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CNBS

cnbs.io

The all-in-one operating system for licensed cannabis dispensaries

CNBS replaces the patchwork of POS, inventory, METRC compliance, and customer tools with one cannabis-native platform — built so a dispensary never has to piece its stack together.

Status
Built — Seeking partner
Category
Commerce and systems
Compliance
METRC-native
Open to
70% partnership / buy-out

CNBS is an all-in-one operating system for licensed cannabis dispensaries — point of sale, inventory, METRC compliance, and customer management in a single cannabis-native platform.

It is built deliberately to remove the piece-meal stack most operators run today, where a generic retail POS, a separate compliance portal, a spreadsheet inventory system, and a bolt-on loyalty product never quite agree. CNBS owns all of those workflows in one product, on a modern web stack that runs on any device behind the counter and from anywhere back-of-house.

Cannabis retail today runs on piece-meal stacks. Operators are forced to assemble their own technology out of tools that were never designed for the category:

  • Generic retail POS systems do not understand THC potency, package weights, daily customer purchase limits, or per-state visit caps.
  • Compliance tracking (METRC / BioTrack / state seed-to-sale systems) lives in a separate portal that has to be reconciled by hand.
  • Inventory systems lose the link between the physical package, the manifest, the lab result, and the SKU on the menu.
  • Customer data is locked in loyalty add-ons that cannot talk back to the POS.

The cost shows up as time at the register, audit risk at the end of the month, and missed revenue from broken loyalty and discount flows.

One platform, not five. CNBS owns the register, the inventory, the customer record, and the compliance hand-off from the same product.

Point of sale. A dispensary-grade register with age verification, ID scanning, daily purchase limit enforcement, discount engines, tax handling, and split-tender checkout.

Inventory & receiving. Per-package inventory tied to METRC tags, lab results, and SKUs. Receiving from a manifest, transfers, adjustments, audits, and waste are all first-class actions, not afterthoughts.

Compliance built in. METRC sales, returns, and inventory adjustments are written from the same flow that runs the register — no separate reconciliation step at end of day.

Customer management. Customer profiles include compliance history, purchase limits, loyalty balances, and notes. The same customer record drives marketing exports and loyalty redemption at the register.

Operator console. Reporting on revenue, top SKUs, budtender performance, basket size, and waste — designed to be the daily dashboard a general manager actually opens.

Cannabis retail in the United States is a regulated, ~$30B+ category that runs almost entirely on adapted general-purpose software. State-mandated seed-to-sale reporting (METRC and equivalents) is the gating constraint on every transaction, every receiving event, and every transfer — yet the systems that talk to it were largely bolted onto retail tools designed for other categories.

A cannabis-native, all-in-one stack that owns the register, the inventory, the customer record, and the compliance hand-off in one workflow removes the largest operational drag and audit risk most dispensaries face today.

For a buyer already in cannabis distribution, CNBS is a multiples-expansion lever. Owning the dispensary-side operating layer extends the revenue surface from wholesale-of-goods to wholesale-of-goods plus recurring software and operations across the same accounts. The combined entity prices closer to a software platform than a pure operator — which materially expands the exit multiple on the buyer's existing distribution footprint.

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CNBS is open to a controlling-stake partnership (target 70%) or an outright acquisition by the right operator. The strongest fit is a cannabis distribution business that wants to own the dispensary-side operating layer downstream of the supply it already moves.

Reach out to discuss a 70% partnership, full buy-out, or platform pilots inside dispensaries you own or supply.

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