Your business has values.

Do your software subscriptions support or undermine them?

HumaneLens scores the tools powering your business across nine ethical categories, so you can make informed choices that uphold your values. It's a free, growing database, shaped by you and your feedback.
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Is Your Business Software Ethical? 

The tools you use to run your business are not neutral. Every subscription feeds into ownership structures, investment portfolios, and political systems that most businesses have never been asked to examine.

The question is not whether you are to blame. It is whether reliance removes responsibility. HumaneLens helps you find out, and do something about it.

The Nine Lenses

1
Conflict & Accountability
Flags direct or inherited ties to war, surveillance, or occupation. This includes companies whose technology is used in active conflict or on illegally occupied land, as well as ties through hosting providers, investors, or key partners.
2
Data, Privacy & Sovereignty 
Examines how user data is collected, stored, and governed. Looks at consent, transparency, encryption, and whether users retain control over where their data lives.
3
Autonomy, Freedom & Surveillance 
Measures how much control users keep over their tools and data. Flags systems that enable surveillance, lock-in, or dependency on centralised platforms. Rewards products that allow self-hosting or easy exit.
4
Climate & Environmental Justice
Examines energy use, emissions, and environmental reporting. Rewards companies that use renewable power, publish impact data, and avoid extractive or polluting practices.
5
Human Rights & Labour Practices
Assesses how the company treats workers across its operations and supply chain. Covers fair pay, freedom of association, and due diligence on partner conduct.
6
Indigenous Land, Culture & Community Rights
Looks for respect of Indigenous sovereignty, culture, and consent in physical and digital operations. Flags use of Indigenous data, land, or knowledge without Free, Prior and Informed Consent.
7
Gender & Racial Equity
Assesses representation, pay equity, and anti-bias measures across the company and its products. Looks for leadership diversity and transparent equity reporting.
8
Open Tech & Digital Commons
Rates the openness of code, interoperability, and contribution to shared digital infrastructure. Values transparent licensing and collaboration with open-source or public-interest projects.
9
Accessibility & Usability
Evaluates whether products work for diverse users. Checks compliance with accessibility standards and usability across languages, devices, bandwidths, and abilities.

How We Score Ethical Risk

Each tool is scored across nine ethical lenses. Scores run from 1 at high risk to 5 at best practice. Every entry also carries a median ethical rating and a quick-reference flag indicating direct, indirect, or no ties to genocide.

About HumaneLens

HumaneLens began as a practical question.

When KHANDID.STUDIO and Zebra Growth started examining their own tech stacks, they found their everyday tools were indirectly linked to the genocide in Gaza. So they started researching alternatives, documenting what they found, and sharing it.

What began as a small act of decoupling grew into a database. Feedback from a wider survey showed that conflict was not the only concern. Businesses needed a fuller picture. That led to nine ethical lenses, a scoring system grounded in evidence, and a tool anyone can use for free.

HumaneLens is not a finished product. It is a growing body of work, built by people who believe that where your money goes is a values decision.


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Help us grow HumaneLens.Tech

HumaneLens is a volunteer-led, open-source project.


We are looking for:

Researchers and editors to help populate and review the database.

Collaborators working on similar tools, so we avoid duplicating effort.

Funding to develop the database into a full application.

Have feedback or suggestions? We want to know.

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