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ChatGPT
The most widely used AI assistant, strong at customer-facing writing and quick visuals.
What it does
A general AI assistant for writing, answering questions, and working with files you upload. It also creates images inside a normal chat.
How it helps a cannabis business
- Write customer-facing content and answer the questions shoppers ask most
- Build standard operating procedures for the sales floor or the grow
- Draft search-friendly copy for your website and menu
- Turn a process like seed to sale into an infographic, then into a blog post
One thing to watch
OpenAI's usage policies bar help with illicit goods, and cannabis is still federally illegal. Use it for business work and expect it to decline some product sales copy.
Prompts to use with ChatGPT
- The cannabis wholesale negotiation strategistPrep for a dispensary buyer, a chain's category manager, a distributor, or a supply contract with a plan that protects your margins.
- 10-slide pitch outline for dispensary buyersGet a data-driven outline for pitching your brand to a dispensary buyer or chain, then turn it into a finished deck with Gamma.
- Elite performance coach and life strategistA guided diagnostic and 90-day plan built for the grueling reality of running a cannabis business.
- First principles thinking for a stuck problemStrip a problem down to what is actually true and rebuild the answer, instead of copying what every other shop does.
- Inversion: list every way this could failCharlie Munger's tool: find every realistic way an initiative dies, then turn each into a preventive action.
- The 5 Whys: find the real root causeToyota's method for getting past the symptom to something structural you can actually fix.
- Second-order thinking before a big decisionMap what happens now, what that triggers, and what shows up 6 to 12 months later, on both the yes and no paths.
- Regret minimization for a career or business forkThe framework Jeff Bezos used to leave Wall Street, applied to selling, expanding, adding a license, or starting something new.
- Opportunity cost: what are you really giving up?Make the invisible tradeoff visible before you commit cash, canopy, shelf space, or your team's time.
- Pre-mortem: assume the launch failedGary Klein's method: imagine it's six months later and the project died, then fix every cause before launch.
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