Worth measured by values lived.
A world in which every organisation, whether a coastal cooperative, a county supplier or a multinational, is judged on the values it actually lives, and doing good is the measure of doing well.
SALT Network · Open Data Platform
The values are not a fourth pillar.
They are inside the three.
Ten SALT values drive Environmental, Social and Governance reporting from within. They are auditable drivers, not decoration. This platform scores any organisation openly, and publishes the methodology.
E · Environmental
S · Social
G · Governance
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Why this platform exists
Make values auditable, open, and free to build on.
We score organisations against the ten SALT values embedded inside the E, S, and G pillars, publish the full method as open data, and expose it through a free API. Communities can see the truth, investors can fund it, and good work stops being a story and becomes a score.
The first value of this platform is integrity: every score and every word here is verifiable.
Research foundation
The breakout insisted the research be believable, grounded in science or principle. This platform is built on three tested theories of why an organisation is worth trusting.
Moral legitimacy theory
An organisation is judged by whether its conduct genuinely reflects the values it professes, not by outward appearances.
Research question: does a person working inside find the organisation's professed values reflected in how it actually behaves, or only displayed?
Pragmatic theory
Legitimacy is examined through how the organisation actually carries out its work, and whether practice matches promises.
Research question: is the theory implemented in how the organisation carries out its day-to-day work? Do practice and promise align?
Stakeholder theory
Holds stewardship, justice and the other SALT values, and accounts for all whose wellbeing depends on the organisation.
Research question: who is accounted for in decisions? Are stewardship, justice and the values operating for every stakeholder, not just shareholders?
The platform's scoring therefore claims to measure whether an organisation's values are professed (moral legitimacy), practised (pragmatic) and people-accountable (stakeholder).
The AI question, as the network asked it
A member asked: how sure can we be that our research is not an AI-generated solution, picked up from somewhere? AI can hallucinate and often tells you what you want to hear. The agreed practice is below.
Start with AI
Use AI as a first step in research, but ask it for the citations of where the information is coming from.
Then verify
It is then the researchers' work to go visit those places and look for the right information, directly.
Not AI only
There is information in books and other sources on value-driven topics. Google outlines the sites, then we research directly from those sites.
We still need people
AI can make a website quickly, but it cannot do a real backend properly. Human verification decides.
Does AI pass the pillars?
AI has positive and negative effects on the environment, on the social, and on governance we ask how much we are believing it. We keep asking: positive or negative, and should we move ahead with it?
The core idea
What “V-in-the-pillar” means
In most ESG work, a “values” dimension either disappears or sits as a fourth column. SALT’s model instead threads the ten values through E, S and G: each pillar is scored by the values that actually drive its material topics. The V stays small, and it supports every pillar.
Why it is auditable
Every score you see is the result of a published rule: pillar score = mean of its driving values on a scale from 0 to 5. The rules, definitions and vocabularies are open data below, and the API returns the method alongside the numbers.
Who it serves
Community enterprises built on values, investors tired of tick-box ESG, and professionals who want a language for “doing the right thing and measuring it.” That is the point of the SALT Network.
The ten values
Agreed at the 2026-09-24 SALT Network workshop. Hover or tap a value to read its definition.
Pillar map
Each pillar is driven by its values, and each pillar covers specific material topics.
Organisation scores pilot
Fictional pilot dataset. Every organisation shown is a made-up example used only to demonstrate the methodology. No real organisation has been assessed.
Open API
Everything on this page is available as JSON. It is free, CORS-open, and needs no key. Best to build on top of the same data this dashboard renders.
GET /api/methodology
The ten values, their definitions, pillar mapping and the scoring scale.
GET /api/organisations
Raw dataset of fictional pilots. An organisation profile plus per-value lens scores.
GET /api/organisations/scores
Computed result. The organisation overall plus per-pillar score on the published method.
Try it
curl https://SITE/api/organisations/scores