Relaxed

Who is budboard?

We’ve partnered with the cool dudes over at budboard to create these formulas. They collect lab data from over 5,000 different products and deliver that information to over 200,000 medical marijuana patients every month.

Budboard strongly believes that people should know as much information about these cannabis products so that patients can make the best purchasing decisions. After all, you want the product to do what it’s advertised to do, right?

The Algorithm

Machine learning is all about pattern recognition. If you feed it enough accurate data, you’ll start to see trends emerge.

If we compile enough data then we can start to find patterns in the products ingredients. This allows us to isolate and utilize the components that most often produce the desired effects. As we get more data, the formula becomes more accurate. Currently we are using more than a million data points (and growing!) to craft these AI Terp Effect blends.

Trust but verify.

Now even though we have a high-degree of certainty based off the algorithm, we always need to verify that we’re making accurate predictions.

The algorithm predicts that this formula of terpenes will produce this specific effect. So we take that prediction and compare it against hundreds of different white-papers to “sanity check” the results. If the algorithm’s predictions match the scientific literature, we can reasonably assume that the data is valid.

The Abstrax touch.

Abstrax receives the formula and gets to work turning it into reality. We craft each blend using our world-class isolated terpenes so that the finished result is consistent and compliant around the world.

Our chemists take each raw formula and optimize it to be as flavor & aroma neutral as possible so that it won’t interfere with the end product’s taste and smell. We then run that optimized formula back through the algorithm to ensure that it will deliver the intended results. If there’s any effect, flavor, or aroma drift then we adjust and do it all over again.

You can be assured that each AI Terp Effect blend has been thoroughly tested and retested for maximized effects and flavor compatibility.

Dr. Avery Gilbert

We reached out to Dr. Avery Gilbert who’s a legend in sensory quantification. For the last three decades, he has pioneered a system called Mood Descriptor Profiling which helps to characterize the mood impressions of different scents. Ever been to the store and seen those citrus shampoos that wake you up in the morning? He’s the guy that started all of that.

"Our ultimate goal with this platform is to create a science-backed methodology for creating predictable sensorial experiences using terpenes. This will be the first time in history brands can literally dial in the exact effects they are looking for using botanically-derived ingredients that both smell and taste amazing.” - Dr. Avery Gilbert.

Dr. Gilbert conducted a quantitative sensory research study utilizing our five AI Terp Effects with a random assortment of participants. Each participant is given an unlabeled blend and is asked to categorize their mood impressions of it using an 11-point classification system. This is our real-world test to confirm that each AI Terp Effect does exactly what it’s intended to do.