B Corp Certification

What is B Corp certification?

B Corp certification is a verification awarded by the nonprofit B Lab to companies that meet a high bar on social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. It is not self-declared. A company has to pass the B Impact Assessment, score above a set threshold, and open its operations to scrutiny across governance, workers, community, environment, and customers.

The distinction that matters is between "B Corp" and the loose language of "sustainable" or "purpose-driven" that any company can use without proof. B Corp is audited. Certification expires and has to be earned again every three years against standards that keep rising. Companies also amend their legal structure to commit to considering all stakeholders, not only shareholders. Patagonia and Danone's North American arm are among the better-known names that have gone through it, which signals the range of businesses the standard applies to.

The assessment is demanding on purpose. Most companies that start it do not pass on the first try. That is the point. A certification anyone could get would verify nothing.

B Corp certification at Dallonses

Dallonses is a certified B Corp. We went through the assessment, scored above the threshold, and changed our governing documents to bake stakeholder consideration into how decisions get made. The certification shapes real choices, from how we pay people to which projects we take and how we run the infrastructure behind the software we build.

It also keeps us honest with clients. When we run sustainable tech consulting work, we are applying the same scrutiny to your systems that B Lab applies to ours. We would rather show measurable progress than wave a badge around. Certification is a floor we have to keep clearing, not a trophy on the wall, and that is exactly why we find it useful.

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