The compassTwo poles

One instrument. What is on the record, and where a door exists.

Neither half of this page is a verdict. Both are measures of how far we have got: what we have managed to classify, and what we have managed to map a way out of.

Away — what is documented

What we've classified so far

We have classified 645 of 4019 documented actions and reached 61 of 758 companies. 3374 actions and 697 companies are not classified yet. These counts measure how far we have got, not how much harm exists.

worker exploitation205205 documented actions across 29 companies
conflict profiteering127127 documented actions across 15 companies
environmental damage113113 documented actions across 19 companies
political influence9797 documented actions across 23 companies
monopoly abuse4848 documented actions across 13 companies
misleading claims4646 documented actions across 15 companies
surveillance2222 documented actions across 10 companies
discrimination1010 documented actions across 5 companies

A company appears high on this pole when we have done more reading about it. Nothing here ranks companies against each other, and nothing here is a finding of our own — each row counts records that a regulator, a court, a registry or a newsroom published first. Admitted conduct is recorded as admitted and alleged conduct as alleged, on the company’s own page.

Toward — where an exit is mapped

How many exits we have mapped, by plank

This counts exits we have mapped, one number per plank of the charter. It is not a rating, a ranking, a seal or a recommendation, and no business is named on this pole. We do not confer legitimacy on anyone.

Eat
exits mapped · 15 with a source
194

Groceries, food, drink. The deepest part of the map, because it is where the record is deepest.

Housed
exits mapped
0

Nothing here. Housing is not a category you can shop your way out of, so the map has nowhere to send you — this plank goes to the rules, not the wallet.

Safe
exits mapped · 0 with a source
10

Health and pharmacy. Thin, and honestly so.

Time
exits mapped · 4 with a source
78

Attention, subscriptions, connection. The exits here cost nothing and take an evening.

159 of 441 alternatives sit in categories we have not placed against a plank, and are counted in none of the four numbers above. Grouping a free-text category under a plank is our reading of that word, not a fact in the data.

The route these poles point along: the map → · Start from a receipt instead: you are here →

Both poles count our own work. The away pole counts records other people published and we have got around to classifying. The toward pole counts alternatives we have got around to mapping. Neither measures how much harm exists, and neither says a business is good. Where we hold no source, we show no name.