Really nice project!

It will be intresing an automation that check online for word like “worker cooperative”, “worker-owned” to find new candidate that fit.

Ofc the hard part is confirming if it's genuinely worker-owned, so keeping that step human makes sense. But the discovery/shortlisting could be largely automated crawl the web, score candidates by how many co-op signals they hit, and present the top ones for you to vet.

Would be happy to help prototype something like this if you're interested (i really like your idea).