Privacy & Disclaimer

The PBC Index is an open, informational index of U.S. companies whose governance protects their mission. Nothing here is legal, financial, investment, or professional advice. Always confirm a company's current legal status from primary sources before relying on it.

Many entries are researched and classified automatically: a company name is searched against live web sources and a language model extracts and classifies its governance. This process can be incomplete, out of date, or wrong. An entry's appearance here is not confirmation of its legal status.

Each entry shows its sources and a verification status. Treat anything not marked “verified” with particular caution, and verify against primary records · SEC filings, a company's charter, or the B Lab directory.

We deliberately collect very little. There are no accounts and no logins.

• Lookups · the company names you search are stored so results can be cached and reused.
• Request metadata · your IP address is used transiently for rate-limiting and abuse prevention.
• Preferences · your light/dark theme choice is stored locally in your browser, not on our servers.
• Usage analytics · we use PostHog, a third-party analytics provider, to record aggregate usage such as pages viewed and searches run, so we can see what is useful and improve the site.

Beyond that product analytics, we do not run advertising trackers, and we do not sell your data.

When you research a company, your query and the public web text we retrieve are processed by service providers to produce a result:

• Exa · web search and content retrieval.
• Google (Vertex AI / Gemini) · classification and extraction.
• Google Firebase: the database that stores the index.
• Vercel · hosting and bot protection.

If your company is listed in error, or you would like an entry corrected or removed, contact William Zhu. Requests are reviewed promptly.