JUST Capital Launches Stakeholder Benchmarking Platform
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JUST Capital, among the world’s leading advocates of stakeholder capitalism principles, launches a new tool for Russell 1000 companies seeking to understand how their companies measure up on the issues Americans care most about and identify new ways to drive long-term business value.Designed Specifically for Russell 1000 Management
The Process and Benefits
JUST Intelligence is a stakeholder performance analytics platform built by JUST Capital to evaluate and benchmark companies within the Russell 1000 — America’s 1,000 largest publicly traded corporations. The service is specifically designed for and only accessible to management at the companies in the Russell 1000.
Drawing on more than a decade of public opinion research and corporate performance data, the platform is designed to help executives understand how their companies measure up on the issues Americans care about most — and where strategic improvements can drive long-term business value.
Designed Specifically for Russell 1000 Management
JUST Intelligence is not a general-purpose ESG software tool, the organization stresses. It is a structured benchmarking and analytics platform exclusively covering companies within JUST Capital’s research universe — the Russell 1000. For those companies, the platform reportedly transforms public priorities and objective corporate data into decision-grade insights. It enables executives, board members, investor relations teams, sustainability leaders, and strategy professionals to see how their company performs relative to peers and public expectations across key stakeholder issues. JUST Intelligence was built to answer a focused strategic question:
How does the company perform — and compete — on the stakeholder issues that matter most to Americans?
The Process and Benefits
JUST Intelligence delivers structured, comparative insights based on two core inputs:
- Annual polling of the American public to determine the issues people believe companies should prioritize.
- Objective corporate performance data across those ranked issues. Within that framework, users can access:
1. Stakeholder Performance Scores. Companies receive scores across major issue categories such as:
- Worker pay and treatment
- Benefits and job quality
- Customer treatment
- Community impact
- Environmental practices
- Corporate governance and ethics
2. Peer Benchmarking. Users can compare their company directly against:
- Industry peers
- Custom comparison groups
- Overall Russell 1000 performance
3. Issue-Level Analysis. The platform breaks performance down by specific issues — for example:
- Pay equity
- Workforce diversity
- Carbon emissions
- Data privacy
- Supply chain practices
4. Leading Practices Insights. Companies can explore what higher-performing peers are doing differently, offering a roadmap for improvement grounded in measurable outcomes.
The strategic benefit for Russell 1000 companies. JUST Capital says that for companies within the Russell 1000, JUST Intelligence provides several tangible advantages:
- Clarity on public expectations. Executives gain direct visibility into what Americans believe companies should prioritize — removing guesswork from stakeholder strategy.
- Competitive benchmarking. Leaders can see how they stack up against competitors in areas that increasingly influence reputation, investor confidence, and employee engagement.
- Risk identification. Underperformance on high-priority public issues can signal reputational, regulatory, or talent-related risks. The platform helps surface those vulnerabilities early.
- Strategic resource allocation. By identifying which issues matter most — and where performance gaps exist — companies can prioritize investments where they will deliver both societal and business returns.
- Board-ready insights. Because the framework is data-driven and comparative, it supports board-level conversations around stakeholder performance and long-term value creation.
JUST Intelligence is available only for companies within JUST Capital’s tracked universe — the Russell 1000. It does not function as a customizable ESG analytics tool for companies outside that group, nor does it allow users to upload independent company data for analysis.
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