A human rights lawyer and a mathematician built software that sees modern slavery and carbon risk hiding ten tiers down your supply chain.
FAIR SUPPLY / The converging-lines mark evokes many supplier threads resolving into a single, auditable view. Sydney, Australia.
Most companies can name their direct suppliers. Very few can name the supplier of their supplier's supplier - and that is precisely where forced labour and hidden carbon tend to live. Fair Supply, founded in Sydney in 2019, exists to close that gap. It is a software-as-a-service platform that turns a company's list of suppliers and its annual spend into a map of ESG risk running as deep as ten tiers into the global economy.
The company was co-founded by Kimberly Randle, a human rights lawyer with more than 15 years in modern slavery and corporate law, and Dr Arne Geschke, an industrial mathematician and environmental economist. Randle brought the mission; Geschke brought the method. Together they built what began as the first Modern Slavery footprint and grew into a broader risk engine covering carbon, biodiversity and water.
Forbes Australia nicknamed the result the "Google for ESG" - a search layer for the parts of a supply chain that were previously invisible. To date, the platform has mapped more than 60 billion supply-chain connections and analysed over $750 billion of procurement and investment data.
Often businesses don't have visibility over their value chain to identify, let alone assess, risk. This automates that process and provides insights to mitigate risk.
Fair Supply's engine runs on Multi-Regional Input-Output (MRIO) analysis - the same peer-reviewed economics technique used in national carbon accounting. It is deliberately auditable rather than flashy, which is exactly why institutions trust it.
Provide a supplier list and your annual spend with each one. No survey campaigns required to begin.
MRIO models trace each dollar through the connections of the global economy, tier by tier.
Risk is estimated across modern slavery, Scope 1-3 carbon, biodiversity and water use.
Export audit-ready, regulation-aligned reports for compliance, procurement and boards.
Most audits stop at Tier 1. Fair Supply extends visibility toward Tier 10, where much of the hidden risk concentrates.
Assesses forced-labour and human rights risk across suppliers and generates regulation-aligned modern slavery statements.
Screens and reports Scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon across the supply chain, estimating upstream emissions from spend data.
Measures biodiversity, land-use and water-use exposure embedded deep within supply chains.
Maps supplier relationships and scores multi-tier ESG risk from nothing more than a supplier list and spend.
Audit-ready reporting tools aligned to global ESG frameworks and tightening disclosure regimes.
Statement preparation, gap analysis and due-diligence program design from a specialist team.
Fair Supply sells to two audiences at once: corporate procurement teams that need to prove their supply chains are clean, and institutional investors that need the same assurance across sprawling portfolios. Both share a problem - regulators in the EU, UK, Australia and Japan are steadily closing in on greenwashing and forced labour, and vague commitments no longer pass an audit.
Its rivals include ESG and supply-chain risk platforms such as EcoVadis, Sedex, Sayari and Persefoni. Fair Supply's distinguishing bet is depth from data: rather than relying on supplier surveys, its MRIO method estimates risk to Tier 10 from spend alone, producing defensible figures institutions can stand behind. The timing helps too - Australia's Climate-Related Financial Disclosure regime took effect on 1 January 2025.
The business runs on a B2B SaaS subscription that scales with supplier and portfolio size, wrapped with human rights and climate advisory. Third-party estimates put annual revenue around A$2M, with a team of roughly 38.
All you need is a list of your suppliers and your annual spend to assess their risk across multiple categories, up to 10 tiers deep.
Randle and Geschke build the first Modern Slavery footprint methodology in Sydney.
Scope 3 emissions and ESG compliance reporting tools join the risk engine.
Round led by Airtree with Tidal, Minderoo and QIC to tackle corporate greenwashing.
Wins a 6th Regulation Asia Award for Excellence; deepens superannuation traction.
Signs the London Stock Exchange and Canadian grocer Sobeys; expands into Europe and Canada.
Five V Capital joins as total funding tops $12M, aligned to Australia's new climate disclosure regime.
It is an ESG risk-intelligence SaaS platform that maps supply chains up to 10 tiers deep to measure modern slavery, carbon emissions, biodiversity and water-use risk.
Human rights lawyer Kimberly Randle (CEO) and industrial mathematician Dr Arne Geschke (CTO) founded it in Sydney in 2019.
It uses Multi-Regional Input-Output (MRIO) analysis. From a supplier list and annual spend, it estimates ESG risk across every tier of the supply chain.
Corporates and institutional investors including AustralianSuper, QIC, RM Williams, Ramsay Health Care and the London Stock Exchange. It has analysed over $750B of procurement and investment data.
More than $12M total, including a $6.3M Series A in 2022, backed by Airtree, Five V Capital, QIC, Tidal and the Minderoo Foundation.