The Shea Butter Protocol

Your work is the economic lifeblood of your community. For generations, the women of West Africa have been the stewards of the wild Karite tree, transforming its nuts into Shea Butter—an asset known globally as 'Women's Gold.' This is not simple farming; it is a community enterprise built on traditional, labor-intensive wisdom.

From wild harvesting to cracking, roasting, grinding, and clarifying, you produce a world-class ingredient that is foundational to the global cosmetics, wellness, and food industries. The integrity of your product is a testament to the integrity of your community.

Despite producing a globally demanded asset, your community is trapped at the beginning of a long and opaque supply chain. A vast network of intermediaries and processors stands between your village and the final luxury product on a shelf in New York or Paris.

These middlemen capture the vast majority of the final value, paying your cooperative a price based on raw material extraction, not on the finished product's worth. This is the broken equation that prevents true economic sovereignty.

THE GUILD protocol is capitalized to collapse the supply chain and return value to its source. We are executing full, premium-priced acquisitions of Shea Butter operations, from small-scale producers to entire community cooperatives, as envisioned in our Producer Prospectus.

We acquire the operational and market risk, providing a life-changing cash buyout that creates a foundation of stability and wealth for your community. The transaction includes a permanent equity stake, ensuring that as The Guild grows, the value flows back to the women and families who are the true stewards of this asset.