More Than Shopping: The Power of Our Membership
ESi begins with curated shopping, cashback, and investment — but true membership means more. As part of ESi, you gain a voice in the companies you consume from, the ability to channel profits into your community, the strength of collective protection as a consumer, and the power to influence business and policy at scale.
To Be Heard
Members take part in shareholder voting, surveys, and campaigns — turning spending power into real influence at the boardroom level.
Within ESi itself, we commit to consulting members directly, ensuring our direction reflects the values of our community.
This is corporate democracy in action: bringing democratic process into the companies we consume from and invest in.
Within ESi itself, we commit to consulting members directly, ensuring our direction reflects the values of our community.
This is corporate democracy in action: bringing democratic process into the companies we consume from and invest in.
Reality Check
- Your yearly consumption: $9 trillion
- Shareholding votes it gives you: 0
- Our goal: 1% spending → $90 billion in voting shares
ESi membership makes sure you are heard as consumers
Community Matters
We are all part of community. Many of our members don’t need extra income.
Instead, they can direct part of their profits toward their communities with vetted charitable projects that reflect their values — whether it’s capital, profits, or a fixed contribution.
ESi also dedicate part of its profits to maximize collective impact, ensuring our principles extend beyond markets into society.
Instead, they can direct part of their profits toward their communities with vetted charitable projects that reflect their values — whether it’s capital, profits, or a fixed contribution.
ESi also dedicate part of its profits to maximize collective impact, ensuring our principles extend beyond markets into society.
Reality Check
- Charitable in the US 2021: $484.85 billion
- In 2022: $471 billion → a drop of $13.85 billion
- Our Goal: 1% → $900 million to charity
ESi membership makes sure your consumption gives back to the communities.
Strength in Numbers
Alone, a consumer has no leverage. Complaints get ignored, policies don’t change, and corporations keep the upper hand.
As ESi members, you’re not alone. You’re part of a syndicate — consumers and investors acting together. From reviewing products and shaping ventures, to pushing back when standards fail, we move as one.
That unity is power. When corporations know we’re organized, they know we can shift both markets and ownership. One member’s issue becomes the syndicate’s cause.
As ESi members, you’re not alone. You’re part of a syndicate — consumers and investors acting together. From reviewing products and shaping ventures, to pushing back when standards fail, we move as one.
That unity is power. When corporations know we’re organized, they know we can shift both markets and ownership. One member’s issue becomes the syndicate’s cause.
Reality Check
- Ad fraud cost globally $84–100 billion in 2023.
- FTC sent warning letters to 670 companies
- Our Goal: Dedicate 1% of our budget to pursue companies for breach of contract,
ESi membership ensures fair treatment. And if not, the syndicate takes care of it.
Shopping for Change
As consumers and investors united, our influence begins the moment you shop. We harness the scale of spending and ownership into real voice — in markets, boardrooms, and policy halls.
Our strength comes from bargaining power. Acting together, we press for better cashback, stronger contract terms, and preferential entry into promising venture deals. Corporations know that ignoring us costs more than turning a blind eye.
We channel this power through principle — democracy, sustainability, and accountability. If a company or policy conflicts with those, they don’t lose us as consumers; they lose us as investors. That’s real influence in action.
Our strength comes from bargaining power. Acting together, we press for better cashback, stronger contract terms, and preferential entry into promising venture deals. Corporations know that ignoring us costs more than turning a blind eye.
We channel this power through principle — democracy, sustainability, and accountability. If a company or policy conflicts with those, they don’t lose us as consumers; they lose us as investors. That’s real influence in action.
Portfolio
- U.S. corporations spent $4.3 billion on lobbying
- Consumer groups spent less than $50 million
- Our Goal: 1% of cashback to lobbying $45M a year, doubling consumer-group influence
With ESi, consumers double their lobbying power
