually did, I gave that number as part of my script. So the backlog number as reported in my script was 646,000 as of the end of the third quarter. Obviously, the majority of that being SaaS related fees and production base fees, and that amount of that backlog number that represents about 90% of the total backlog number.

Anthony Vendetti

646,000…

Timothy Oakes

646 million, yes, my bad. Sorry. I apologize, yes.

Anthony Vendetti

Yes. Yes, yes. Oh, okay. Yes. And typically just remind us, Tim, that’s over a 10 year period typically how that gets recognized.

Timothy Oakes

Yes. The SaaS and production fees are predominantly over a 10 year period based upon the initial TTK engagements. As we look at things like Raymond talked about the RDP program while those are point in time equipment sale, they also do come with some limited period SaaS and production fee revenue. So that would be on a shorter string or a shorter timeline, but the majority of that SaaS and production is spread over 10 years.

Anthony Vendetti

Okay. And then with the Bud & Mary’s lawsuit, can you talk about where that’s currently at? And I know you probably don’t have an exact timeline of how this is expected to roll out. These things could take sometimes years. But have you had any settlement talks with them? Maybe just give us an update on where you are with Bud & Mary’s.

Raymond Chang

Anthony, as much as I would love to, I don’t think we are allowed to basically get into the details while the legal is underway. But what I can tell you is that we are very, very confident that we will be able to recover 100% of basically everything that we invested into this project. And we have both the resources as well as the legal means to go after this. And as I mentioned earlier, also that the project does come with both the corporate as well as personal guarantee from David Morgan, the Founder and CEO of Bud & Mary’s. And the – while – unfortunately, while the depending lawsuit is still ongoing, I basically was advised that we’re not allowed to discuss too much of it, but it is moving in the right direction, and we have all the resources as well as the legal means to recover.

Anthony Vendetti

Okay. So, David Morgan, the Founder of Bud & Mary’s, so it’s not just the commercial assets, but his personal assets that were part of the agreement and you have the right in the contract to recover lost revenue or revenue that is due under that contract through Bud & Mary’s as well as his personal assets?

Raymond Chang

That is correct. So the corporate guarantees we have both the corporate as well as personal guarantees. On the corporate side, they own the dispensary license. They have a home delivery license as well as two multiple cultivation licenses and product manufacturing license. And as I mentioned earlier, this is actually guaranteed by not only corporate, but David Morgan, the Founder, CEO personally.

Anthony Vendetti

Okay. In terms of new business in terms of building a pipeline, how has this lawsuit impacted future business? Does this take – is it taking a little bit longer to close new business as maybe customers are wondering what the issues are or have you seen a change at this point?

Raymond Chang

So, Anthony, I think as we have kind of emphasized given that kind of change in the market condition we have decided to not invest further into the TTK project or future TTK projects at this moment. Obviously, the ones that we are committed to every single one of them, we have the resources to basically bring them to fruition, right? And that’s basically the three that I talked about earlier. We have resources dedicated for Bud & Mary’s and also we have other TTK projects such as Gold Leaf that we have allocated VFU equipment towards. So all those projects we will – we are fully committed to basically bringing to a fruition. Now, simultaneously, what is really picking up steam is the rapid deployment program, right? In the past, TTK, as you know, it’s a basically a large – long-term investment that requires substantial capital outlay from the company up front.

And given kind of the market condition today, I don’t believe that the market no longer has that sort of appetite. The RDP program is really what is selling out there. People can get started with $2 million to $3 million investment, and in fact, if they could get – started with even less capital, they could just basically purchase eight of our VFUs and then they would have sufficient biomass to maybe support one dispensary. So it really kind of gives the customers the flexibility to be able to scale over time, and also not having to wait 12 months, 15 months, large capital outlay to get projects going. So this rapid deployment program is really what’s picking up steam. And unlike the TTK program where it requires Agrify to put in all the capital up front and invests at our risk. We are basically selling, right, all the hardware with margin plus, there’s also recurring stats and production fees attached to it.

And I think this new model is really what’s resonating. And even with very little marketing, we actually, in fact, initially did not plan to really kind of sell this or market this until MJBiz, but as I mentioned earlier, we’re already seeing tremendous traction and with MJBiz coming up. I think, it’s just going to pick up even more steam. So it’s a pivot of our business model, which I think is the right thing to do given, the current market condition. And people see that as completely different from the old TTK model that basically what was – what we kind of focused on last year and first half of this year.

Anthony Vendetti

Okay. And then last question is Tim, you mentioned about some severance and – cost reductions, cash flow using the quarter from operating activities was $8.5 million. With the cash – with the cost reductions that are in place now, what is the new expected cash flow use? Tim, have you modeled what that would be or what you expect it to be range for the fourth quarter?

Timothy Oakes

Yes, that’s a good question, but I’m going to – we don’t give cash flow guidance, right? We’re not going to guide cash flow. We’re happy and pleased that cash flow from ops is only $8.5 million relative to what the historical track record in Q1 and Q2 were. But I will tell you, you have to think about the question you asked as it relates to, or in conjunction with the restructured debt agreement. The terms of that debt agreement states that the company is limited from a net cash spend point of view of $4 million in net cash flow spend per month and $8 million per quarter in aggregate. So that is sort of the guide rails that we have to operate on or under as we move forward through Q4 into 2023. So given that, I just think relationally to where we are right now and what the parameters are of that restructured debt agreement you would expect that cash flow from ops number to be either consistent where it was in Q3 or lower as we move through Q4.

Anthony Vendetti

Okay, thanks. I’ll hop back on the queue. Appreciate it.

Operator

Our next question is from Scott Fortune of ROTH Capital Partners. Please go ahead.

Unidentified Analyst

Hey, good morning. This is Nick on for Scott. Just looking for some color on your recent harvest metrics with the RDP set to roll out here. Just wondering if you’ve seen any improvements you want to call out on the yield or the potency side and just kind of how you’re looking at further improving the VFU product moving forward here in this environment? Thank you.

Raymond Chang

Yes, so and Nick, so basically the RDP program as I mentioned, we are just now taking orders. So they have actually not been shipped. We are expecting to ship some of the existing orders in the coming quarter. So we don’t not – we do not yet have the operating metrics for those RDP program just yet, but they’re using our traditional 3.6 VFUs. So I would say that you can expect to pretty much get the same sort of results from the 3.6. [ph] As I’ve also mentioned earlier the new 3.7 VFU development is now complete and we can actually begin to ship the 3.7 [ph] units in first quarter of next year. And we believe that you could expect to have even better yield and results from the new 3.7 VFUs, which we will also be featuring and showcasing at the upcoming MJBiz.

Unidentified Analyst

Okay. Thank you for that caller. And then just looking for an update on the status of your supply chain and whether or not you’ve seen those headwinds kind of begin to abate here. Just if you could unpack the changes you’ve seen within your supply chain and this environment, that would be helpful too. Thank you.

Raymond Chang

Yes, I think on the cultivation side, we have sufficient inventory to basically fulfill, our most immediate customer orders. So from that perspective, I think, supply chain is not going to necessarily affect our ability to ship these units. I think construction delays are still maybe happening, but we’re seeing that pressure subside or basically reducing. So, we do expect that on the cultivation front, supply chain is probably not going to be too big of an issue.

On the extraction front, yes, we do still kind of work with our vendor suppliers. Obviously, in Q3 probably not so much of the supply chain issue, but obviously because of the cash spent covenant. we weren’t able to fulfill some of that orders. But I think that is something that we still have to qualify during quarter four. But I think it seems like both internally and externally supply chain pressure is probably getting resolved. But it’s not completely, but we definitely see some improvements around that.

Unidentified Analyst

Great. That’s it for me. I appreciate the color.

Operator

We have reached the end of the question-and-answer session. I would now like to turn the call back over to Raymond Chang for any closing comments. Please go ahead, sir.

Raymond Chang

Thank you everyone for joining the call today and look forward to speaking in our next quarter call. Again, appreciate and look forward to having – giving everybody an update as we continue to focus on our execution and delivery results. Thank you.

Operator

That concludes today’s conference. Thank you for joining us. You may now disconnect your lines.