PULLMAN, Wash. — October 13, 2026 — AROYA has released a connector that lets commercial cannabis growers plug their live AROYA account into Claude or ChatGPT and ask questions about their own facility in plain language. Questions that used to mean an afternoon of exports and cross-referencing now take a sentence.
Growers can ask for a daily facility report before walking rooms, rank rooms by average EC and substrate moisture over the past week, pull irrigation events that preceded a dryback, find which devices have unstable connections, compare two runs of the same cultivar across facilities, and more.
“As far as I can tell, we’re the first cultivation platform to offer this,” said Philip Malmquist, Director of AROYA. “But a connector is a tool, not a cure. If you plug it in and change nothing, nothing changes. What it does is cut the time between question and answer, which has always been the expensive part.”
AROYA is not supplying the analysis. The reasoning comes from the grower's own AI assistant, running on the grower's own subscription and the model they choose.
"The only thing our product does here is connect an AI agent to the data and point it at the right place," said Jason Van Leuven, Director of Applied Technology at AROYA, who built the connector and ran the beta program. “From there, growers tell it how they want help. Ask for a one-line answer, a table, or a full morning report, and that’s what you get.”
Unlike scripted chatbots built around a short list of preset questions, the connector isn’t limited to what someone anticipated in advance. Growers can have the assistant of their choice work with their AROYA data however they need it to, whether that’s comparing runs, checking sensor health or building a daily facility report.
"As soon as I started using it, I felt [the benefit] right off the bat," said a director of cultivation who took part in the beta program. "If these scheduled reports work, this is going to take away a good two hours that I get back.”
Through the connector, growers can reach nearly everything in the AROYA app from their own Claude or ChatGPT account, from sensor readings and irrigation history to harvest groups and sensor health – and the connector can export what it finds into whatever format the grower prefers.
Setup takes a few minutes. A grower adds a custom connector in Claude or ChatGPT, signs in with their AROYA credentials, and the connector scopes itself to the facilities that login already reaches. Paid Claude and ChatGPT plans support it. While free ChatGPT accounts do not allow connectors, free Claude accounts do. Team and enterprise plans require an administrator to enable it.
The connector is free to every AROYA subscriber through the end of 2026 and will be $25 per facility per month on renewal after that.
More information on the connector can be found at aroya.io/artificial-intelligence.
About AROYA
AROYA is a precision cultivation platform combining substrate and climate sensors with crop steering software, used by commercial cannabis operators globally. It is a business unit of Addium, which has built measurement instruments for agriculture and food science for more than 40 years. Learn more at aroya.io.
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