Dravex scores every supplier in your chain against audit data and live news signals, drafts your UK Modern Slavery Act and EU CSDDD disclosures automatically, and flags worker grievance signals before they become headlines.
Compliance, legal and procurement teams piece together a Modern Slavery statement from supplier questionnaires, last year's PDF, and whatever anyone remembers about a news story. The supply chain itself — thousands of suppliers, sub-suppliers and labour agencies — is rarely scored at all.
The suppliers most exposed to forced labour and recruitment-fee practices are usually two or three tiers down — outside the reach of annual questionnaires.
UK MSA, Australia's Modern Slavery Act, and the EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive each ask for overlapping but differently-worded disclosures.
Labour disputes, NGO investigations and grievance reports surface in local press and worker hotlines months before they reach a formal audit cycle.
Risk scoring, signal detection and reporting automation all read from and write to the same per-supplier record — so the statement you publish reflects what your supply chain is actually doing.
Every supplier in your declared supply chain — across as many tiers as you can map — gets a single risk score from 0–100, built from:
Findings, certifications and corrective action history from SMETA, SA8000, BSCI and your own audit programme, normalised into a common schema.
Baseline risk weighting drawn from recognised indices for forced labour prevalence by sector, country and sourcing region.
Local and international press, NGO investigations and trade union reporting, matched to named entities and facility locations.
Score movement over time, so a supplier that is improving reads differently from one that looks the same on paper but is trending worse.
The earliest evidence of forced labour or exploitative conditions rarely arrives through formal channels first. Dravex monitors the channels where it actually surfaces, and ties each signal back to a supplier and tier.
Continuous monitoring of local and regional news in sourcing geographies, translated and matched against your supplier and facility list by name and location.
Investigations and reports from labour rights organisations and trade unions are screened for mentions of entities in your declared supply chain.
Where a grievance line or worker voice channel exists, anonymized complaint themes — recruitment fees, document retention, overtime — are categorised and linked to the relevant supplier record.
Recurring issues across multiple suppliers in the same region or labour-agency network are flagged, since individually they may look minor.
Signals are categorised by severity and confidence so your team reviews a short list of material changes, not a raw news feed.
Every signal that contributes to a score change is traceable back to its source — useful for due diligence files and statement evidence alike.
Dravex maps your live supplier risk data directly onto the structure each framework expects, and produces a working draft for legal and compliance review — not a final filing.
Drafts a Section 54 statement structured against the Home Office's statement content guidance, including organisational structure, policies, due diligence, risk assessment and training sections.
Maps the same underlying supplier risk data to the due diligence, risk identification and mitigation disclosures expected under the EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive for in-scope companies.
Final statements still require board approval and director sign-off — Dravex prepares the evidence-backed draft, your legal team owns the filing.
A short reference for the obligations dravex is built around. This is informational, not legal advice — confirm your organisation's specific obligations with counsel.
Any body corporate or partnership that supplies goods or services, carries on part of its business in the UK, and has a total global turnover of £36 million or more — including UK turnover from overseas-headquartered groups. The threshold applies to the group's combined turnover, including subsidiaries.
The statement must set out the steps the organisation has taken — or state that no steps were taken — to ensure modern slavery is not occurring in its own business or supply chains. The Home Office's updated guidance breaks recommended content into level 1 and level 2 disclosures, covering organisational structure, policies, due diligence, risk assessment, KPIs and training.
The statement must be approved by the board (or equivalent) and signed by a director or designated partner, then published prominently on the organisation's website with a link from the homepage. Statutory guidance recommends publishing within six months of the financial year-end.
There's no fixed civil penalty for non-compliance, but the Secretary of State can seek a court injunction requiring an organisation to comply, and failing to follow a court order can lead to contempt proceedings — alongside the reputational exposure of having no statement, or a weak one, on file.
The CSDDD applies to large EU companies above defined turnover and headcount thresholds, and to non-EU companies generating significant turnover within the EU — phased in over several years by company size.
In-scope companies must identify, prevent, mitigate and account for adverse human rights and environmental impacts across their own operations, subsidiaries and business partners — including, where relevant, forced labour and labour rights risks in supply chains.
A company already mapping supplier-level risk for a UK Modern Slavery statement holds much of the underlying evidence a CSDDD due diligence disclosure also asks for — the gap is usually in how that evidence is structured and documented, not in whether it exists.
Fyka founded Dravex after spending time close to corporate compliance and supply chain teams and seeing the same pattern repeat: the Modern Slavery statement was treated as a once-a-year writing task, owned by whoever had bandwidth in legal or sustainability, and built almost entirely from what suppliers chose to disclose on a questionnaire.
Meanwhile the actual risk — recruitment fee practices, withheld documents, unsafe overtime — was often visible months earlier in local news coverage, NGO reports and worker grievance channels, but none of that reached the people writing the statement.
Dravex is built on a simple premise: if the evidence already exists in public signals and audit data, the statement should be an output of that evidence, not a parallel exercise written from memory. Fyka leads product and policy mapping at Dravex, working closely with compliance teams, auditors and human rights researchers to keep the scoring model grounded in how due diligence actually works in practice.
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