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| G | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Adobe | A public creative-software company selling subscriptions and cloud tools, with cancellation enforcement, lock-in, and shareholder extraction concerns. Adobe remains weak because of subscription capture, ideological disavowal, and material opacity, even where the product or service has practical value. | public company | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Partial (AI) | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Basecamp | A private software company selling project-management and email tools, with durable products and concentrated founder governance. Basecamp remains weak because of person-dependent governance and ideological disavowal, even where the product or service has practical value. | private software company | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Partial (AI) | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | |||||
| G | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Microsoft | A public software, cloud, gaming, and AI company with durable platform power, high margins, lock-in concerns, and recent large workforce reductions. Microsoft remains weak because of youth capture and ideological disavowal, even where the product or service has practical value. | public company | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -7 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Nvidia | A public AI chip, GPU, and software-infrastructure company with exceptional margins, strategic compute power, supply-chain exposure, and energy-footprint concerns. Nvidia remains weak because of ecological harm and ideological disavowal, even where the product or service has practical value. | public company | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | -3 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | |||||
| G | No vegan or vegetarian badge | OpenAI | An AI company with a nonprofit-controlled corporate structure selling models, APIs, and ChatGPT, with concentrated governance, safety, labor, and platform-power questions. OpenAI remains weak because of person-dependent governance, documented human harm, and ecological harm, even where the product or service has practical value. | private company / nonprofit-controlled structure | Medium confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | -4 | 0 | -4 | -5 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | -2 | |||||
| G | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Oracle | A public enterprise software and cloud company with persistent licensing, audit, lock-in, procurement, and security-history concerns. Oracle remains weak because of documented human harm and ideological disavowal, even where the product or service has practical value. | public company | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Palantir Technologies | A public data analytics and AI platform company selling government and commercial surveillance infrastructure, with immigration-enforcement and civil-liberties concerns. Palantir Technologies scores low because of documented human harm, coercive violence, and surveillance capture, with extractive economics and centralized governance reinforcing the negative evaluation. | government data and surveillance software company | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -10 | -8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -3 | -5 | -3 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | RealPage | A rent-pricing software company selling landlord revenue-management tools, sued by DOJ over alleged algorithmic pricing conduct affecting renters. RealPage scores low because of documented human harm, ideological disavowal, and material opacity, with extractive economics and centralized governance reinforcing the negative evaluation. | rental pricing software company | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Partial (AI) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | -2 |