The listening layer
Stakeholder engagement:
the thread through every step
The regulatory environment increasingly requires stakeholder engagement integrated into the processes informing and validating risk identification, prioritisation and impact assessment. Engagement obligations run through every step of the OECD due diligence framework. Due diligence done without the people it concerns is not due diligence — it is paperwork about them.
The due diligence cycle
Engagement attaches to every step
A legal design requirement of the duty itself, tested by regulators for intentionality and effectiveness.
Owning due diligence means hearing your own workers and neighbouring communities first.
Engagement generates data — grievances, surveys and early warning — living in the spine beside provenance and carbon.
A worker & community voice partnership
Due diligence that reaches the people it protects
Due diligence that includes the people it exists to protect needs a channel that actually reaches them. ILLÆSA does not improvise that channel — it partners for it.
How it works
Anonymous mobile surveys gather worker insight on human rights and working conditions, in the worker’s own language.
A structured response protocol helps suppliers and operators act on what workers report.
Progress tracked over time, so improvement is visible and deterioration is caught early.
What it offers
Business-level monitoring
Human-rights risk evaluated through the chain and facilities, with progress tracked.
Landscape assessments
Risks and improvements tracked over one year, across a sector and sourcing geography.
Risk prediction
&Wider’s predictive tooling combines AI with rightsholder data, with the aim of surfacing emerging risks earlier.
Safeguards come first
Anonymity by design. Independent interpretation. Safe channels workers control. Community consent and collective rights. A stated do-no-harm protocol, published with the methodology.