Radix Printing & Publishing Cooperative

worker-owned union print shop and publisher

Radix Printing & Publishing Cooperative

Industry Services

A Brooklyn worker-owned, union print shop and publisher. Radix is one of the strongest custom-printing alternatives in this pass because ownership, governance, labor, and eco-printing claims point toward direct accountability rather than platform intermediation.

Why this matters: Radix gives merch and print buyers a structurally different option from investor-backed POD platforms: a small worker-owned union shop with direct service and ecological printing commitments.

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

Final Score 55* A - Good
AGOOD55 tentative score pts

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

Base Material56
Bonus+0
Cap66No structure cap
After Cap56
Penalties-1
b
Small business context

This entry is classified as a small business using observable scale signals: independent control, local or limited operations, and no evidence of public-company or national-chain scale. The small-business calibration keeps the ordinary rubric but reads evidence at person scale: living-wage pricing is not extraction by itself, while worker and contractor treatment, owner surplus, transparency, advertising pressure, dissent tolerance, and recourse matter more. Harm, toxicity, surveillance, labor, coercion, opacity, and hidden-parent penalties are not relaxed.

Applied cap: No structure cap

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Evaluation Overview

A - Good

The score turns mainly on Ownership, with the largest penalty coming from Ecological Harm.

Strengths

  • Ownership10/10
  • Governance9/10
  • Extraction8/10

Penalties

  • Ecological Harm-1

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
  • Linked claims10
  • Direct axis claims10
  • Coverage10/10

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

The linked record identifies On Ownership, the relevant fact is: Radix as a worker-owned and operated union print shop and publisher.

Linked evidence
  • Radix describes itself as a worker-owned and operated union print shop and publisher. [1]
Governance
?
Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
9 / 10

On Governance, the relevant fact is: Radix says it operates as a democratic business with no hierarchy and no bosses.

Linked evidence
  • Radix says it operates as a democratic business with no hierarchy and no bosses. [2]
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
8 / 10

On Extraction, the relevant fact is: Radix's worker-owned cooperative structure routes control and surplus toward worker-members rather than outside platform investors.

Linked evidence
  • Radix's worker-owned cooperative structure routes control and surplus toward worker-members rather than outside platform investors. [3]
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.
7 / 7

On Labor Sovereignty, the relevant fact is: Radix says it is unionized with Local 1 of the Amalgamated Lithographers Union / International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Linked evidence
  • Radix says it is unionized with Local 1 of the Amalgamated Lithographers Union / International Brotherhood of Teamsters. [4]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
?
Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
5 / 7

On Solidarity with the Unemployed, the relevant fact is: Radix grew from worker-cooperative and social-justice print-shop roots and serves community, creative, and movement print needs.

Linked evidence
  • Radix grew from worker-cooperative and social-justice print-shop roots and serves community, creative, and movement print needs. [5]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
5 / 7

On Loss-Bearing Fidelity, the relevant fact is: Radix's small cooperative structure binds business risk and decision-making more closely to the workers doing the printing.

Linked evidence
  • Radix's small cooperative structure binds business risk and decision-making more closely to the workers doing the printing. [6]
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
4 / 5

On Market Conduct, the relevant fact is: Radix offers direct print and design services rather than a platform that intermediates anonymous third-party production.

Linked evidence
  • Radix offers direct print and design services rather than a platform that intermediates anonymous third-party production. [7]
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
4 / 5

On Product Integrity, the relevant fact is: Radix lists offset, letterpress, digital, and wide-format printing plus eco-friendly practices such as recycled paper and low-VOC inks.

Linked evidence
  • Radix lists offset, letterpress, digital, and wide-format printing plus eco-friendly practices such as recycled paper and low-VOC inks. [8]
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
4 / 5

On Scale Integrity, the relevant fact is: Radix remains a small, directly accountable cooperative print shop rather than scaling through investor-controlled platform aggregation.

Linked evidence
  • Radix remains a small, directly accountable cooperative print shop rather than scaling through investor-controlled platform aggregation. [9]

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.
-1

On Ecological Harm, the cited fact is: Radix still produces physical printed goods, but its official materials emphasize recycled paper, low-VOC inks, and alcohol-free dampening systems.

Linked evidence
  • Radix still produces physical printed goods, but its official materials emphasize recycled paper, low-VOC inks, and alcohol-free dampening systems. [10]

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.

High 90/100

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

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

Claim confidence 19/20

10 verified linked claims

Source quality 18/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 14/18

10 direct claims across 10 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: June 5, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 10/10

10/10 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.
1Radix describes itself as a worker-owned and operated union print shop and publisher.

Ownership Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

2Radix says it operates as a democratic business with no hierarchy and no bosses.

Governance Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

3Radix's worker-owned cooperative structure routes control and surplus toward worker-members rather than outside platform investors.

Extraction Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

4Radix says it is unionized with Local 1 of the Amalgamated Lithographers Union / International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

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

AI scaffold

5Radix grew from worker-cooperative and social-justice print-shop roots and serves community, creative, and movement print needs.

Solidarity Unemployed Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

6Radix's small cooperative structure binds business risk and decision-making more closely to the workers doing the printing.

Loss Bearing Fidelity Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

7Radix offers direct print and design services rather than a platform that intermediates anonymous third-party production.

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

AI scaffold

8Radix lists offset, letterpress, digital, and wide-format printing plus eco-friendly practices such as recycled paper and low-VOC inks.

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

AI scaffold

9Radix remains a small, directly accountable cooperative print shop rather than scaling through investor-controlled platform aggregation.

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

AI scaffold

10Radix still produces physical printed goods, but its official materials emphasize recycled paper, low-VOC inks, and alcohol-free dampening systems.

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

AI scaffold

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