We’ve been here the whole time.
Independent since 2015. METRC-integrated since 2018. Built through years of real dispensary operations rather than venture-capital theory.
Portal42 is founded.
Independent from the start. No venture capital, no exit plan.
Legal dispensaries defined.
Michigan opens state licensing for provisioning centers, the law’s word for a dispensary. For the first time there is a clear line between a licensed store and everyone else.
METRC integration begins.
Before most platforms treated compliance as anything other than a checkbox.
COVID, and a pivot on a dime.
Our stores switched to pickup the day they had to. The ordering system was already built and running, so there was nothing to wait for.
We learned what actually happens at a counter.
Not what a product manager imagines happens at a counter.
Independent, experienced, and building hard.
Still independent. Still listening. Still building.
Everyone who picks up the phone.
A decade of relationships is not a company value. It is a list of names.
Courtney
Proud ongoing donator of blood, sweat, tears, shoulders and encouragement.
Quentin
Started Portal42 in 2015 and has been in dispensaries ever since.
Becca
Turns what stores actually ask for into what gets built.
Nick
Built much of what Portal runs on, and still knows where everything is.
Ian
Finds it before your store does.
Alan
Keeps the scanners, printers and scales talking to Portal.
Partners, not account numbers.
Portal42 started in Detroit in 2015 with a simple goal: build a cannabis POS around the people actually running dispensaries. We get to know our stores and hear firsthand when something isn’t working. We’re a small team, so those conversations shape what we improve. Our partners know who they’re talking to, and we’re here to help them grow.