KERNW Akerna Corporation

Akerna (Nasdaq: KERN), a global regulatory compliance technology company in the cannabis space, is releasing a new eBook COVID-19 & Cannabis to help the cannabis industry, an essential business, thrive during uncertain times. The eBook presents business intelligence and insights from Platform Insights, the industry’s largest, and most statistically-relevant business intelligence solution. Platform Insights is available through MJ Platform, the signature solution from MJ Freeway, an Akerna Company.

Read the eBook: COVID-19 & Cannabis

During these uncertain times, business leaders have an opportunity to access a unique resource that shares how business intelligence and technology can help the cannabis industry thrive using a data-driven approach to:

1. Inventory Management: Know what you have on hand, know what you can promote, and know where things are limited.
2. Run Rates: Know what your sales velocity is and get a handle on daily run rates, trends, and spikes.
3. Ordering: Know what to order, not just based on demand, but on historical sales and what’s hot during this time of high demand.

Also, with Platform Insights operators, investors, and regulators can access the industry’s largest, and most statistically-relevant intelligence to drive data-driven business decisions.

Platform Insights provides:

• The greatest statistical relevance across countries
• Normalized data (not farmed from various disparate POS platforms)
• Full cannabis supply chain data
• Business insights founded in category management methodology

Platform Insights can eliminate the guesswork and provide answers to questions like:

• What is the gross margin return on inventory?
• What SKUs should be carried?
• How do basket adjacencies influence discounting and retention strategies?
• What does a medical market look like a year or five years after decriminalizing cannabis?

In every challenge, there is an opportunity. Download the eBook today and put Platform Insights to work.

About Akerna

Akerna is a global regulatory compliance technology company in the cannabis space. Akerna’s service offerings include MJ Platform®, Leaf Data Systems®, solo sciences tech platform, and Trellis. Since its establishment in 2010, the company has tracked more than $18 billion in cannabis sales. As part of its business strategy, Akerna intends to grow through targeted, strategic acquisitions that are complementary to its current business and organically by accelerating its product development efforts. Akerna is based in Denver. For more information, please visit akerna.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

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Akerna Media RelationsD. Nikki Wheeler Nikki.Wheeler@Akerna.com 303-514-2012	Akerna Investor Relations Jason Assad JAssad@akerna.com 678-570-6791