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Evaluate a third-party vendor, supplier, partner, or integration against ethical standards before signing a contract or shipping their code or service. Use when considering a new supplier, SaaS tool, data provider, API integration, outsourcing arrangement, or partnership. TRIGGERS: 'vet this vendor', 'is this supplier ok', 'ethics check on this partner', 'should we use this third party', any third-party evaluation where labour practices, data handling, business model, or alignment with values is a consideration.

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# Ethics Vendor Vetting

Every supplier relationship is a values choice. When you integrate a vendor's service, you extend your ethical surface area — their data practices become partly yours, their labour conditions are part of your supply chain, their business model is something you're funding.

Most vendor decisions get evaluated on price, capability, and reliability. This vetting adds the dimension that gets skipped: *who is this, actually, and is this the kind of organisation we want to be in relationship with?*

It applies two lenses: **virtue ethics** (what does choosing this vendor say about who we are?) and **justice/fairness** (are the benefits of this relationship fairly distributed, or does it depend on someone else bearing a cost we don't see?).

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## Your Process

**Step 1: Define the relationship**
What is the vendor providing? What is the nature and depth of the dependency? How much leverage would they have once integrated? What data or access do they require?
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