Short Point Five™ LLC
The smartest way to learn cannabis.
The dispensary counter is a strange place. The person on your side of the glass is making a real decision about their body. The person on the other side has thirty seconds and a sales target. Terpenology™ is what would happen if you took those thirty seconds and stretched them out, with better information, on your own time, before you ever walk in.
It started as a personal tool. A patient in my family was tired of guessing. We were tired of strain names that meant nothing, terpene profiles that meant something but only to people who already knew, and product packaging that felt designed for anyone except the person actually using it. So I built the thing I wished existed. Then I kept building it.
Medical patients, primarily. People managing pain, anxiety, sleep, nausea, neuropathy, inflammation, or any of the conditions cannabis can sometimes help with. People who want to walk into a dispensary already knowing what to ask for, and walk out confident in what they bought.
It is also for the curious and the careful. Wellness-focused users who want to understand what they are putting in their body. Caregivers helping a parent or partner. Anyone who has ever read a strain name like "Stargazer Haze" and thought, what does that actually mean for me.
When you scan a product, Terpenology™ gives it a Fit score from one to ten. That number means one thing: how well the terpene chemistry measured on the product lines up with what you told us you are managing. It is not a clinical prediction, and it is not a promise that a strain will work for you. It is an honest read of chemistry against intention, weighted by how much we actually know.
That last part matters, so we show it. Under every score is a line telling you how much it is based on. A product with a full terpene panel earns a confident read. A label that prints no terpene numbers cannot be personalized, so the score stays low and says so plainly, instead of inventing confidence it has not earned. We would rather tell you we do not know than guess and be wrong about your body.
We are honest about the science itself, too. Most of what is known about individual terpenes comes from early research, often in animal studies, and the strongest evidence for cannabis and a given condition usually comes from cannabinoids like THC and CBD rather than from terpenes alone. So we choose words that match the evidence. “Research has shown” means there are human studies. “Early research suggests” means the work is promising but young. “People commonly report” means it is lived experience, not a trial. We never dress one up as the other.
In practice, most products land somewhere in the middle for most people, a genuinely strong match still earns a high score, and a profile that works against what you are managing gets pulled down rather than quietly ignored. The number is built to mean something. As the community grows, it will also begin to reflect what people managing the same conditions have reported actually helped them, which is a kind of evidence no journal can give us.
Hi, I’m Ross. I work at the intersection of technology, education, and community. I have spent years building tools and experiences for people who deserve thoughtful design and refused to settle for anything less. Terpenology pulls on all of that.
I built this with patients in mind because patients in my own life needed it. I believe healing of the body and healing of the soul belong in the same conversation. Tools like this sit somewhere in the middle. The plant has been in conversation with human beings for thousands of years. We are just trying to be honest about what it actually does, and trust people to make good decisions when they have good information.
If you have feedback, a story, or a strain you want me to look at, I would love to hear it. Email hello@shortpointfive.com and a real human will read it.
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