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
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
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.
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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
|
Governance
?
Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
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1 / 10 |
DoorDash operates a delivery marketplace for restaurants, grocery, convenience, retail, and local commerce, using Dashers to fulfill orders. Linked evidence
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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.
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-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
|
Accountability Opacity
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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
|
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
|
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
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Bonus Credits
No bonus credits applied in this version.
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
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.
- DoorDash annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%
2DoorDash operates a delivery marketplace for restaurants, grocery, convenience, retail, and local commerce, using Dashers to fulfill orders.
- DoorDash annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%
3DoorDash depends on independent-contractor Dashers and algorithmic platform management, creating weak driver sovereignty over pay, access, and working conditions.
- DoorDash annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%
4DoorDash controls fees, search/ranking, promotions, restaurant access, and customer relationships, producing asymmetric power over local merchants and delivery workers.
- DoorDash annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%
5DoorDash collects order, location, device, payment, account, merchant, Dasher, route, and delivery-performance data across its platform.
- DoorDash privacy policyOfficial self-description · 68%
6DoorDash fees, tips, delivery economics, restaurant commissions, promotions, and Dasher pay are difficult for ordinary customers and merchants to evaluate in one price.
- DoorDash annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%
7DoorDash adds packaging, short delivery trips, vehicle miles, and local-commerce logistics burdens compared with pickup, dine-in, or cooperative delivery.
- DoorDash annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%
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.
- DoorDash annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%
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.
- OpenLobby — DOORDASH, INC. lobbying profileGeneral web source · 58%
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…
- DoorDash public siteGeneral web source · 58%
- Our World in Data: Environmental Impacts of Food ProductionGeneral web source · 58%
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.
- OpenLobby — DOORDASH, INC. lobbying profileGeneral web source · 58%
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