About
A neutral place to find local sellers.
Not a campaign, not a side, not a shopping club for one team. Just sourced information about where your food comes from.
Disclosr exists because of a pattern that's easy to spot on social media and hard to do anything useful about: shoppers deciding whether to buy from a local farm based on assumptions about the owner's politics, usually with nothing to back it up beyond a guess in a comment section.
That pattern isn't going away, and pretending it doesn't exist doesn't help anyone — the farmer who gets wrongly assumed to be one thing or another, or the shopper who wants real information and gets speculation instead. So instead of ignoring it, Disclosr tries to replace the guessing with something that's actually true.
What "neutral" means here
Neutral doesn't mean we have no opinions as people. It means the platform itself doesn't take a side, doesn't editorialize, and doesn't try to guess anyone's politics from a video, a comment, or a hunch. We don't publish a "this business leans left" or "this business leans right" label based on inference — ever. If a page shows you something about a business's public stance, it's because that business said it themselves, or because it's a matter of public record, cited and linked so you can check it yourself.
We'd rather build something smaller and honest than something bigger and wrong. A directory that guesses at people's politics is a directory that will eventually guess wrong about a real person's business — and get it wrong in public. That's not a risk we're willing to take with someone else's livelihood.
Why this is a public-good project, not a partisan one
The goal is simple: give people accurate, sourced information instead of speculation, so they can make their own decisions about where to shop. That's useful to shoppers of every political stripe, and it's fairer to the farmers and producers being talked about than an anonymous comment-section guess ever was. We're not trying to help one side "win" against the other — we're trying to take the guesswork out of a conversation that was already happening, whether we built this or not.
How the information is actually sourced
Every piece of information on Disclosr falls into one of three categories, and we never blend them together into a single ambiguous score:
- Verified record — a real public donation filing (FEC or state), shown and linked exactly as it appears in the public record.
- In their own words — a verbatim, linked quote of something a business has actually posted publicly. Never paraphrased, never summarized into a label.
- Self-reported — a verified business owner or employee's own statement about their own business, in their own words.
The full detail on how each of these works, including how we verify a business account before it goes live, is on the Methodology page.