Google Gemini

How it helps a cannabis business

• Packaging concepts, social media content, and event graphics with no design skills, to refine with a designer and your compliance lead
• Store and lifestyle imagery from a text description
• Short video clips from a description or an image, on a paid plan

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Prompts to use with Google Gemini

• 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.
• 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.
• Collage-style social creative from one product photoTurn a plain package shot into a styled, share-worthy visual for social posts and your website.