Rank everyday choices by your own values.
Free, open tools that rank real things (coffee, banks, phone apps) on facts that show their sources. You decide what matters. No one can buy a spot at the top, and you can challenge any fact.
The sample is live, not a screenshot. Drag a slider and watch the list reorder, with nobody's thumb on the scale.
Adjust a priority and the list reorders at once, computed in your browser.
Every factor: weigh it yourself, learn what it measures
Each ? says what a factor measures and how to weigh it wisely. The guides go deeper: open the guides library →
Hard lines are vetoes, not weights. In the app an allergen or a boycott excludes an entry outright; it is never quietly down-weighted.
- 1Local roaster co-op79member disclosure · strong on fair pay
- 2Fairtrade supermarket line78Fairtrade Intl. · strong on fair pay
- 3Single-origin specialty71Open Food Facts · strong on gentle processing
- 4Global brand, house blend56company filing · strong on price
- 5Budget instant44Open Food Facts · strong on price
The method, in plain sight
A score is facts × your weights. Nothing hidden.
No black box, no proprietary ranking. Take the leader above: its number is the sourced facts, each multiplied by how much you said it matters, added up. Move a weight and you can watch exactly which fact moved the answer.
| Values | Factor | Source | Fact | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| You | Gentle processing | member disclosure | 88 | 20% |
| Overall | 79 |
Read the full method in plain language, or see how a correction with a source lands in the facts themselves.
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Three tools, one engine
Set your values once. A small file carries them into any of these, and each ranks its own world your way.
Conscious Consuming
Where to bank, eat, read, and give, scored on sourced facts, with plain guides for the hard calls.
Open the flagship → Learning demoKosplora
Where to learn: a map of courses, channels, and references, ranked by what you want out of learning.
Open → Messaging demoWhere to Message
Which messenger fits you on privacy, openness, and reach, from sourced facts alone.
Open →The civic tools
Five parts you keep as files, and what each promises
Not a platform that keeps you. Each is a plain file you can read, hand to someone, and challenge, and each is a page that works today.
A values file carries only weights, deal-breakers, and ranking preferences. No identity, no account.
See how it works → 02Group agreementConsent first: people bring their values files, dissent stays visible, and no server decides for the group.
Merge with consent → 03Fact repairSource before score: each correction is scoped, attributable, reversible, and tied to its source.
Correct a fact → 04Shared planCommit, not command: every action keeps its reason, its dissent, and the fact-file it was built on.
Act together → 05Ownership mapOwnership, alternatives, and look-alike choices are inspectable claims with receipts or clear computed labels.
Inspect the map →How it stays honest
The lines it will not cross
These are not features. They are the promise, and crossing any one of them makes it no longer this thing.
Promises are cheap, so here is one that costs something. Where the evidence is thin, we award nothing and say so in public: 220 measures are published as withheld, next to the 329 that earned a top mark. That list is the work we owe you, in the open, where leaving it undone has a price.
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Make a decision clearer
Correct a fact with a source, or build the next subject area from a facts file, a design, and the shared engine. Read the adoption guide before code, then share what happened after real use. A movement here is just a folder of files, so a household, congregation, or co-op can find common ground and act, with no center anyone can capture.
Bentley’s summary, kept verbatim: Values Commons is an evolving backend for decentralized personalization and customization of digital, civic tools like other nodes of the Futurism Institute.
This is one part of a larger argument: that facts, machines, and people all need someone accountable behind them, and that the someone is a community. The whole design, including where this tool sits in it, is at the Futurism Institute.