The cannabis industry is entering a new phase, one defined by intelligent automation, connected data, and tools that respond to customer behavior in real time. Beginning January 2026, AIQ is launching two major advancements that elevate how operators plan, execute, and optimize their growth: AIQ Flows and AI Analytics.
Together, these products create the foundation of the AIQ Intelligence Layer, threading AI into every operational decision to sharpen targeting, accelerate execution, and drive measurable performance for retailers and brands.
Today, operators spend hours digging through spreadsheets, toggling across systems, and piecing together insights. AI Analytics removes that friction completely.
As outlined on page 3 of the zine, AI Analytics is designed to give operators instant, natural-language insights, the ability to type or even speak a question and receive actionable answers in seconds.
Natural-language insights: Ask questions like “Which SKUs drove the highest repeat purchase last month?” and get a clear, ready-to-use answer. No reporting builds, no filtering, no manual work.
A unified data foundation: POS, ecommerce, loyalty, and marketing performance all converge into one intelligent layer, eliminating data fragmentation and giving teams a single source of truth.
Decision-ready analysis: Trends, anomalies, and opportunities surface automatically. Operators can finally understand not just what happened, but why, and act with confidence.
This represents a shift from “reporting tools” to real business intelligence, meeting a need long outlined by operators in the AIQ ecosystem: deeper visibility, faster insights, and the ability to pivot without heavy analytics labor.
Traditional marketing requires planning, scheduling, and repeating. But customer behavior doesn’t follow a calendar, it unfolds in real time. Flows introduces event-driven automation, real-time segmentation, and AI-powered logic that determines what should happen next in a customer journey.
1. Event-driven triggers that respond instantly: A behavior, like signing up for loyalty, making a purchase, and abandoning a cart, automatically launches the next step. No scheduling required.
2. Real-time segmentation that adapts step-by-step:If a customer makes a purchase, their journey follows one path. If they don’t, Flows can redirect them automatically with contextualized messaging or offers.
3. Unified logic across marketing, loyalty, and data: Every node—messages, triggers, discounts, conditions—connects to the same data foundation, ensuring accurate attribution and consistent personalization.
4. AI splits: Automation that reacts to the world: Flows can adjust based on real-world conditions such as weather, local sports outcomes, inventory levels, or store traffic.
Imagine:
The result is an automated system that feels alive. Messaging that becomes timely, personalized, and dynamically responsive with no extra lift from your team.
The data is clear: operators are being asked to do more, with fewer resources, and under tighter performance expectations. The industry’s most successful teams are those that operate with precision, putting the right message in front of the right customer at the right time, and being able to measure it.
AIQ Flows and AI Analytics stand at this intersection of efficiency and intelligence:
These releases mark a major milestone for the AIQ platform and our commitment to building tools that let operators work smarter, scale faster, and stay ahead of market shifts.
Flows (beta) and AI Analytics begin rolling out January 2026 as part of a broader roadmap to deepen intelligence across the entire ecosystem—including segmentation, product recommendations, co-marketing, ecommerce, and more.
This is only the beginning of what AI-powered cannabis retail can look like.
