# Headset

> Headset is a Seattle business-intelligence company that turns permissioned dispensary point-of-sale data into market forecasts, retail dashboards, inventory signals and data feeds for cannabis brands, retailers, distributors and analysts. Its advantage is the unglamorous plumbing: integrating with many retail systems, normalizing inconsistent product names and converting receipt-level activity into a common market language.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** Seattle, United States
- **Founders:** Cy Scott (CEO & Co-founder), Scott Vickers (CTO & Co-founder), Brian Wansolich (CDO & Co-founder)
- **Team size:** Approximately 40-50 employees; the supplied record lists 40, while public company directories range from 44 to the 51-200 LinkedIn band.
- **Products:** Headset Retailer, Headset Insights, Headset Bridge, Headset Vault, Bridge Signal / E-commerce Intelligence
- **Notable:** Founded by the same three entrepreneurs who created Leafly., Reported processing more than $50 billion in cannabis transactions by November 2023., Built a data cooperative spanning more than 3,500 retail partners in the United States and Canada.

## Products & services

- **Headset Retailer** — Business-intelligence dashboards for dispensaries covering sales, inventory, customers, staff and operations from connected POS data.
- **Headset Insights** — Market-intelligence and competitive-analysis software with product-level forecasts, pricing, demographics and brand performance across legal markets.
- **Headset Bridge** — Permissioned retailer-to-vendor data sharing for sell-through visibility, replenishment and vendor-managed inventory.
- **Headset Vault** — Clean sales, inventory and market datasets delivered into Snowflake and compatible analytics tools without a customer-built ETL pipeline.
- **Bridge Signal / E-commerce Intelligence** — Menu-sourced monitoring of prices, promotions, assortment, distribution gaps and stock status, combined with POS signals where available.
- **Ask Headset** — A natural-language assistant for querying Headset Insights data about sales, categories, brands, prices and markets.
- **Bridge Nexus** — An expanded intelligence and ordering layer combining POS and e-commerce data, retailer velocity scoring, gap analysis and AI-assisted purchase orders.

## Achievements

- Founded by the same three entrepreneurs who created Leafly.
- Reported processing more than $50 billion in cannabis transactions by November 2023.
- Built a data cooperative spanning more than 3,500 retail partners in the United States and Canada.
- Kiva Sales & Service reported saving about 80 labor hours per week after adding Vault data to its existing workflow.
- mFused reported a 20% average sales lift across 300+ stores in its Headset-powered vendor-managed inventory program.
- Claybourne and Kind Delivery reported a 4.41x increase in Claybourne-specific sales in the first month of their Bridge connection.
- Expanded from descriptive dashboards into Snowflake data delivery, natural-language analysis and order automation.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Published its account of becoming AI-native and documented a read-only MCP server for Bridge workflows.
- **2026-06** — Expanded Ask Headset with brand-loyalty and cross-shopping analysis.
- **2026-04** — Introduced Competitive Pulse, a monthly retailer benchmarking report with peer percentiles and modeled revenue scenarios.
- **2026-03** — Announced a Distru partnership to connect demand insights with automated ordering and fulfillment.
- **2026-02** — Published an mFused Bridge case study reporting a 20% average sales lift across 300+ stores.
- **2025-08** — Published a Grön case study focused on inventory management and retailer relationships.

## Links

- Website: https://www.headset.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/headset/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/headset_io
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq1pQ9PGqH4
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/headset_io/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/headset.io/

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Last updated: 2026-08-21