Products & Pricing

SMETA Audit

A SMETA audit is one of the most widely recognised social compliance audits, designed to assess a site’s performance on labour standards, health & safety, and business ethics.

Our SMETA audit service supports suppliers and brands in meeting global ethical trade expectations through a structured, credible process delivered by qualified auditors.

We guide you through every stage, from preparation and documentation to post-audit improvement plans, ensuring a smooth, professional experience that adds value and builds buyer confidence.

Service Provider Audit 

Labour and service providers play a vital role in your operations, but they can also introduce hidden ESG risks. Evaluate for Service Providers is our targeted audit designed to assess the working conditions, labour practices, and ethical standards of cleaning, security, catering, logistics, and other service partners.

Streamlined, cost-effective, and aligned with the ETI Base Code, this audit offers clear, independent insight into whether your providers meet responsible business standards. The process is fast to schedule, easy to complete, and delivers concise reports with actionable outcomes, helping you manage third-party risk with confidence.

Verify – Independent Onsite Verification

Formal audits are essential, but they can’t always capture the day-to-day reality. Verify is our unannounced, independent spot-check audit designed to give you a more accurate and timely view of what’s really happening on site.

By visiting without notice, our experienced auditors assess working conditions, production activity, and site compliance as they truly are, helping you close the gap between official audits and everyday operations. Verify strengthens the credibility of your supplier data and builds ongoing confidence in your supply chain integrity.

Investigate – Specialist Investigation

When a supplier issue arises, fast and independent insight is critical. Investigate is designed to uncover risks and verify whistle-blower allegations or suspected non-compliance.

Led by senior auditors, we carry out discreet, unannounced site visits and conduct in-depth checks tailored to the issue at hand. Preliminary findings are delivered within 24 hours, giving you the clarity to act fast.

This service builds confidence with stakeholders by offering trusted verification, decisive risk management, and vital protection for your brand reputation.

Audit add-ons

Branded Supplier Risk Assessment

Designed for retailers listing third-party brands, this assessment reviews ESG, ethical, and compliance standards before products go live. It protects your reputation, enables fast and scalable risk screening, and tracks corrective actions directly in our platform, Optimus.

Supplier / Site Risk Assessment

A detailed review of manufacturing sites and suppliers to identify ESG and quality risks, with clear scores and recommendations to drive improvement and audit readiness.

Homeworker Risk Assessment

Our Homeworker Risk Assessment reveals hidden vulnerabilities in your supply chain, especially in sectors like apparel and handicrafts where at-home work is common.

Labour Provider / Agency Risk Assessment

This assessment evaluates recruitment agencies and labour providers to ensure ethical hiring, worker protection, and compliance with international labour standards.

Service Provider / GNFR Risk Assessment

Service and GNFR (Goods Not For Resale) providers like logistics, cleaning, catering, and IT can carry high ESG risk. This assessment ensures they meet ethical and compliance standards.

Diversity & Inclusion Assessment

A diversity and inclusion assessment gives you an evidence-based view of representation, inclusion, opportunity and maturity, within your own organisation, across your supply chain, or both. It looks beyond ownership data and headline figures to how diversity and inclusion is actually measured and managed. It’s available to private and public sector organisations.

For your own organisation, it provides an independent view of current strengths, gaps and opportunities, with practical recommendations for progressing your approach. It also gives you credible evidence for client questionnaires, tenders, supplier onboarding requirements and stakeholder requests.

Across supply chains, we apply the same principles at supplier level and tailor the approach across geographies, recognising differences in legislation, cultural context, reporting requirements and available data. This helps you understand supplier maturity, benchmark performance, identify risks and opportunities, prioritise engagement and track progress over time. It’s particularly relevant if you’re starting or developing your approach, responding to client, tender or stakeholder requirements, or managing large or geographically diverse supplier populations. It also suits organisations that want a consistent framework for benchmarking and tracking progress. The result is not just a score. It shows where you are today, where your suppliers are, and where meaningful progress can be made next.

Supplier Gender Pay Assessment

As pay gap reporting becomes more visible and expectations continue to evolve, organisations are looking more closely at whether their suppliers reflect the standards and values they expect of themselves.

We combine publicly available data with direct supplier engagement. This shows where pay gaps exist across your supply chain and which diversity and inclusion practices may be driving them, giving you a fuller picture of supplier maturity, risk and opportunity.

The assessment is designed for organisations that want to know whether suppliers are keeping pace with their own commitments on pay equity and inclusion. It’s particularly relevant if you have public diversity and inclusion commitments, responsible procurement objectives, ESG goals or increasing stakeholder scrutiny. The results show which suppliers may need support, where improvement is possible, and where supplier engagement will have the greatest impact.

Cotton Supply Chain Mapping & Assessment

Cotton is a vital global commodity, but also one of the highest risk. It is produced in over 100 countries and supports more than 35 million people worldwide, yet cotton supply chains are often linked to forced and child labour, water scarcity and climate challenges.

Because of this complexity, companies need clear visibility of their suppliers, robust risk assessments and strong evidence to demonstrate responsible sourcing. Our Optimus platform makes this possible by combining supply chain mapping, documentation collection and risk assessment to build more sustainable sourcing practices.

Timber Supply Chain Mapping & Assessment

Growing demand for commodities like timber is driving deforestation and illegal trade. The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) requires companies trading these products in the EU to prove they are:

• Free from deforestation,
• Legally produced, and
• Fully traceable to their source.

Because supply chains are complex, companies must firstly map suppliers, then collect evidence and carry out risk assessment. Our Optimus platform supports this by providing supply chain mapping and documentation gathering to support and prepare for EUDR.