Fair, with Proof
Compliance as a byproduct of how money moves.
Just Supply is a software platform with four parts, built in Australia. A tonne of cocoa, a night shift, a container of prawns: whatever moved, the rail records it, and the money that paid for it lands on the same ledger, where no single party can quietly correct it. So the record is not evidence about what happened. It is what happened.
What Just Supply is
Three of the four parts are finished and deploy today: an anonymous worker census, an anonymous grievance channel, and an assessment engine that runs inside your own environment. The fourth is a payment rail, and it is what the other three exist to feed. The rail is designed to end up owned by the workers and producers on it.
The problem
The value stops before it reaches the people doing the work.
The people who grow, catch, pick, build and clean capture a tiny slice of what a chain is worth, and have no say in how any of it works. Certifiers, scorecards and social audits check a company's claims from the outside, after the fact, on paper. That produces certificates. It does not move money or power.
The idea
Replace the plumbing from inside.
Put a chain's payments on a rail that records them at every step, from the farm gate or the night shift through to the retail shelf, and the audit becomes unnecessary: the record already says. Then hand the rail to the people on it, through cooperatives, with workers and producers holding the most voting weight by design. Compliance becomes a byproduct of how money moves. Fairness becomes a matter of who owns the rail.
Which chains
A supply chain system, proving itself in cocoa.
Cocoa is where it proves itself, chosen because it is one of the hardest: informal tiers, a smallholder origin, four jurisdictions to cross before a shelf. The rail counts a unit of work against the money paid for it, and that arithmetic does not care what the unit is: a kilogram in a commodity chain, an hour in a labour chain, and most real chains are both. We are looking for chains in any of these that want change big enough to show up in the numbers.
Run the same four checks over a cocoa lot and a labour-hire shift block ›
First deployments
We are setting up the first deployments now.
All four parts are written and working, so what is left for any organisation is configuration: your sites, your languages, your service levels, the channel your team already watches. That is weeks of setup, not a build. The order below is how it usually goes, and you can stop at any point in it and still have something worth having.
Start here
Worker voice
Counted and Heard go up on the wall and run from day one. Posters at your sites, questions in your workers' languages, cases landing in your queue. Neither is sector-specific and neither waits on anything else.
Then
The assessment
Proof reads the documents you already hold and turns them into per-criterion findings with an audit log behind each one, inside your own environment. An independent validation study is under way.
As the chain joins
The rail
Payments start settling on the ledger and the fourth record arrives, which is when all four records begin reconciling against each other. Each country brings its own banking approvals, so this one moves chain by chain.
The four parts
One platform, four parts.
Three of the four parts produce records. Proof reads those three alongside the documents you already hold: four records in all, on separate data stores answering to different people, so they can disagree, and the disagreement is the most informative thing the system produces.
What the money did
The payment rail
Volume, value, wages and timing reconciled at every handover, per lot in a goods chain or per shift block in a labour chain.
Run a job through it ›
What the many say
Counted
An anonymous worker census. A QR poster, eight minutes, the eleven International Labour Organization forced-labour indicators, no name and no account. Anyone on the site can answer, and pass it on.
See what Counted does ›
What the one says
Heard
An anonymous grievance channel. Four words let a worker come back and track the case through to resolution, without ever being identified.
See what Heard does ›Weighing the evidence
Proof and the Index
Reads all four records, the rail, Counted, Heard and the documents you already hold, and produces a per-criterion assessment with the evidence attached. Published, it is the Index.
How the assessment works ›The mechanism
A levy priced by conduct.
Every transaction on the rail pays a small fee, and where a company sits in the Index sets the rate, so good behaviour is literally cheaper. Leading is an absolute standard with no cap on how many reach it. Never being assessed is the most expensive option, and levy from the bottom two tiers is routed back to the cooperative at the origin of the chain.
Ownership
The people with the least power today hold the most votes.
A federation of five link cooperatives, one for each tier of a chain, with voting weight following member numbers on a log scale. That puts the largest blocs with workers and producers. Worker voice in this field is usually symbolic. Here they are not consulted. They vote.
Integrity rests on adversarial mechanics
If a trader fakes a payment record, or a sub-contractor bills hours nobody worked, the buyer above them inherits a claim it cannot support, and that lands on its own Index score. At the origin, where the work is done, protection comes instead from worker-controlled data and the workers' voting majority.
Ready now
Three records deliver a full assessment today.
Your documents, an anonymous census and a grievance channel produce a per supplier risk register, a draft annual reporting template and a grievance mechanism upgrade path. That is a complete first engagement, and it starts now. When the rail reaches your chain it adds the fourth record, and everything built in the first engagement carries straight into it.
Start with the records you already have
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Where the software stops and a person starts
- A flag tells you where to look. The rail names the leg and the week the numbers stopped adding up. Someone still has to go and find out why, and the job of the platform is to tell them exactly where.
- The poster decides the reach. Counted reaches whoever is standing at it, and whoever they pass it on to. There is no list to be on, so labour-hire crews and day labour answer on the same terms as anyone else. Where the posters go is a decision your team makes.
- Proof writes the first draft. You sign it. It reads your documents and produces the report; you correct it and put your name to it before it goes to anyone. An independent study is testing the accuracy of the drafting.