JOTA LIVING PRESENTS:

High Desert

Desert Magic for Sensitive Humans

MOMENTS, POSITIONING & BRAND ARCHITECTURE · AUGUST 2026

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PURPOSE

What we are here to review

This presentation brings together what Jota has already built, the territory evaluated over the engagement, and the recommended foundation for High Desert.

Today


  • Begin with Jam, Jota and the customer history
  • Review the sales and market evidence
  • Show the strategic routes considered
  • Present the recommended positioning and architecture

The outcome


  • A clear relationship between Jota Living and High Desert
  • A defined customer and market opportunity
  • Distinct roles for Social, Focus and Chill
  • A source document for future briefs

JOTA LIVING PRESENTS HIGH DESERT

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JAM AND JOTA

The strategy begins with lived experience.

Jam built Jota from her experience as a longtime cannabis consumer and a highly sensitive person who wanted products that felt gentler, more predictable, more useful in real life and more considered than what she saw in the market.

What Jam built


Jota evolved from an age-positive idea into a functional cannabis brand grounded in thoughtful dosing, self-trust, pleasure and the belief that more is not always better.

“More sparkle. Less bullshit.”

What remains true


  • JOTA means Joy of the Adventure.
  • Trust Your Dopeness remains an important expression.
  • Roxie Bloom was built substantially from Jam’s life and point of view.
  • The sensitive-human direction names something already present in the founder, customer and products.

THE FOUNDER, CUSTOMER AND BRAND ALREADY SHARE THE SAME POINT OF VIEW

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SALES HISTORY · JULY 2025–JULY 2026

Jota has real products, customers and buying behavior to build from.

$148,975.51

Net sales across the product-variant report

13,772

Units sold across listed variants

$56,355

Soberish channel sales

$48,692.90

Wholesale-to-retail sales

Channel history

Soberish


$56,355

Wholesale


$48,692.90

Online


$37,565.39

Subscriptions


$3,068.20

Leading variants

  • $22,196.95 · Social 10MG Giddy Up — Watermelon
  • $19,594.40 · 10MG Raunch Water
  • $16,632.25 · 25MG Raunch Water
  • $16,055.04 · Social 10MG Giddy Up — Texas Peach
  • $14,741.85 · Social Potion

Client-supplied reports begin one day apart; product and channel totals are read independently.

SOCIAL AND RAUNCH WATER ALREADY PROVIDE MEANINGFUL COMMERCIAL EVIDENCE

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TERRITORY EVALUATED

What we considered before arriving at the recommendation

Inputs reviewed


  • Jam’s story, Roxie Bloom, customer reviews and survey material
  • Twelve months of sales by channel and product variant
  • The current Jota portfolio and High Desert concepts
  • National, Texas, Austin and Marfa audience context
  • Identity-led versus diagnostic language
  • Moment-led versus ingredient-led architecture

Routes evaluated


  • Separate brand or endorsed Jota line
  • Broad wellness or a sharper sensitive-human audience
  • Ingredients or recognizable daily moments
  • Three labels or three genuinely different product jobs
  • Austin for demand and Marfa for cultural credibility
  • Flexibility for future formats and regulation

Alignment with Kalon · July 24

Kalon aligned with keeping High Desert inside Jota Living, using Jota Living presents High Desert, and organizing the line around Social, Focus and Chill.

The intended feeling and use case should lead. Future technical choices should support the approved promise.

NEXT: THE RECOMMENDED DIRECTION

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THE DIRECTION

High Desert helps sensitive humans navigate the day on their own terms.

High Desert is a functional beverage line organized around three everyday moments.

Social

When she wants to connect without adding more noise.

Focus

When she needs clarity, not more intensity.

Chill

When she is ready to stop managing everything for the day.

Desert Magic for Sensitive Humans belongs to High Desert. It is not the positioning line for Jota Living as a whole.

THE EXPERIENCE LEADS; FUTURE INGREDIENTS AND FORMATS SUPPORT IT

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PRIORITY CUSTOMER

Roxie has not changed. We can describe her better.

The sensitive-human framing does not replace Roxie Bloom. It explains more of what is happening beneath the lifestyle Jota already understood.

Who she is

  • Female or non-binary, generally 35+
  • $80K+ income, retired or financially independent
  • Entrepreneur, creative, early retiree or corporate dropout
  • Values freedom, joy, expression, beauty and intention
  • Design-aware and willing to pay for considered products

Her internal life

  • She notices and processes a lot.
  • She may feel introverted, scattered, anxious or easily overstimulated.
  • She wants greater choice over how she enters a moment.
  • She rejects clinical, boring, aggressive and “stoner-bro” products.
  • She does not need a diagnosis to recognize herself.

SELL TO THE IDENTITY, NEVER TO THE CONDITION

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AUDIENCE AND MARKET

The audience is meaningful without being treated as one clinical category.

15.5M

U.S. adults reporting a current ADHD diagnosis

20–30%

Common research range for high sensory-processing sensitivity

31.7M

Texas residents in 2025

2.62M

Austin metro residents in 2025

Austin · demand

Approximately two million adults and a directional planning range of 300,000–400,000 self-recognizing sensitive or neurodivergent adults.

Planning context, not a sales forecast.

Marfa · credibility

Small resident population; significant cultural influence through art, visitors, hospitality and design. Its value is story and authority rather than volume.

Strategic rule: help people recognize themselves without implying the product diagnoses, treats or corrects a condition.

AUSTIN IS WHERE HIGH DESERT CAN BUILD DEMAND; MARFA HELPS BUILD THE WORLD

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POSITIONING

High Desert

Desert Magic for Sensitive Humans

High Desert is a functional beverage line for sensitive humans. Social, Focus and Chill are made for moments when someone wants to connect, clear the noise or be done for the day.

Desert magic

Space, perspective, transformation, beauty in a demanding environment, and a little pleasure and possibility in the middle of real life.

Sensitive humans

People who feel, notice and process a lot. Human rather than clinical; recognition without presenting sensitivity as a problem.

HIGH DESERT DOES NOT ASK HER TO BECOME LOUDER, FASTER OR LESS SENSITIVE

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BRAND RELATIONSHIP

Jota Living presents High Desert

Jota Living presents

Creator and endorsing brand

High Desert

Functional beverage line

Desert Magic for Sensitive Humans

High Desert positioning line

Social · Focus · Chill

Three products and moments

Jota provides

Originating point of view, credibility, self-trust, intentional use and the larger world High Desert belongs to.

High Desert provides

A distinct platform, audience, positioning, three-moment system and room for future products that fit the same logic.

HIGH DESERT LEADS; THE JOTA ENDORSEMENT STAYS CONSISTENT AND SECONDARY

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MOMENT ARCHITECTURE

Three answers to three different moments

Product

The moment

Starting point

Desired shift

Social

Entering connection

Inward, depleted or hesitant

Open, available and present

Focus

Finding the next step

Scattered or carrying too many inputs

Clear enough to begin

Chill

Releasing the day

Still holding effort and responsibility

Settled, present and finished

Connection without adding more noise.

Clarity without intensity.

Permission to be done.

ONE AUDIENCE AND WORLDVIEW; THREE DISTINCT JOBS

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SOCIAL · FLAGSHIP

Connection without adding more noise.

For the moment when staying home would be easier, but part of her still wants to go.

The shift

From inward, hesitant or socially depleted to more open, present and willing to connect.

Use cases

Dinner, a date, an event, a friend, a festival or the transition from work mode into connection.

Recommended strategic copy

High Desert Social is for the moment when staying home would be easier, but part of you still wants to go. It makes connection feel more available without asking you to turn yourself all the way up.

Avoid

Forced extroversion, party clichés, aggressive energy and claims about treating social anxiety.

SOCIAL IS THE BROADEST AND MOST COMMERCIALLY PROVEN ENTRY INTO HIGH DESERT

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FOCUS

Clarity without intensity.

For people who do not need more pressure, energy or stimulation. They need fewer competing inputs and a clearer next step.

The shift

From scattered and overloaded to clear enough to identify and begin the next step.

Use cases

Writing, editing, planning, creative work, re-entry after distraction or replacing the third cup of coffee.

Recommended strategic copy

High Desert Focus is for the moment when too many things are competing for your attention. Clear a little space, find the next step and begin without turning the pressure up.

Avoid

Hustle language, productivity coaching, aggressive stimulant cues and promises about treating ADHD.

FOCUS IS SIMPLIFICATION, NOT STIMULATION

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CHILL

Permission to be done.

For the point when enough adulting has happened and the day may be technically over, but she is still carrying it.

The shift

From accumulated effort and noise to decompression, presence and the feeling that she can stop for now.

Use cases

After work, after travel or crowds, an evening ritual or the transition from responsibility into personal time.

Recommended strategic copy

High Desert Chill is for the point when you have done enough for one day. It creates a softer landing between everything you were carrying and the evening that belongs to you.

Avoid

Sedation, numbing, sleep confusion and nervous-system or anxiety-treatment claims.

CHILL IS DECOMPRESSION WITHOUT CHECKING OUT

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SYSTEM AND NEXT STEPS

The strategy should make every future brief clearer.

Messaging order

  • Jota endorsement
  • High Desert
  • Desert Magic for Sensitive Humans
  • Social, Focus or Chill
  • Immediate benefit
  • Supporting product information

Future briefs

  • Customer and occasion
  • Starting state and desired shift
  • Benefit hierarchy
  • Experience to avoid
  • Flavor and sensory direction
  • Evidence required for claims

Next steps

  • Approve the strategic language
  • Complete one consolidated revision
  • Issue the strategy as the source document
  • Scope formulation, claims, packaging, collateral and launch work when ready

Presentation target: Friday, August 7, 2026. One consolidated revision round may follow within the contract’s five-business-day response window.

JOTA LIVING PRESENTS HIGH DESERT · DESERT MAGIC FOR SENSITIVE HUMANS

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