Every value published by the 465 of 721 technology companies checked that publish a list: 2,336 values, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0.
| Table | Rows | CSV | JSON |
|---|---|---|---|
| companies | 721 | CSV (94 KB) | JSON |
| values | 2,336 | CSV (431 KB) | JSON |
| concepts | 48 | CSV (1 KB) | JSON |
| releases | 1 | CSV (0 KB) | JSON |
The schema, the licence and the citation are in datapackage.json, a Frictionless Data Package. A release never changes once published: corrections go in the next one. /data/latest/ always points at the newest.
Stach, J. (2026). Values explorer: what technology companies say they value (release 2026.10) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23189168. CC BY 4.0.
CC BY 4.0 covers the selection of companies, the structure, the concept coding and the metadata. The value wordings are short quotations of the companies' own public pages; they remain the companies', each row links to its source, and the licence makes no claim over them.
721 English-language technology companies, read between 2026-08-16 and 2026-10-04. It is not a sample of the market. 408 of the companies (57%) came from a corpus of product and design job adverts collected by the author; the rest were drawn from 21 named lists (index constituents, the Y Combinator directory, Wikidata and a few hand-picked lists), each recorded per company in the frame column. Companies that publish no values list are included, so the rate of publishing is part of the data: 465 of 721 publish one.
| Obtained | Meaning | Companies |
|---|---|---|
| scraped-verified | every value found word for word on the cited page | 102 |
| scraped-no-list | the scrape found no values list; accepted as publishing none | 191 |
| scraped-reviewed | the scrape was held and a person decided what to record | 13 |
| hand-read | read from the company's own page by a person | 23 |
| hand-corrected | an earlier recording corrected by a person against the page | 15 |
| submitted | came through the submit form and was reviewed before acceptance | 6 |
| seed-hand | collected by a person in August 2026, before the verbatim check; may paraphrase | 371 |
Concepts are one person's coding. Each value carries one concept, assigned by ordered rules with hand-coded corrections on top; coded_by says which. Nobody else has checked the coding, and 128 values match no concept.
Two standards of evidence. Rows marked seed-hand were collected by a person before every value was checked word for word against its page, and some paraphrase it; their date_read is the date they were recorded. Later rows passed that check or were read by hand from the page.
Size bands are coarse. Headcount is published only as 1-50, 51-500, 501-5000 or 5001+, read by hand at collection time.
This is what companies say, not what they do. A values page is a published claim; nothing here measures whether it holds.
| Release | Date | Checked | Publishing | Values | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026.10 | 2026-10-06 | 721 | 465 | 2,336 | First release: 721 companies checked, collected August to October 2026. |
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