What ESG ratings won't tell you
Independent ethics research on 5,500+ public companies. Scored across 11 dimensions from court filings, regulatory actions, and investigative reporting — primary sources ratings don't use. Every claim cited.
5,540 companies · 11 dimensions · 179 evidence-sourced KPIs · Free to search
Counts rendered from the live database.
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What we find that ESG ratings miss
These are real scores from our database. Real companies, real contradictions, real sources.
Scores are read from the same database the search serves.
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Built on evidence, not disclosure
ESG ratings ask companies to grade themselves. We use adversarial sources — the kind companies can't edit or suppress.
The scoring manual is public.
179 KPIs across 11 dimensions. Five-tier rubrics per KPI. Scores run -100 to +100; neutral is 0. Each score blends a business-model pass and a behavioural-evidence pass. Where evidence is insufficient, a dimension returns N/A rather than a guess.
11 dimensions. Not 1 blended number.
A single ESG score hides more than it reveals. We score companies separately on each dimension — so you can see exactly where the problems are.
Click any dimension to see what we measure and why it matters.
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Bespoke research and data licensing.
The same evidence base, applied to a brief.
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Single-company deep dives, sector screens, supply-chain integrity checks. Every finding cited to a primary source — court filings, regulatory actions, investigative reporting. Two analysts. Fixed fee, agreed before work starts. Describe the mandate; we reply with scope and a quote.
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The full dataset: 5,540 companies, 11 dimensions, evidence-linked records. API or file delivery. Licensing and redistribution terms on inquiry.
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Who uses the research.
The same records. Four uses.
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Check the companies you hold. Read the evidence. Follow every citation to its source.
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Answer client questions with cited evidence. Every score links to the filings and reporting behind it.
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Adversarial conduct data across 11 dimensions. API or file delivery. Point-in-time history.
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Comparative ethics research, published openly. Every company named links to its full record.
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5,540 companies scored across 11 ethical dimensions. Every claim cited. Free to search.
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