boikot 🙅♀️
boikot is a community-led initiative to make data on company ethics transparent and accessible.
We are building a community-curated, transparent, freely accessible collection of corporate ethics records. By documenting ethical and unethical business practices, we aim to inform consumer choice, raise the cost of harmful business decisions, and incentivise companies to act responsibly in the public interest.
All of our services and data are offered free to the public under the terms of the GPL v3 licence. You can download our full companies dataset from the file called boikot.json above.
The main product being worked on is the boikot.xyz website which provides access to our data and tools to add new records to it. This is a react project in the site directory. There also some tools for collecting and summarising information in the scripts and backend directories.
MCP
We also have an MCP server that exposes a tool to lookup company ethics information. This is available from the URL https://mcp.boikot.xyz/mcp with no authentication needed. It provides one tool called lookup_company_information which takes one parameter company_name and returns information about the company's ethics.
the dataset
the boikot.json file is a database of the ethical and unethical practices of different companies. Each item in the "companies" object represents a company ethics record. Each of these items has a "names" areay containing names that can be used for the company, of which the first entry is the most commonly used name. They also have a "comment" string which is a comment on the ethics of the company, with sources denoted by numbers in square brackets eg. \[1\]\[2\]. The URLs for these sources are in the "sources" object which is a mapping from the source numbers to URLs. Each company also has tags in the "tags" array, which are strings that describe the company. Finally each company has a "logoUrl" and "siteUrl" which are URLs for the company's logo image and website. There is an "updatedAt" timestamp on each item to track when it was last updated.
run locally
You can run the website locally using the run.sh script in the repo root directory. It starts the web frontend and also a local backend which adds some extra functionalities.
links
Corporate Research site: https://www.corp-research.org/home-page
Impact of boycotts on McDonalds: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K9Uf3eUWKE8
UN BDS list https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session31/database-hrc3136/23-06-30-Update-israeli-settlement-opt-database-hrc3136.pdf
minimum wage list: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/over-500-companies-named-for-not-paying-minimum-wage
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/56-of-americans-stop-buying-from-brands-they-believe-are-unethical-300181141.html
