Modern Slavery Act Statement

OpenKit Ltd publishes this statement in line with section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015. It covers our financial year ending 30 November 2025, and it sets out the steps we take to make sure modern slavery and human trafficking play no part in our business or our supply chains.

We have a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery, and we expect the organisations we buy from and work alongside to take the same position.

Our organisation and our supply chains

OpenKit Ltd provides artificial intelligence consultancy, bespoke software development and related engineering services to organisations across a range of sectors. We are registered in England and Wales, company number 13030838. Our registered office is Cambridge Guildhall, Market Square, Cambridge CB2 3QJ, and we also work from Portland House, Belmont Business Park, Durham DH1 1TW. Our financial year ends on 30 November.

Our work is delivered by our own people and by engineers we contract directly, working on UK terms. We buy comparatively little, and what we do buy falls into a small number of categories: cloud hosting and infrastructure, software licences and developer tooling, professional services, recruitment and subcontracted engineering, IT hardware bought through mainstream resellers, and office space.

Assessing the risk

We do not manufacture anything, we hold no stock, and we have no agricultural, construction or textile supply chain. Our suppliers are predominantly in the UK, the European Union and the United States, all jurisdictions with enforced labour law. On that basis we assess the risk of modern slavery inside our own operations, and in the first tier of our supply chain, as low. We recognise that the deeper tiers behind IT hardware are where the known risk in electronics sits, and that our sight of those tiers is limited to the published programmes of the major manufacturers we buy through.

Our policies

The commitments that carry the most weight for an organisation of our shape are the ones that govern our own hiring and our own conduct:

• We verify the right to work of everyone we employ before they start, and we apply the same checks regardless of nationality.
• We pay our people directly, on documented terms, and we do not use unpaid labour, withhold identity documents, or make anyone pay for the chance to work with us.
• We expect contractors and subcontracted engineers to be engaged on equivalent terms.
• Anyone working for us or with us can raise a concern about modern slavery without repercussion, through the routes set out below.
• We do not knowingly do business with any organisation involved in slavery, servitude, forced or compulsory labour, or human trafficking, and we will end a relationship where we find it.

This statement applies to everyone working for us or on our behalf, in any capacity: employees, directors, contractors, agency and seconded workers, consultants and business partners.

Raising a concern

If you believe or suspect that a breach of this statement has occurred, or may be about to, tell your manager or any director as soon as you can, or email [email protected]. Reports are treated in confidence, and nobody who raises a concern in good faith will suffer for having raised it, whether or not it turns out to be well founded.

Breaches

An employee who breaches this statement faces disciplinary action, which may amount to dismissal for misconduct or gross misconduct. We may end our relationship with any other individual or organisation working on our behalf that breaches it.