The Math the Winning Shop Is Doing
Fourteen formulas separating the shop that's fine from the one that's quietly underwater — and, now that the C.O.D. list lives in METRC, the arithmetic the state enforces for you.
JUN 2026read →Cannabis Has a Plant Data Problem
The industry runs on numbers nobody has verified. What the METRC transition is quietly revealing about the gap between what's reported and what's real.
MAY 2026read →Meet Your Newest Coworker
What happens when a licensed cannabis operation puts an AI to work on the systems everyone else does by hand.
APR 2026read →Why The Cyph Exists
Cannabis coverage is either lifestyle content or press releases. This is the third thing.
The Math The Winning Shop is Doing
Meet Your Newest Coworker
Cannabis operations track everything: plants, batches, packages, and waste. But most facilities still struggle to turn those records into real operational intelligence. New systems like Claude could change that.
Cannabis Has a Plant Data Problem
Across agriculture, artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming the dominant conversation.
Crop modeling.
Yield prediction.
Automated disease detection.
The industry narrative suggests that farms are entering an era of algorithmic decision-making.
But a recent analysis published by Unite.AI highlights a different constraint.
Why The Cyph Exists
The cannabis industry is entering a strange phase. The headlines suggest progress. New markets open. Capital flows in waves. Companies promise innovation. But beneath the surface, the machinery of the industry remains opaque.