Company Value Generator
Generates a random example of a short, plain-spoken core company value — a starting point to adapt when drafting your own set of company values.
What this generator does
Draws a company value from a curated bank, for workshops on culture and values where a starting point beats a blank flipchart.
What you'll get
This generator draws from a hand-checked list of 28 entries. Here is a spread of 6 of them, so you can see the style before you generate:
- Honesty first, even when it's uncomfortable
- Say what you'll do, then do it
- Leave things better than you found them
- Make the right thing the easy thing
- Ask before assuming
- Measure what you claim
A fixed sample of the list, not a live draw — your own results are picked at random from all 28, without repeating until the list runs out. Original HEKNO-curated company value statements. Last reviewed 2026-09-03.
How to use this tool
- Press generate for a value statement.
- Adapt it to your own business, or generate again for another example.
Common use cases
- Drafting a company values list
- Team workshop discussions
- Brand or culture brainstorming
How this generator works
A figure is drawn within a band and formatted with the separators and abbreviations financial writing uses, so a valuation reads as £4.2m rather than 4200000. The bands are separated because a valuation's shape depends on its size: figures below a million are usually written in full, and above a billion they are almost always abbreviated.
Limitations and good to know
- A value picked at random is a prompt for discussion, not a value your organisation holds. The useful part is usually arguing about whether it fits.
- Fictional figures for mock-ups and worked examples. They describe no real company and rest on no method of valuation.
- A single figure is not a valuation. Real ones come with a date, a basis and a range, and the number alone is the least informative part.
- Abbreviations differ between markets — a billion has not always meant the same thing in British and American usage.
Entries are chosen with your browser's cryptographic random number generator, so every entry on the list is equally likely. How Generate Random works.