PCs for People

nonprofit low-cost computer and internet provider

PCs for People

Industry Internet

A nonprofit that refurbishes computers and provides low-cost devices, repairs, accessories, and internet access for income-eligible people. PCs for People scores strongly because it turns discarded hardware and connectivity into direct access to work, school, benefits, and communication.

Why this matters: Digital exclusion blocks almost every modern opportunity; low-cost devices and internet are not a luxury service.

Letter grade A Good High confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1

Final Score 58* A - Good

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

Base Material54
Bonus+5
Cap66No structure cap
After Cap59
Penalties-1
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Evaluation Overview

A - Good

The score turns mainly on Extraction, with the largest penalty coming from Subscription Capture.

Strengths

  • Extraction8/10
  • Ownership7/10
  • Solidarity with the Unemployed7/7

Penalties

  • Subscription Capture-1

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
  • Linked claims12
  • Direct axis claims12
  • Coverage12/12

Scoring Axes

Axis Score Why this score
Ownership
?
Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
7 / 10

PCs for People's public materials identify its ownership form, nonprofit status, platform status, public-benefit structure, or private company status in the internet category.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Under-known public-benefit service pass calibrated across benefits navigation, accessibility, caregiving, digital inclusion, reuse, repair, childcare, mobility, and open-data services.

Linked evidence
  • PCs for People's public materials identify its ownership form, nonprofit status, platform status, public-benefit structure, or private company status in the internet category. [1]
  • context PCs for People's public materials indicate whether binding control sits with a nonprofit board, company managers, volunteers, members, public-service partners, or users. [2]
  • context PCs for People's public model determines whether the service primarily reduces user costs and friction or channels a public need through a proprietary platform. [3]
  • context PCs for People's public materials do not show ordinary workers or volunteers holding full binding democratic control over the organization. [4]
  • context PCs for People serves a public need linked to disability, poverty, medical bills, caregiving, childcare, repair, mobility, information access, or benefit navigation. [5]
  • context PCs for People's service can absorb practical risk for users by reducing costs, restoring access, coordinating help, preventing loss, or making essential information easier to use. [6]
  • context PCs for People operates where ordinary users often face fragmented services, inaccessible formats, high search costs, gatekeeping, or limited practical alternatives. [7]
  • context PCs for People's core offering has direct practical utility for users, with integrity depending on accessibility, privacy, quality, cost, availability, and accountability. [8]
  • context PCs for People's scale or replicable model makes its service consequential beyond a single local provider or one-time product purchase. [9]
Governance
?
Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
6 / 10

PCs for People's public materials indicate whether binding control sits with a nonprofit board, company managers, volunteers, members, public-service partners, or users.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Under-known public-benefit service pass calibrated across benefits navigation, accessibility, caregiving, digital inclusion, reuse, repair, childcare, mobility, and open-data services.

Linked evidence
  • context PCs for People's public materials identify its ownership form, nonprofit status, platform status, public-benefit structure, or private company status in the internet category. [1]
  • PCs for People's public materials indicate whether binding control sits with a nonprofit board, company managers, volunteers, members, public-service partners, or users. [2]
  • context PCs for People's public model determines whether the service primarily reduces user costs and friction or channels a public need through a proprietary platform. [3]
  • context PCs for People's public materials do not show ordinary workers or volunteers holding full binding democratic control over the organization. [4]
  • context PCs for People serves a public need linked to disability, poverty, medical bills, caregiving, childcare, repair, mobility, information access, or benefit navigation. [5]
  • context PCs for People's service can absorb practical risk for users by reducing costs, restoring access, coordinating help, preventing loss, or making essential information easier to use. [6]
  • context PCs for People operates where ordinary users often face fragmented services, inaccessible formats, high search costs, gatekeeping, or limited practical alternatives. [7]
  • context PCs for People's core offering has direct practical utility for users, with integrity depending on accessibility, privacy, quality, cost, availability, and accountability. [8]
  • context PCs for People's scale or replicable model makes its service consequential beyond a single local provider or one-time product purchase. [9]
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
8 / 10

PCs for People's public model determines whether the service primarily reduces user costs and friction or channels a public need through a proprietary platform.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Under-known public-benefit service pass calibrated across benefits navigation, accessibility, caregiving, digital inclusion, reuse, repair, childcare, mobility, and open-data services.

Linked evidence
  • context PCs for People's public materials identify its ownership form, nonprofit status, platform status, public-benefit structure, or private company status in the internet category. [1]
  • context PCs for People's public materials indicate whether binding control sits with a nonprofit board, company managers, volunteers, members, public-service partners, or users. [2]
  • PCs for People's public model determines whether the service primarily reduces user costs and friction or channels a public need through a proprietary platform. [3]
  • context PCs for People's public materials do not show ordinary workers or volunteers holding full binding democratic control over the organization. [4]
  • context PCs for People serves a public need linked to disability, poverty, medical bills, caregiving, childcare, repair, mobility, information access, or benefit navigation. [5]
  • context PCs for People's service can absorb practical risk for users by reducing costs, restoring access, coordinating help, preventing loss, or making essential information easier to use. [6]
  • context PCs for People operates where ordinary users often face fragmented services, inaccessible formats, high search costs, gatekeeping, or limited practical alternatives. [7]
  • context PCs for People's core offering has direct practical utility for users, with integrity depending on accessibility, privacy, quality, cost, availability, and accountability. [8]
  • context PCs for People's scale or replicable model makes its service consequential beyond a single local provider or one-time product purchase. [9]
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.
5 / 7

PCs for People's linked public materials do not show ordinary workers or volunteers holding full binding democratic control over the organization.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Under-known public-benefit service pass calibrated across benefits navigation, accessibility, caregiving, digital inclusion, reuse, repair, childcare, mobility, and open-data services.

Linked evidence
  • context PCs for People's public materials identify its ownership form, nonprofit status, platform status, public-benefit structure, or private company status in the internet category. [1]
  • context PCs for People's public materials indicate whether binding control sits with a nonprofit board, company managers, volunteers, members, public-service partners, or users. [2]
  • context PCs for People's public model determines whether the service primarily reduces user costs and friction or channels a public need through a proprietary platform. [3]
  • PCs for People's public materials do not show ordinary workers or volunteers holding full binding democratic control over the organization. [4]
  • context PCs for People serves a public need linked to disability, poverty, medical bills, caregiving, childcare, repair, mobility, information access, or benefit navigation. [5]
  • context PCs for People's service can absorb practical risk for users by reducing costs, restoring access, coordinating help, preventing loss, or making essential information easier to use. [6]
  • context PCs for People operates where ordinary users often face fragmented services, inaccessible formats, high search costs, gatekeeping, or limited practical alternatives. [7]
  • context PCs for People's core offering has direct practical utility for users, with integrity depending on accessibility, privacy, quality, cost, availability, and accountability. [8]
  • context PCs for People's scale or replicable model makes its service consequential beyond a single local provider or one-time product purchase. [9]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
?
Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
7 / 7

PCs for People serves a public need linked to disability, poverty, medical bills, caregiving, childcare, repair, mobility, information access, or benefit navigation.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Under-known public-benefit service pass calibrated across benefits navigation, accessibility, caregiving, digital inclusion, reuse, repair, childcare, mobility, and open-data services.

Linked evidence
  • context PCs for People's public materials identify its ownership form, nonprofit status, platform status, public-benefit structure, or private company status in the internet category. [1]
  • context PCs for People's public materials indicate whether binding control sits with a nonprofit board, company managers, volunteers, members, public-service partners, or users. [2]
  • context PCs for People's public model determines whether the service primarily reduces user costs and friction or channels a public need through a proprietary platform. [3]
  • context PCs for People's public materials do not show ordinary workers or volunteers holding full binding democratic control over the organization. [4]
  • PCs for People serves a public need linked to disability, poverty, medical bills, caregiving, childcare, repair, mobility, information access, or benefit navigation. [5]
  • context PCs for People's service can absorb practical risk for users by reducing costs, restoring access, coordinating help, preventing loss, or making essential information easier to use. [6]
  • context PCs for People operates where ordinary users often face fragmented services, inaccessible formats, high search costs, gatekeeping, or limited practical alternatives. [7]
  • context PCs for People's core offering has direct practical utility for users, with integrity depending on accessibility, privacy, quality, cost, availability, and accountability. [8]
  • context PCs for People's scale or replicable model makes its service consequential beyond a single local provider or one-time product purchase. [9]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
6 / 7

PCs for People's service can absorb practical risk for users by reducing costs, restoring access, coordinating help, preventing loss, or making essential information easier to use.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Under-known public-benefit service pass calibrated across benefits navigation, accessibility, caregiving, digital inclusion, reuse, repair, childcare, mobility, and open-data services.

Linked evidence
  • context PCs for People's public materials identify its ownership form, nonprofit status, platform status, public-benefit structure, or private company status in the internet category. [1]
  • context PCs for People's public materials indicate whether binding control sits with a nonprofit board, company managers, volunteers, members, public-service partners, or users. [2]
  • context PCs for People's public model determines whether the service primarily reduces user costs and friction or channels a public need through a proprietary platform. [3]
  • context PCs for People's public materials do not show ordinary workers or volunteers holding full binding democratic control over the organization. [4]
  • context PCs for People serves a public need linked to disability, poverty, medical bills, caregiving, childcare, repair, mobility, information access, or benefit navigation. [5]
  • PCs for People's service can absorb practical risk for users by reducing costs, restoring access, coordinating help, preventing loss, or making essential information easier to use. [6]
  • context PCs for People operates where ordinary users often face fragmented services, inaccessible formats, high search costs, gatekeeping, or limited practical alternatives. [7]
  • context PCs for People's core offering has direct practical utility for users, with integrity depending on accessibility, privacy, quality, cost, availability, and accountability. [8]
  • context PCs for People's scale or replicable model makes its service consequential beyond a single local provider or one-time product purchase. [9]
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
5 / 5

PCs for People operates where ordinary users often face fragmented services, inaccessible formats, high search costs, gatekeeping, or limited practical alternatives.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Under-known public-benefit service pass calibrated across benefits navigation, accessibility, caregiving, digital inclusion, reuse, repair, childcare, mobility, and open-data services.

Linked evidence
  • context PCs for People's public materials identify its ownership form, nonprofit status, platform status, public-benefit structure, or private company status in the internet category. [1]
  • context PCs for People's public materials indicate whether binding control sits with a nonprofit board, company managers, volunteers, members, public-service partners, or users. [2]
  • context PCs for People's public model determines whether the service primarily reduces user costs and friction or channels a public need through a proprietary platform. [3]
  • context PCs for People's public materials do not show ordinary workers or volunteers holding full binding democratic control over the organization. [4]
  • context PCs for People serves a public need linked to disability, poverty, medical bills, caregiving, childcare, repair, mobility, information access, or benefit navigation. [5]
  • context PCs for People's service can absorb practical risk for users by reducing costs, restoring access, coordinating help, preventing loss, or making essential information easier to use. [6]
  • PCs for People operates where ordinary users often face fragmented services, inaccessible formats, high search costs, gatekeeping, or limited practical alternatives. [7]
  • context PCs for People's core offering has direct practical utility for users, with integrity depending on accessibility, privacy, quality, cost, availability, and accountability. [8]
  • context PCs for People's scale or replicable model makes its service consequential beyond a single local provider or one-time product purchase. [9]
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
5 / 5

PCs for People's core offering has direct practical utility for users, with integrity depending on accessibility, privacy, quality, cost, availability, and accountability.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Under-known public-benefit service pass calibrated across benefits navigation, accessibility, caregiving, digital inclusion, reuse, repair, childcare, mobility, and open-data services.

Linked evidence
  • context PCs for People's public materials identify its ownership form, nonprofit status, platform status, public-benefit structure, or private company status in the internet category. [1]
  • context PCs for People's public materials indicate whether binding control sits with a nonprofit board, company managers, volunteers, members, public-service partners, or users. [2]
  • context PCs for People's public model determines whether the service primarily reduces user costs and friction or channels a public need through a proprietary platform. [3]
  • context PCs for People's public materials do not show ordinary workers or volunteers holding full binding democratic control over the organization. [4]
  • context PCs for People serves a public need linked to disability, poverty, medical bills, caregiving, childcare, repair, mobility, information access, or benefit navigation. [5]
  • context PCs for People's service can absorb practical risk for users by reducing costs, restoring access, coordinating help, preventing loss, or making essential information easier to use. [6]
  • context PCs for People operates where ordinary users often face fragmented services, inaccessible formats, high search costs, gatekeeping, or limited practical alternatives. [7]
  • PCs for People's core offering has direct practical utility for users, with integrity depending on accessibility, privacy, quality, cost, availability, and accountability. [8]
  • context PCs for People's scale or replicable model makes its service consequential beyond a single local provider or one-time product purchase. [9]
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
5 / 5

PCs for People's scale or replicable model makes its service consequential beyond a single local provider or one-time product purchase.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Under-known public-benefit service pass calibrated across benefits navigation, accessibility, caregiving, digital inclusion, reuse, repair, childcare, mobility, and open-data services.

Linked evidence
  • context PCs for People's public materials identify its ownership form, nonprofit status, platform status, public-benefit structure, or private company status in the internet category. [1]
  • context PCs for People's public materials indicate whether binding control sits with a nonprofit board, company managers, volunteers, members, public-service partners, or users. [2]
  • context PCs for People's public model determines whether the service primarily reduces user costs and friction or channels a public need through a proprietary platform. [3]
  • context PCs for People's public materials do not show ordinary workers or volunteers holding full binding democratic control over the organization. [4]
  • context PCs for People serves a public need linked to disability, poverty, medical bills, caregiving, childcare, repair, mobility, information access, or benefit navigation. [5]
  • context PCs for People's service can absorb practical risk for users by reducing costs, restoring access, coordinating help, preventing loss, or making essential information easier to use. [6]
  • context PCs for People operates where ordinary users often face fragmented services, inaccessible formats, high search costs, gatekeeping, or limited practical alternatives. [7]
  • context PCs for People's core offering has direct practical utility for users, with integrity depending on accessibility, privacy, quality, cost, availability, and accountability. [8]
  • PCs for People's scale or replicable model makes its service consequential beyond a single local provider or one-time product purchase. [9]

Penalties

Penalty Applied Why this penalty
Subscription Capture
?
Manipulative recurring-payment, automatic-renewal, cancellation-friction, bundling, trial-conversion, or refund designs that profit from inertia or confusion. Range: -5 to 0.
-1

PCs for People's public record makes Subscription Capture relevant through its accessibility model, pricing, public-benefit purpose, user vulnerability, data handling, environmental effects, or institutional accountability.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Under-known public-benefit service pass calibrated across benefits navigation, accessibility, caregiving, digital inclusion, reuse, repair, childcare, mobility, and open-data services.

Linked evidence
  • PCs for People's public record makes Subscription Capture relevant through its accessibility model, pricing, public-benefit purpose, user vulnerability, data handling, environmental effects, or institutional accountability. [12]

Bonus Credits

Bonus Credit Why this credit
Good Deal
?
Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
3 / 3

PCs for People's public record makes Good Deal relevant through its accessibility model, pricing, public-benefit purpose, user vulnerability, data handling, environmental effects, or institutional accountability.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Under-known public-benefit service pass calibrated across benefits navigation, accessibility, caregiving, digital inclusion, reuse, repair, childcare, mobility, and open-data services.

Linked evidence
  • PCs for People's public record makes Good Deal relevant through its accessibility model, pricing, public-benefit purpose, user vulnerability, data handling, environmental effects, or institutional accountability. [10]
Cost Transparency
?
Credit for clear posted prices, all-in fees, unit costs, public rate cards, margin/cost visibility, or surplus-allocation transparency, especially in markets where opaque quotes, hidden fees, or individualized pricing are normal.
2 / 3

PCs for People's public record makes Cost Transparency relevant through its accessibility model, pricing, public-benefit purpose, user vulnerability, data handling, environmental effects, or institutional accountability.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Under-known public-benefit service pass calibrated across benefits navigation, accessibility, caregiving, digital inclusion, reuse, repair, childcare, mobility, and open-data services.

Linked evidence
  • PCs for People's public record makes Cost Transparency relevant through its accessibility model, pricing, public-benefit purpose, user vulnerability, data handling, environmental effects, or institutional accountability. [11]

Confidence Basis

Confidence Basis

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

High 80/100

12 verified linked claims 12 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 12/12 components covered

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

Claim confidence 17/20

12 verified linked claims

Source quality 10/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 14/18

12 direct claims across 12 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 10/10

12/12 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceHigh 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.
1PCs for People's public materials identify its ownership form, nonprofit status, platform status, public-benefit structure, or private company status in the internet category.

Ownership Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

2PCs for People's public materials indicate whether binding control sits with a nonprofit board, company managers, volunteers, members, public-service partners, or users.

Governance Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

3PCs for People's public model determines whether the service primarily reduces user costs and friction or channels a public need through a proprietary platform.

Extraction Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

4PCs for People's public materials do not show ordinary workers or volunteers holding full binding democratic control over the organization.

Labor Sovereignty Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

5PCs for People serves a public need linked to disability, poverty, medical bills, caregiving, childcare, repair, mobility, information access, or benefit navigation.

Solidarity Unemployed Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

6PCs for People's service can absorb practical risk for users by reducing costs, restoring access, coordinating help, preventing loss, or making essential information easier to use.

Loss Bearing Fidelity Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

7PCs for People operates where ordinary users often face fragmented services, inaccessible formats, high search costs, gatekeeping, or limited practical alternatives.

Market Conduct Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

8PCs for People's core offering has direct practical utility for users, with integrity depending on accessibility, privacy, quality, cost, availability, and accountability.

Product Integrity Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

9PCs for People's scale or replicable model makes its service consequential beyond a single local provider or one-time product purchase.

Scale Integrity Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

10PCs for People's public record makes Good Deal relevant through its accessibility model, pricing, public-benefit purpose, user vulnerability, data handling, environmental effects, or institutional accountability.

Good Deal Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

11PCs for People's public record makes Cost Transparency relevant through its accessibility model, pricing, public-benefit purpose, user vulnerability, data handling, environmental effects, or institutional accountability.

Cost Transparency Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

12PCs for People's public record makes Subscription Capture relevant through its accessibility model, pricing, public-benefit purpose, user vulnerability, data handling, environmental effects, or institutional accountability.

Subscription Capture Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

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