LXMI

LXMI extended Janah's impact-sourcing framework from digital labor to agricultural supply chains. The company sourced ingredients — particularly nilotica butter, a shea variant from Uganda — from women's cooperatives in East Africa, paying above-market wages and investing in community infrastructure. The products were sold into the luxury skincare market in the United States and Europe through Sephora and other premium retailers. LXMI operated on the same structural logic as Samasource: that paying workers dignified compensation and investing in institutional infrastructure produced better outcomes — for workers, for quality, for customer loyalty, and for the sustainability of the business — than the race-to-the-bottom logic dominating most supply chains. The company's existence demonstrated that the impact-sourcing framework generalized beyond digital labor to any industry where global supply chains routed work through communities the formal economy had systematically excluded.