DoorDash

public company

DoorDash

Industry Services

A public delivery platform connecting restaurants, stores, customers, and Dashers. DoorDash is convenient but scores low because gig-worker power, fees, restaurant dependence, algorithmic management, surveillance, and delivery externalities are structural to the model.

Why this matters: Food delivery should be compared against CoopCycle, local delivery, restaurants, and direct pickup rather than treated as a neutral convenience layer.

Letter grade F Malignant Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1

Final Score -10* F - Malignant

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material6
Bonus+0
Cap35Ownership <= 2 and Governance <= 2
After Cap6
Penalties-16
G
Private Government badge

DoorDash receives the Private Government badge because it combines large-scale private rule-setting over customers, workers, users, members, or counterparties with OpenLobby-documented lobbying of about $520K on public policy issues.

Evidence: [11]

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Evaluation Overview

F - Malignant

The score turns mainly on Product Integrity, with the largest penalty coming from Policy Capture.

Strengths

  • Product Integrity3/5
  • Ownership1/10
  • Governance1/10

Penalties

  • Policy Capture-5
  • Surveillance Capture-4
  • Ecological Harm-2
  • High-Carbon Products-2

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
  • Linked claims11
  • Direct axis claims10
  • Coverage10/15

Scoring Axes

Axis Score Why this score
Ownership
?
Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
1 / 10

DoorDash is a shareholder-governed public platform company, so drivers, restaurants, and customers do not control pricing, ranking, fees, or deactivation rules.

Linked evidence
  • DoorDash is a shareholder-governed public platform company, so drivers, restaurants, and customers do not control pricing, ranking, fees, or deactivation rules. [1]
Governance
?
Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
1 / 10

DoorDash operates a delivery marketplace for restaurants, grocery, convenience, retail, and local commerce, using Dashers to fulfill orders.

Linked evidence
  • context DoorDash operates a delivery marketplace for restaurants, grocery, convenience, retail, and local commerce, using Dashers to fulfill orders. [2]
  • context DoorDash is a shareholder-governed public platform company, so drivers, restaurants, and customers do not control pricing, ranking, fees, or deactivation rules. [1]
  • context DoorDash depends on independent-contractor Dashers and algorithmic platform management, creating weak driver sovereignty over pay, access, and working conditions. [3]
  • context DoorDash controls fees, search/ranking, promotions, restaurant access, and customer relationships, producing asymmetric power over local merchants and delivery workers. [4]
  • context DoorDash collects order, location, device, payment, account, merchant, Dasher, route, and delivery-performance data across its platform. [5]
  • context DoorDash fees, tips, delivery economics, restaurant commissions, promotions, and Dasher pay are difficult for ordinary customers and merchants to evaluate in one price. [6]
  • context DoorDash adds packaging, short delivery trips, vehicle miles, and local-commerce logistics burdens compared with pickup, dine-in, or cooperative delivery. [7]
  • context DoorDash retains conduct relevant to the Ideological Disavowal penalty: it presents algorithmic gig labor and merchant dependence as neutral local-commerce infrastructure rather than a contested labor and market-governance model. [8]
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
0 / 10

DoorDash operates a delivery marketplace for restaurants, grocery, convenience, retail, and local commerce, using Dashers to fulfill orders.

Linked evidence
  • context DoorDash operates a delivery marketplace for restaurants, grocery, convenience, retail, and local commerce, using Dashers to fulfill orders. [2]
  • context DoorDash is a shareholder-governed public platform company, so drivers, restaurants, and customers do not control pricing, ranking, fees, or deactivation rules. [1]
  • context DoorDash depends on independent-contractor Dashers and algorithmic platform management, creating weak driver sovereignty over pay, access, and working conditions. [3]
  • context DoorDash controls fees, search/ranking, promotions, restaurant access, and customer relationships, producing asymmetric power over local merchants and delivery workers. [4]
  • context DoorDash collects order, location, device, payment, account, merchant, Dasher, route, and delivery-performance data across its platform. [5]
  • context DoorDash fees, tips, delivery economics, restaurant commissions, promotions, and Dasher pay are difficult for ordinary customers and merchants to evaluate in one price. [6]
  • context DoorDash adds packaging, short delivery trips, vehicle miles, and local-commerce logistics burdens compared with pickup, dine-in, or cooperative delivery. [7]
  • context DoorDash retains conduct relevant to the Ideological Disavowal penalty: it presents algorithmic gig labor and merchant dependence as neutral local-commerce infrastructure rather than a contested labor and market-governance model. [8]
Labor Sovereignty
?
Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.
0 / 7

DoorDash depends on independent-contractor Dashers and algorithmic platform management, creating weak driver sovereignty over pay, access, and working conditions.

Linked evidence
  • DoorDash depends on independent-contractor Dashers and algorithmic platform management, creating weak driver sovereignty over pay, access, and working conditions. [3]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
?
Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
0 / 7

DoorDash operates a delivery marketplace for restaurants, grocery, convenience, retail, and local commerce, using Dashers to fulfill orders.

Linked evidence
  • context DoorDash operates a delivery marketplace for restaurants, grocery, convenience, retail, and local commerce, using Dashers to fulfill orders. [2]
  • context DoorDash is a shareholder-governed public platform company, so drivers, restaurants, and customers do not control pricing, ranking, fees, or deactivation rules. [1]
  • context DoorDash depends on independent-contractor Dashers and algorithmic platform management, creating weak driver sovereignty over pay, access, and working conditions. [3]
  • context DoorDash controls fees, search/ranking, promotions, restaurant access, and customer relationships, producing asymmetric power over local merchants and delivery workers. [4]
  • context DoorDash collects order, location, device, payment, account, merchant, Dasher, route, and delivery-performance data across its platform. [5]
  • context DoorDash fees, tips, delivery economics, restaurant commissions, promotions, and Dasher pay are difficult for ordinary customers and merchants to evaluate in one price. [6]
  • context DoorDash adds packaging, short delivery trips, vehicle miles, and local-commerce logistics burdens compared with pickup, dine-in, or cooperative delivery. [7]
  • context DoorDash retains conduct relevant to the Ideological Disavowal penalty: it presents algorithmic gig labor and merchant dependence as neutral local-commerce infrastructure rather than a contested labor and market-governance model. [8]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
1 / 7

DoorDash operates a delivery marketplace for restaurants, grocery, convenience, retail, and local commerce, using Dashers to fulfill orders.

Linked evidence
  • context DoorDash operates a delivery marketplace for restaurants, grocery, convenience, retail, and local commerce, using Dashers to fulfill orders. [2]
  • context DoorDash is a shareholder-governed public platform company, so drivers, restaurants, and customers do not control pricing, ranking, fees, or deactivation rules. [1]
  • context DoorDash depends on independent-contractor Dashers and algorithmic platform management, creating weak driver sovereignty over pay, access, and working conditions. [3]
  • context DoorDash controls fees, search/ranking, promotions, restaurant access, and customer relationships, producing asymmetric power over local merchants and delivery workers. [4]
  • context DoorDash collects order, location, device, payment, account, merchant, Dasher, route, and delivery-performance data across its platform. [5]
  • context DoorDash fees, tips, delivery economics, restaurant commissions, promotions, and Dasher pay are difficult for ordinary customers and merchants to evaluate in one price. [6]
  • context DoorDash adds packaging, short delivery trips, vehicle miles, and local-commerce logistics burdens compared with pickup, dine-in, or cooperative delivery. [7]
  • context DoorDash retains conduct relevant to the Ideological Disavowal penalty: it presents algorithmic gig labor and merchant dependence as neutral local-commerce infrastructure rather than a contested labor and market-governance model. [8]
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
0 / 5

DoorDash controls fees, search/ranking, promotions, restaurant access, and customer relationships, producing asymmetric power over local merchants and delivery workers.

Linked evidence
  • DoorDash controls fees, search/ranking, promotions, restaurant access, and customer relationships, producing asymmetric power over local merchants and delivery workers. [4]
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
3 / 5

DoorDash operates a delivery marketplace for restaurants, grocery, convenience, retail, and local commerce, using Dashers to fulfill orders.

Linked evidence
  • DoorDash operates a delivery marketplace for restaurants, grocery, convenience, retail, and local commerce, using Dashers to fulfill orders. [2]
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
0 / 5

DoorDash operates a delivery marketplace for restaurants, grocery, convenience, retail, and local commerce, using Dashers to fulfill orders.

Linked evidence
  • context DoorDash operates a delivery marketplace for restaurants, grocery, convenience, retail, and local commerce, using Dashers to fulfill orders. [2]
  • context DoorDash is a shareholder-governed public platform company, so drivers, restaurants, and customers do not control pricing, ranking, fees, or deactivation rules. [1]
  • context DoorDash depends on independent-contractor Dashers and algorithmic platform management, creating weak driver sovereignty over pay, access, and working conditions. [3]
  • context DoorDash controls fees, search/ranking, promotions, restaurant access, and customer relationships, producing asymmetric power over local merchants and delivery workers. [4]
  • context DoorDash collects order, location, device, payment, account, merchant, Dasher, route, and delivery-performance data across its platform. [5]
  • context DoorDash fees, tips, delivery economics, restaurant commissions, promotions, and Dasher pay are difficult for ordinary customers and merchants to evaluate in one price. [6]
  • context DoorDash adds packaging, short delivery trips, vehicle miles, and local-commerce logistics burdens compared with pickup, dine-in, or cooperative delivery. [7]
  • context DoorDash retains conduct relevant to the Ideological Disavowal penalty: it presents algorithmic gig labor and merchant dependence as neutral local-commerce infrastructure rather than a contested labor and market-governance model. [8]

Penalties

Penalty Applied Why this penalty
Ecological Harm
?
Footprint, trajectory, irreversibility, culpability, and scale, including whether ecological harm is central to the model and continued after credible notice. Range: -30 to 0.
-2

DoorDash adds packaging, short delivery trips, vehicle miles, and local-commerce logistics burdens compared with pickup, dine-in, or cooperative delivery.

Linked evidence
  • DoorDash adds packaging, short delivery trips, vehicle miles, and local-commerce logistics burdens compared with pickup, dine-in, or cooperative delivery. [7]
Policy Capture
?
Private-interest attempts to bend law, regulation, subsidies, taxes, enforcement, trade, labor, safety, competition, environmental, healthcare, housing, surveillance, civil-liberties, or consumer policy against workers, customers, citizens, affected communities, or ecological life. Public-interest advocacy is not penalized merely because it is lobbying. Range: -15 to 0.
-5

OpenLobby records DOORDASH, INC. lobbying on labor, transportation, tax with about $520K in spending across 13 filings; the reviewed filings document private institutional lobbying over public rules rather than a public-interest advocacy role.

Linked evidence
  • OpenLobby records DOORDASH, INC. lobbying on labor, transportation, tax with about $520K in spending across 13 filings; the reviewed filings document private institutional lobbying over public rules rather than a public-interest advocacy role. [9]
High-Carbon Products
?
Core products, services, financing, or supply chains that materially depend on fossil-fuel combustion, high-emissions transport, industrial animal agriculture, meat, dairy, or other unusually carbon-intensive activity. This is scored separately from general ecological harm so ordinary consumers can see carbon-intensive product exposure directly. Range: -10 to 0.
-2

The company sells mixed grocery, restaurant, or packaged-food products where meat, dairy, refrigerated logistics, or high-carbon ingredients are material but not necessarily the entire business model.

Linked evidence
  • DoorDash has mixed food exposure high-carbon product exposure based on its listed business model and current profile description: A public delivery platform connecting restaurants, stores, customers, and Dashers. DoorDash is convenient but scores low because gig-worker power, fees, restaurant dependence, algorithmic management, surveillance, and d… [10]
Accountability Opacity
?
Material opacity, reputation laundering, or hidden accountability structures that prevent public accountability. Range: -2 to 0.
-2

DoorDash fees, tips, delivery economics, restaurant commissions, promotions, and Dasher pay are difficult for ordinary customers and merchants to evaluate in one price.

Linked evidence
  • DoorDash fees, tips, delivery economics, restaurant commissions, promotions, and Dasher pay are difficult for ordinary customers and merchants to evaluate in one price. [6]
Surveillance Capture
?
Invasive surveillance, unreasonably non-optional tracking, facial recognition, biometric identification, or AI behavior scanning of customers, workers, bystanders, or the public. Range: -5 to 0.
-4

DoorDash collects order, location, device, payment, account, merchant, Dasher, route, and delivery-performance data across its platform.

Linked evidence
  • DoorDash collects order, location, device, payment, account, merchant, Dasher, route, and delivery-performance data across its platform. [5]
Ideological Disavowal
?
Concealed ideology presented as neutrality, expertise, professional necessity, public-service administration, market inevitability, or non-ideological common sense while exercising power. Range: -3 to 0.
-1

DoorDash retains conduct relevant to the Ideological Disavowal penalty: it presents algorithmic gig labor and merchant dependence as neutral local-commerce infrastructure rather than a contested labor and market-governance model.

Linked evidence
  • DoorDash retains conduct relevant to the Ideological Disavowal penalty: it presents algorithmic gig labor and merchant dependence as neutral local-commerce infrastructure rather than a contested labor and market-governance model. [8]

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Confidence Basis

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

Medium 76/100

10 verified linked claims 10 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 10/15 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 17/20

10 verified linked claims

Source quality 15/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 9/18

10 direct claims across 15 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 7/10

10/15 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
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Claims and Sources

Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
1DoorDash is a shareholder-governed public platform company, so drivers, restaurants, and customers do not control pricing, ranking, fees, or deactivation rules.

Ownership Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

2DoorDash operates a delivery marketplace for restaurants, grocery, convenience, retail, and local commerce, using Dashers to fulfill orders.

Product Integrity Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

3DoorDash depends on independent-contractor Dashers and algorithmic platform management, creating weak driver sovereignty over pay, access, and working conditions.

Labor Sovereignty Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

4DoorDash controls fees, search/ranking, promotions, restaurant access, and customer relationships, producing asymmetric power over local merchants and delivery workers.

Market Conduct Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

5DoorDash collects order, location, device, payment, account, merchant, Dasher, route, and delivery-performance data across its platform.

Surveillance Capture Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

6DoorDash fees, tips, delivery economics, restaurant commissions, promotions, and Dasher pay are difficult for ordinary customers and merchants to evaluate in one price.

Accountability Opacity Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

7DoorDash adds packaging, short delivery trips, vehicle miles, and local-commerce logistics burdens compared with pickup, dine-in, or cooperative delivery.

Ecological Harm Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

8DoorDash retains conduct relevant to the Ideological Disavowal penalty: it presents algorithmic gig labor and merchant dependence as neutral local-commerce infrastructure rather than a contested labor and market-governance model.

Ideological Disavowal Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

9OpenLobby records DOORDASH, INC. lobbying on labor, transportation, tax with about $520K in spending across 13 filings; the reviewed filings document private institutional lobbying over public rules rather than a public-interest advocacy role.

Policy Capture Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

10DoorDash has mixed food exposure high-carbon product exposure based on its listed business model and current profile description: A public delivery platform connecting restaurants, stores, customers, and Dashers. DoorDash is convenient but scores low because gig-worker power, fees, restaurant dependence, algorithmic management, surveillance, and d…

High Carbon Products Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

11DoorDash receives the Private Government badge because it combines large-scale private rule-setting over customers, workers, users, members, or counterparties with OpenLobby-documented lobbying of about $520K on public policy issues.

Private Government Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

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