Last updated: July 2026

Corporate accountability work runs on information: who owns what, where goods are made, which suppliers carry which risks, and whether companies are living up to their commitments. A growing number of free tools for corporate accountability exist to help answer those questions. The problem is that they are scattered across dozens of organizations and websites, and the people who would benefit from them most may not even know they exist.

We decided to collaborate with our colleagues at Wikirate to make these tools more visible.

As open data organizations, we took an open data approach to this problem and crowdsourced building a solution by asking you, our communities: what are the free tools you rely on for corporate accountability work? Civil society organizations, researchers, and practitioners around the world shared the resources they turn to every day, creating this list of 39 community-vetted tools organized into 11 categories so you can quickly find what you need.

What’s inside the resource bank

Every tool in the bank is free to use. A handful offer paid tiers for advanced features. Below is a category-by-category look at what’s included — see the full Corporate Accountability Resource Bank for all 39 tools, filterable by category, sector, geographic scope, and resource type.

Supply chain mapping & tracing

Tools for tracing where goods are made and who’s connected to each location.

• Open Supply Hub — an open, searchable map of more than 2.5 million production locations worldwide, with standardized facility data across sectors.
• Supply Trace — an open-access platform combining trade data and on-the-ground research to surface forced-labor risk in global supply chains.
• Trase — maps agricultural commodity supply chains (soy, cattle, palm oil) from production regions to traders and importers.
• Import Yeti — a free, searchable database of US customs shipment records for identifying suppliers and tracing import relationships.

Risk identification & due diligence

Tools for screening companies, products, and regions for human-rights, labor, and environmental risk.

• CSR Risk Check — a quick overview of CSR, human-rights, and environmental risks by country and product, with guidance on next steps.
• ARA:Topline — an interactive tool to identify and prioritize forced-labor and child-labor risks by product and country.
• EU Due Diligence Navigator — the European Commission’s overview of EU due-diligence requirements (CSDDD) for partner countries.
• DiliCHANCE — a directory and review platform for due-diligence tools, focused on mineral value chains.

Worker voice, grievance & remediation

Guidance for building effective remediation channels for migrant and supply chain workers.

• IOM’s Operational Guidelines and companion Handbook for Businesses on Remediation of Migrant Worker Grievances — step-by-step guidance and conceptual grounding for remediation programs.
• The Counter (SOMO) — a free helpdesk for activists and journalists researching company ownership, supply chains, and operations.

Responsible recruitment & migrant worker rights

• IOM Migrant Worker Guidelines for Employers — practical guidance on recruiting and employing international workers ethically.
• IOM Fair and Ethical Recruitment Due Diligence Toolkit — risk assessment, self-assessment, and monitoring tools aligned with the UNGPs and OECD Guidance.
• IOM’s free e-course on managing fair and ethical recruitment of migrant workers.

Chemical safety & safer materials

Resources from the Clean Electronics Production Network (CEPN) for reducing hazardous-chemical use in manufacturing.

• CEPN Priority Chemicals — a prioritized list of process chemicals for elimination or substitution.
• CEPN Worker Survey on Chemical Safety — a 24-question survey tool for assessing worker awareness and training.
• CEPN Guide to Safer Alternatives in Electronics Manufacturing — a hub of certified safer-chemical alternatives.

Wages & living income

• WageIndicator — freely accessible living-wage estimates for more than 165 countries, updated annually.

Environmental & climate data

• Climate TRACE — an open inventory of greenhouse-gas emissions tracking millions of individual facilities worldwide.
• Global Forest Watch — near-real-time satellite data on deforestation and land use.
• WWF Risk Filter Suite — screens nature-related risks across operations, supply chains, and investments.

Corporate & ownership data

• OpenCorporates — the largest open database of legal corporate entities: 235 million+ companies across 140+ jurisdictions.
• OpenOwnership — beneficial-ownership data and the open Beneficial Ownership Data Standard.
• OpenSanctions — an open, international database of sanctioned and politically exposed persons and entities.
• WikiRate, including the linked Fashion Checker project — a community-powered open ESG data platform.

Advocacy, messaging & investigative resources

• ILO Decent Work in Supply Chains Evidence Hub — an AI-powered tool synthesizing 500+ ILO publications into accessible evidence summaries.
• Tactical Tech Resources — investigative tools and datasets, including the “Exposing the Invisible” project.
• Responsible Contracting Project (RCP) Toolkit — open-source model contract clauses and implementation guidance for responsible sourcing.

Allegation & litigation tracking

• Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) — an open-access hub tracking human-rights allegations for 20,000+ companies, including companies’ own responses.

Benchmarks & corporate scorecards

• KnowTheChain — benchmarks major ICT, food & beverage, and apparel & footwear companies on efforts to address forced labor.
• WBA Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB) — assesses roughly 100 of the world’s largest high-risk companies on human-rights commitments and performance.
• Fashion Transparency Index — ranks 200–250 of the world’s largest fashion brands on public disclosure of human-rights and environmental practices.

We know this list is incomplete

New tools launch all the time, and the best resource for a given task is often one we haven’t heard of yet. If you use a free tool for corporate accountability that isn’t listed here, submit it through our tool intake form and we’ll review it for inclusion.

Thank you to all the organizations and individuals who have contributed to the resource bank.

Frequently asked questions

What counts as a “corporate accountability tool”? In this resource bank, that means any free tool that helps practitioners answer questions about corporate behavior: who owns a company, where its goods are made, which suppliers carry labor or environmental risk, and whether a company is meeting its public commitments. That spans supply chain maps, due-diligence checklists, chemical-safety databases, ownership registries, benchmarks, and investigative resources.

Are all 39 tools really free? Yes. Every tool in the bank is free to use for its core functionality. Some offer optional paid tiers for advanced features (bulk data access, API calls, premium support). Those are noted in the full resource bank.

How often is the resource bank updated? We review and add to it on an ongoing basis as the community submits new tools. Check the “last updated” date at the top of this post, and use the submission form above to flag anything missing.

Who built this? Open Supply Hub and Wikirate, based on submissions from civil society organizations, researchers, and practitioners who use these tools in their day-to-day corporate accountability work.

About Wikirate & OS Hub

Wikirate is a Berlin-based nonprofit and open data platform where a global community of civil society organizations and advocates collects and structures data on companies’ social and environmental impacts to make it accessible, comparable, and free for all.

Open Supply Hub is a non-profit platform powering the transition to safe and sustainable production, with the world’s most complete, open and accessible global supply chain map. With our users, we have mapped more than 2.5 million production locations around the world, showing where global production is happening and who is connected to each location.

Both organizations have spent years working at the infrastructure layer of corporate accountability, building the open data commons that practitioners depend on. We share a view that equitable access to quality tools is inseparable from the accountability work those tools support.