About Cannabud.ai

We didn’t start in cannabis.

We started in hackathons. Weekends in rooms with bad Wi-Fi, building something in 48 hours for a problem we’d heard about on Friday. Over three years we won six of them across Europe. It taught us the one rule we still work by: talk to the person with the problem before you write a line of code.

Then André got close to a real cannabis operation. He found people writing messed up numbers in batch records no one could understand. He saw top scales that never got to be integrated. He saw a room full of binders of information that will never meet a dashboard.

The software they had was built for something else. An ERP bent into shape. A US tool that had never heard of EU-GMP.

So we built what they needed. From scratch, in Lisbon.

Our first customers didn’t come from a sales funnel. They came from an after-party in Barcelona. We still think that says a lot about this industry. People buy from people they’ve met.

Today Cannabud.ai is the most-used cannabis compliance platform in Portugal and runs operations in five countries. Still bootstrapped. Still six people. Still going up against companies five to twenty times our size.