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Issue 001 · Flower Expo Illinois 2026
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AI and technology for cannabis retail: tools and workflows buyers can actually use.

Feature · AI buyer workflows · MenuGuard

5 Prompts Every Cannabis Buyer Should Save

Real prompts. Real workflows. Built for cannabis buyers.

Most cannabis buyers are still doing competitive research manually. Opening menus one by one. Searching vendor catalogs. Checking pricing changes. Trying to remember what changed since last week.

The goal isn’t to let AI make the buying decision for you. The goal is to get to the useful information faster, so you can spend more time actually evaluating the business.

Built for: Purchasing · Merchandising · Category Management · Retail Operations

Guide slide: Prompt 01, Competitor Menu Audit
01Prompt · Competitive intelligence

Competitor Menu Audit

The point isn’t to copy your competition. It’s to understand the market you’re buying into.

Use this when you need a fast read on a competing menu.

Decision use

Compare pricing, discounts, category depth, and assortment gaps before making pricing or purchasing decisions.

Copy / paste prompt
Crawl this dispensary menu and extract every available product with brand, product name, category, subtype, size, regular price, sale price, discount percentage, availability, and product URL. Normalize sizes and categories. Flag anything that appears duplicated, miscategorized, unusually discounted, or priced materially above or below similar products.
Guide slide: Prompt 02, New SKU Discovery
02Prompt · Discovery

New SKU Discovery

One of the easiest ways to miss an opportunity is assuming you already know a vendor’s full lineup.

Use this when you want to find products you do not currently carry.

Decision use

See what a vendor or competitor has that you may want to test, replace, or review.

Copy / paste prompt
Crawl this vendor catalog and extract all currently listed products. Organize by brand, category, product name, size, format, and strain or flavor where available. Preserve exact product naming and do not invent missing information.
Guide slide: Prompt 03, Vendor Catalog Audit
03Prompt · Vendor prep

Vendor Catalog Audit

You don’t need to wait for the pitch deck to understand the opportunity.

Use this before assortment reviews and vendor meetings.

Decision use

Get a clean picture of a brand’s current lineup, formats, and new-release opportunities.

Copy / paste prompt
Map and crawl this cannabis brand website. Build a complete current assortment including product families, formats, sizes, strains, flavors, hardware types, and any new-release or limited-release products. Separate confirmed facts from marketing language.
Guide slide: Prompt 04, Price Change Monitor
04Prompt · Pricing

Price Change Monitor

You don’t need more alerts. You need better ones.

Use this to track meaningful competitor pricing changes automatically.

Decision use

Stay on top of price moves, discounts, and availability changes without checking menus manually.

Copy / paste prompt
Monitor this menu for changes to regular price, sale price, discount percentage, availability, or promotional language. Ignore cosmetic page changes. Alert only when a commercially meaningful change occurs and include the exact product and before / after values.
Guide slide: Prompt 05, Menu QA
05Prompt · Menu health

Menu QA

Catch the issue before the customer does.

Use this to catch customer-facing ecommerce issues.

Decision use

Find duplicate products, missing prices, broken links, and other menu problems before they hurt the shopper experience.

Copy / paste prompt
Crawl this ecommerce menu and audit it for customer-facing errors. Look for duplicate products, missing prices, conflicting prices, broken links, empty categories, strange product names, missing images, inconsistent sizes, products appearing in multiple categories, and items marked unavailable that still appear purchasable.

The buyer workflow

Method

  1. 01

    Collect

    Crawl, monitor, or scan to gather the external facts.

  2. 02

    Normalize

    Clean names, sizes, categories, pricing, and availability.

  3. 03

    Compare

    Bring in your catalog, sales, inventory, POs, margin, and age.

  4. 04

    Decide

    You evaluate the tradeoffs and make the purchasing decision.

  5. 05

    Monitor

    Keep watching the parts of the market that can change your next move.

Buyer rule: Facts first. Assumptions labeled. Missing data stays missing.

Get all 12 prompts: the Buyer’s AI Prompt Guide