Reference
Where our guides and market data come from
SeedLink publishes practical guides for cannabis cultivators and dispensary buyers, supported by public references and reviewed market observations. We distinguish measured facts from advice and examples, and give every market snapshot its source and date. This page was last revised on .
Who publishes this
SeedLink is wholesale cannabis menu software for licensed cultivators, built on METRC: it turns a cultivator’s METRC inventory into a live wholesale menu with one private link per dispensary and shows which buyer opened it, what they viewed and what went into the cart. From an order it creates the METRC packages, the transfer template and the emailed invoice; the cultivator dispatches in METRC Connect. Ordering from a cultivator’s private link needs no account: the link is the identity. Live in Rhode Island; Massachusetts and other METRC states by request.
- Cannabis cultivators selling wholesale: send one live menu link per dispensary, see who opened it and what they looked at, and turn an order into METRC packages and an invoice.
- Dispensary buyers: open a cultivator’s private menu link, see what is available and order from it without an account; SeedLink’s buying guides and Rhode Island market reports are free to read.
SeedLink at www.seedlink.net is the cannabis wholesale menu company. It is not the SeedLink seismic data protocol, the seedlink.app startup marketplace or the earlier seed-genetics site that once used this domain.
Questions, access requests and corrections go to info@seedlink.net. Every section of this page has a stable link, such as #how-to-cite.
Who the guides are for
SeedLink gives cultivators a live wholesale menu connected to METRC and helps them understand buyer interest. Our guides address the decisions around that work: presenting products clearly, comparing an offer, preparing an order and understanding a market. They do not publish the internal methods used to build SeedLink.
What we publish
| Family | Source | How a page changes |
|---|---|---|
| Buying guides | Public references and editorial guidance for dispensary buyers. Worked examples are labeled as examples. | Reviewed when the guidance or its sources change. |
| Selling guides | Public references and practical guidance on wholesale menus, product information and buyer communication. | Reviewed when the guidance or its sources change. |
| Market guides | Reviewed, published WeedShelf metrics with their observation dates, scope and source. | A historical snapshot stays tied to its stated date. A later observation is identified separately. |
| Brand profiles | One dated WeedShelf scan: the monitored stores listing each brand with at least ten active products, its categories, published ranks and size labels. | Each edition is frozen to its scan. A later scan is a new edition with its own date. |
| Dispensary profiles | One dated WeedShelf scan: each monitored store’s category mix against the published median and the brands it lists. | Each edition is frozen to its scan. A later scan is a new edition with its own date. |
Our product taxonomy explains the categories used in wholesale menus. Our software comparisons distinguish SeedLink’s capabilities from what other providers describe in their own public materials.
Measured facts, advice and examples
- A market finding starts with a reviewed WeedShelf publication. SeedLink quotes the published metric with its date and coverage, rather than treating a private customer record as a market observation.
- A factual explanation cites its supporting public reference. A recommendation is presented as editorial guidance, not as a measured result or a promise of sales.
- A worked example is labeled as illustrative. Its quantities or prices explain a calculation; they are not a customer’s transaction or a market benchmark.
- A page distinguishes the date of its evidence from the date its wording was revised. Revising a guide does not make an older market snapshot current.
How to read a market snapshot
- The date and coverage are part of the finding. A count describes the stores, products and period the source actually covers. It does not automatically describe every licensed business in a state.
- A menu listing is not a sale. Listed products describe observed assortment. They do not establish units sold, revenue, demand or a store’s complete physical inventory.
- Retail and wholesale are different. A public retail menu price is not a cultivator’s wholesale price, and neither establishes a margin without the relevant costs and terms.
- Missing data stays missing. An unobserved store or an unavailable value is not counted as zero. A page states the limits that matter to its conclusion.
- A snapshot is historical. It records the source as of the date shown. It is not a live inventory feed, and opening it today does not refresh its measurements.
The Rhode Island dispensary product mix guide applies these limits to a dated WeedShelf snapshot. Its figures describe observed product listings, not market sales.
SeedLink reports and category rankings
SeedLink is the publisher and editorial source for these guides. WeedShelf supplies the underlying public-menu evidence. Cite the SeedLink guide URL with its date and coverage; the source notes preserve the origin of each figure.
Our Rhode Island brand listing quotes the producer’s category ranks by active products listed on monitored menus. It preserves ties and the category’s observed field size. A product listed under the same name at several stores counts once; stores that name one product differently can add records. Rank does not measure sales, revenue, product quality or customer preference, and brands are not identified as SeedLink customers.
Since October 15, 2026, brand profiles and dispensary profiles also show which monitored stores list each brand, with listing counts, and the category reports quote WeedShelf’s published share of each category’s products for the leading brands. A brand gets a profile only with at least ten active products, so each page answers a distinct question. Sales and movement rates, prices, individual inventory and private reports stay outside the publication, and no page states whether a brand or store uses SeedLink.
A source publication captured from a public web page can have an unknown scan date. Those figures are labeled Captured, with the capture date and the missing source clock stated, rather than presented as a same-day scan. They are never spliced into a historical quarter just because that quarter appears in the source page’s title.
Monthly editions and historical backfills
Our monthly archive starts with the month WeedShelf launched its public blog. Historical editions use the producer’s monthly event rows. New listings, removals, returns and price changes are recorded menu events, not counts of unique products or completed sales. An item can generate repeated events.
Each historical report names its UTC event period and the later date SeedLink captured the published totals. The SeedLink publication date is the date the report was first published here; it is not backdated to the event month. A closed calendar month does not establish complete scanning. The public source does not give monthly store counts or scan completeness, so changes in recorded activity cannot establish market growth or demand.
An early-month edition remains labeled as a partial capture. Current brand ranks, prices and concentration figures are never assigned to earlier months. We preserve a reviewed source record for each edition rather than silently replacing older figures with a live widget.
What SeedLink does not publish
Access to a record does not make it public guide material. The following stays outside this corpus.
- Private customer records. A cultivator’s METRC inventory, wholesale prices, order history and private menus are not source material for these public guides.
- Buyer engagement data. Who opened which menu, what they viewed and what they ordered is the product, and it is private to the cultivator it belongs to.
- Internal implementation details. SeedLink’s integration recipes, reconciliation rules, automation logic, incident records and debugging procedures remain internal.
- Customer operating benchmarks. A small sample of SeedLink customers does not establish an industry norm. Their individual activity is not repackaged as a public market statistic.
- Private observations disguised as anonymous examples. Removing a company name does not turn its transaction or operational incident into an illustrative example. Examples are written for explanation, not copied from private records.
How to cite a page
SeedLink, “<page title>”, observed <date>, revised <date>, https://www.seedlink.net/<path>
Cite SeedLink and the canonical page URL with the revised date; with a market figure, keep its observation or capture date, coverage and the named underlying source.
Cite SeedLink’s canonical guide URL and retain the original evidence source, date and coverage with a market figure. When the scan date is unknown, say when the publication was captured instead. For editorial guidance, cite the page and its revised date; do not describe it as an observed outcome. Each guide links a machine-readable copy with the same published facts, and the guide collection is available at /guides/data.json.
Corrections
If a fact, source or calculation is wrong, write to info@seedlink.net with the page and supporting evidence. A correction updates the revised date and explains the change. Historical figures retain their original observation date; correcting an error or adding a later snapshot does not make the earlier period live.