The positions must be created within a reasonable time and be shown to exist and be maintained when the conditions are examined, with Form I-829 generally filed in the ninety days before the second anniversary of obtaining conditional residence. Hiring left until the final months is the most common cause of difficulty.
Work backwards from the second anniversary, not forwards from opening day
The two-year conditional period is short for a business that has to be built, staffed and sustained, and a distillery adds a maturation lag between spending and revenue. Bettina should therefore plot the hiring schedule against the anniversary date from the outset, so that positions are filled early enough to be genuinely maintained rather than assembled just before the filing. Capital must remain invested and at risk throughout, and jobs that appear briefly and then disappear invite exactly the scrutiny the timetable exists to avoid.
Around that spine sit other dates worth mapping: the qualifying amount in force on the intended filing date, any child approaching twenty-one, and the availability of an immigrant visa where the family will be applying from outside the country. Approval of the petition is not by itself residence, and the steps after it have their own waiting periods.