Cynic & Spore Labs

The Verified Mushroom Grower Platform

Sell mushrooms
from a URL,
not a clipboard.

Your own verified storefront at cynicandspore.com/farm/your-name. Live availability, harvest dates, chef inquiry form, and a Chef’s Cert behind every strain. Print the URL on a delivery box. Chefs tap and they’re in. No marketplace. No middleman.

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cynicandspore.com/farm/spore-haven
Verified Grower

Longmont, CO

Spore Haven

3

Strains Live

13

Public Batches

2024

Verified Since

Available Now

Updated live

LI
Fruiting now

Lion's Mane

4 batches

SH
Fresh harvest

Shiitake

6 batches

BL
Maturing

Blue Oyster

3 batches

The Problem

Without a Tracking System

×You lose a bag to trich and can’t figure out which substrate batch caused it
×You’re tracking 40 grows in a spreadsheet and something always slips
×A chef asks for proof and you’ve got nothing but a handshake

With Cynic & Spore

✓Contamination rates by strain, substrate, and stage — you find the pattern and fix it
✓Every batch moves through a drag-and-drop pipeline with stale-item alerts
✓Your buyer scans a QR code and sees harvest data, QA verification, and full lineage

What You Get

A storefront chefs can verify.
A backend that earns the badge.

Your Own Verified Storefront URL

A branded landing page at /farm/your-name. Live availability, harvest dates, your photos, your story. Print the URL on your delivery boxes. Hand it to a chef. They tap and they’re in.

Inquiries Land in Your Inbox — Not a Marketplace

When a chef wants to reserve next week’s harvest, the request hits your portal directly. No commission. No broker. No algorithm deciding which farms get visibility.

Every Batch Is Verifiable

Each strain on your storefront links to a Chef’s Cert with sterilization data, harvest date, culinary profile, and the full lineage tree. Buyers don’t have to trust you — they can check.

The moat behind the badge

Drag Batches Through Your Pipeline

See every grow at a glance — from prep to harvest. Drag-and-drop batches through lifecycle stages. Stale batches get flagged. Nothing falls through the cracks.

Catch Contamination Before It Spreads

Flag one bag and the system surfaces every sibling on the same lineage. See contamination rates by strain, substrate, stage, and season — stop repeating the combination that’s killing your flushes.

Lineage From Spore to Plate

Parent-to-child genealogy for every batch. Source culture → liquid culture → grain spawn → fruiting block → flush. The same tree your buyer sees on the Chef’s Cert.

Your Dashboard

This is what you see
when you log in.

Drag batches through your pipeline. Click into any batch for contamination logs, yield data, lineage, and label printing.

Pipeline

13 active
Preparing2

Sub Block #18

today

CS-2604-0431

Pink Oyster

Grain Jar #12

1d ago

CS-2604-0429

Reishi

Inoculating2

Grain Jar #09

today

CS-2604-0427

Lion's Mane

Sub Block #15

2d ago

CS-2604-0425

King Trumpet

Colonizing3

Grain Jar #06

3d ago

CS-2604-0421

Lion's Mane

42%

Grain Jar #04

5d ago

CS-2604-0418

Blue Oyster

78%

Sub Block #11

8d ago

CS-2604-0414

Chestnut

91%
Fruiting2

Frut. Block #3

14d ago

CS-2604-0408

King Trumpet

100%

Frut. Block #1

16d ago

CS-2604-0405

Blue Oyster

100%
Harvested2

Frut. Block #4

22d ago

CS-2604-0392

Lion's Mane

Frut. Block #2

27d ago

CS-2604-0387

Chestnut

Quarantine2

Sub Block #08

2d ago

CS-2604-0416

Pink Oyster

Green Mold (Trichoderma)

Grain Jar #02

6d ago

CS-2604-0410

Reishi

Bacterial Blotch

Batch Success Funnel

66%completion
Started
47
Active
12
Harvested
31
Contaminated
4

Contamination Deep-Dive

By Type

Green Mold (Trichoderma)3
Bacterial Blotch / Wet Rot2
Cobweb (Dactylium/Hypomyces)1

By Inoculant

Pink Oyster22% (2/9)
Blue Oyster11% (2/18)
Lion's Mane6% (1/17)
King Trumpet8% (1/12)

Strain Leaderboard

Lion's Mane

18 batches
312gavg
6% contam

Blue Oyster

14 batches
268gavg
11% contam

King Trumpet

9 batches
245gavg
8% contam

The Buyer Experience

What a chef sees when
they scan your QR.

Spore Haven

QA Passed

LION’S MANE

Hericium erinaceus · Strain LM-04

Harvested

TODAY

06:14 AM

Optimal Freshness

7 DAYS

STORE AT 36°F

Lot Code

SH-001

TRACEABLE

Best Application

Sear on cast iron (high heat) · avoid boiling.

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✓No app required — opens in any mobile browser
✓No login — chefs see the certificate instantly
✓Allergen declarations, grow conditions, and lot traceability included
✓One-tap reservation form for repeat buyers
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Built for Verification

8 Stages

Drag-Drop Pipeline

Preparing through Harvest, with contamination quarantine

4 Calculators

Built In

Spawn rate, CVG, hydration, sterilization

1 Scan

Buyer Proof

QR label → provenance certificate, no login required

“We needed to track grows, catch contamination patterns, and hand buyers proof that our process is real. Nothing on the market did all three — so we built it.”

— Cynic & Spore Labs, Longmont CO

How It Works

Three steps from inoculation to invoice.

01

Log Your Grows

Create a batch, pick your strain and substrate, and drag it through the pipeline as it moves through inoculation, colonization, fruiting, and harvest. Log contamination events, yields, and notes along the way.

02

See What’s Working

Analytics surface contamination patterns by strain, substrate, and stage. The strain leaderboard shows your top performers. Yield tracking shows trends over time. Data-driven decisions instead of guesswork.

03

Prove It to Your Buyer

When a batch is ready to sell, print a QR label. Your buyer scans it and sees a provenance certificate with harvest date, culinary profile, QA verification, and full lineage. No app, no login, no trust required.

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Pricing

Start free. Scale when ready.

Every plan includes cultivation tracking, QR Code printing, and batch documentation.

Every signup gets a 14-day free trial with full Pro access. No credit card required.

Hobby

$9/month
Active Slots15
Best forHome cultivation
✓15 active tracking slots
✓Cultivation calculators (hydration, grain-to-sub, F₀ lethality)
✓Manual batch logging
✓Basic PDF labels (2×1 or 4×6 with Batch ID)
✓Contamination tracker
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Popular

Grower

$25/month
Active SlotsUnlimited
Best forConsistency-focused grower
✓Unlimited batch logs
✓Everything in Hobby
✓Automated F₀ modeling
✓Lineage & chain of custody
✓Yield analytics (Bio-Efficiency per strain)
✓PDF QR labels (scannable Birth Certificate)
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Pro

$49/month
Active SlotsUnlimited
Best forSell direct to chefs
✓Branded storefront at /farm/{slug} — logo, hero, accent, live availability
✓Listed in the public /farms grower directory
✓Chef inquiry form — requests land in your portal, not a marketplace
✓Chef’s Cert behind every published batch (provenance + lineage tree)
✓Zebra ZD420t / ZPL thermal printing
✓Reserve Next Harvest button on every certificate
✓Everything in Grower
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Lab

Everything in Pro, plus custom integrations, dedicated support, and volume pricing. Built for commercial operations and research facilities.

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Subscriptions are billed through Stripe. Cancel any time from your Stripe billing portal. The Hobby plan allows 15 concurrent tracking slots — archived objects don't count against your quota. Grower and Pro plans include unlimited tracking.

Questions

Frequently Asked

No. The platform works independently — you can track any cultivation batch regardless of where you source your materials.

Yes — every new account gets a 14-day free trial with full Pro access. No credit card required. After the trial, choose the plan that fits your operation. Your data is retained either way.

Each custody object you are actively tracking uses one slot. The Hobby plan allows 15 concurrent slots. Grower and Pro plans include unlimited tracking. Archived objects never count against your quota.

Yes. Subscriptions are billed through Stripe and you can cancel at any time from your billing portal. Your data is retained if you cancel.

They see a provenance certificate with harvest date, QA verification status, culinary profile, and lineage back to the source culture. If you’ve enabled reservations, they can also submit a one-tap request. No login required.

Built by Cultivators, Not Contractors

We know because we grow.

We needed to track grows, catch contamination patterns, and prove our process to buyers. Nothing on the market did all three — so we built the system ourselves. Now we're opening it to every grower who wants the same standard.

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Pipeline tracking, contamination analytics, yield data, and QR provenance labels. Free trial · No credit card required

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