Proof, a public record of observable findings
Four records that bring the evidence together.
Proof reads the rail, Counted, Heard and Declared together and gives a company a tier, with the evidence behind every line. The four records are kept apart on purpose: separate data stores, answering to different people, none able to quietly correct another.
What gets published is the tier and the reasons for it. The records it was read from stay with you.
Try it
Flag a record and see what the combination means.
Each card is an independent source. Click one to flag it and see what the combination means. Counted has a third state, no coverage, for sites where no census is running.
All four records agree
Four records from four sources that cannot correct each other, all saying the same thing. This is the only combination that supports the strongest claim, and it is worth 0.10% instead of 0.35%.
The engine
Proof reads all four and attaches the evidence.
Three modules, hosted in Sydney. Proof drafts. You own it, review it and sign it.
Documentary assessment
Checks a company's claims against its own procurement records, contracts and policies, criterion by criterion, with the evidence shown beside each rating.
Worker voice aggregator
Brings Counted and existing platforms such as the Cleaning Accountability Framework, Better Work and Issara into one surface, and routes worker voice into the fields that need it.
Grievance mechanism evaluation
Tests how a company handles workers' complaints, Heard among them, against the eight effectiveness criteria of UN Guiding Principle 31, and sets out how to improve.
What comes out
A per supplier risk register with a per-criterion audit log, a draft annual reporting template, a heightened due-diligence report in the format the regulator asks for, a gap analysis against the regulator's hallmarks of best practice, and a Principle 31 upgrade path.
Proof is hosted in Sydney
Your records are held in Sydney, and each organisation reads only its own. Every rating carries an audit log naming the evidence behind it, which is what you produce when a regulator asks how you reached a conclusion.
A client who wants its own instance gets one. It runs wherever the client asks.
The loop
The tier sets a rate.
Proof produces the assessment. The methodology host university publishes it as the Just Supply Index, structurally separate from platform economics so the ranking cannot be bought. That published tier and its reasoning are the public record of observable findings the name refers to; the findings themselves stay with the company. The tier sets the levy, the levy is charged on the rail, and the next cycle of evidence is already accumulating while the current tier is being paid.
Evidence
Four records
The rail, Counted, Heard and Declared, on separate data stores.
Assessment
Proof
A rating for each criterion, with the evidence behind it.
Price
The Index
A published tier that sets the levy on every payment the company settles.
| Index tier | Levy | What sets it |
|---|---|---|
| Leading | 0.10% | An absolute standard. Any company that meets every criterion reaches it, and there is no cap on how many do. |
| Advanced | 0.15% | Recalibrated each year against everyone else. |
| Mainstream | 0.20% | Holding still while peers improve costs a tier. |
| Lagging | 0.30% | Levy routed back to the cooperative at the origin of the chain. |
| Non-disclosing | 0.35% | No assessment on file. A company with nothing on record pays the top rate. |
A reconciliation flag that is open on the rail, or a critical issue raised through the grievance channel, holds the tier down regardless of how the rest of the assessment reads.
Reading the disagreements
What each combination means.
A payment record cannot say what it was like to work there, and a worker whose next shift depends on silence tells an employer's auditor what the employer wants to hear. So the evidence comes from four sources that can disagree, and where they disagree, Proof points you to look. Combinations are read as patterns, not counted as flags, and two of the patterns carry most of the weight.
| Rail · Counted · Heard · Declared ok: consistent. flag: shows a problem. none: no coverage. | Reading | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| ok ok ok ok | Consistent. Leading is available. | Four sources that cannot correct each other, all saying the same thing. The only combination that supports the strongest claim, and worth 0.10% instead of 0.35%. |
| ok ok ok flag | A disclosure gap, not a conduct problem. | The practice looks sound and the company's account has not caught up. The only one of the four a consultant can close without anything changing on the ground, so it should not be priced as harm. |
| flag ok ok ok | The company's account and the money disagree. The money wins. | A statement, an audit and a clean census cannot explain a volume that appeared from nowhere. The rail names the leg and the week, so the enquiry starts somewhere specific. |
| ok flag ok ok | The records are tidy and the workers disagree with them. | Every answer is supported by its evidence and the people doing the work say otherwise. The first hypothesis is labour the records do not cover: cash payment, unregistered hires, a labour-hire firm in between. |
| flag flag ok ok | Critical issue gate. | A wage record that cannot account for the volume, and a workforce independently reporting the International Labour Organization indicators that go with it. Two unconnected sources pointing at the same thing is not a rating question any more. |
| ok none ok ok | Untested. Cannot be rated Leading. | With no verified worker population, the remaining records all come from the company or the businesses it deals with. No census means nobody has contradicted the company's account, and nobody has confirmed it either. That is not the same as a clean site. |
Ready now
Three records deliver a full assessment today.
Declared, an anonymous census and a grievance channel produce everything listed above. Proof reads all three today, so an organisation is assessed and reporting from the first engagement.
When the rail reaches that chain its record joins the other three and the assessment gets sharper. Everything built in the first engagement carries straight into it.
Proof reads the same way in any chain. The criteria, the worker voice aggregator and the Principle 31 module work identically for a seafood importer, a construction principal, a facilities contractor or a chocolate manufacturer.
Turn what you already hold into evidence
Opens an email to hello@justsupply.org
Why the records are kept apart
A census answer cannot be joined to a grievance, which is what lets a worker be candid in one without being identifiable in the other. Proof keeps each company's evidence in Sydney, readable only by that company, and runs as the company's own instance on request. And the Index is produced by a university host, structurally separate from the levy it prices.
Each boundary costs some convenience. Each exists so that no one, the federation included, can make an inconvenient record disappear.
Where Proof is up to
- Proof is built and running. First pilots are being arranged.
- Proof drafts; a human is accountable. The company owns the assessment, reviews it and signs it under its own name.
- Counted reaches whoever is standing at the poster, with no list to be on, and whoever they pass the link to. Work that never passes a poster sits outside what it sees.
- The system ranks where to look. It gives an investigator a leg, a week and a site. Finding out what actually happened is human work.
Proof tells you where the four records stop agreeing, and hands you the evidence behind every line of it.
The money record
The payment rail
What moved and what got paid for it, reconciled at every handover.
See the rail ›
The census
Counted
The anonymous worker census that feeds the worker voice aggregator.
See Counted ›
The grievance channel
Heard
The anonymous grievance channel scored by the Principle 31 module.
See Heard ›
The company's account
Declared
A company's account of itself, checked against the documents behind it, with a named validator on every score.
See Declared ›