Modern Slavery Statement
A voluntary statement about forced labour and human trafficking: who we actually buy from, what we actually check, and the honest limit of what a business our size can see up its own supply chain.
The short version
A plain-words summary for orientation. The sections below are the full statement.
- This statement is voluntary. We are far below the size at which the UK Modern Slavery Act, the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act or the Australian Modern Slavery Act require one. We publish it because we think a company should say where its materials come from, not because a law made us.
- We are two things: a browser software business, and a custom cabinet shop in Los Angeles. Both are small, and section 2 says exactly how small.
- Our supply chain is short. Software vendors on one side, lumber and hardware distributors on the other.
- We have no forced labour, no child labour and no recruitment fees in our own operation, and we can say that with confidence because we know every person who works here.
- We do not run a supplier audit programme, and we are not going to claim one. Section 5 says what we do instead and where our visibility stops.
- If you have credible information that anything we buy is touched by forced labour, tell us and we will act on it. The address is in section 8.
1. Why this statement is voluntary
No law requires this page. We wrote it anyway.
Section 54 of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 applies to commercial organisations with a total annual turnover of GBP 36 million or more that carry on business in the United Kingdom. The California Transparency in Supply Chains Act applies to retail sellers and manufacturers with annual worldwide gross receipts over USD 100 million doing business in California. The Australian Modern Slavery Act 2018 applies at AUD 100 million in consolidated revenue. We are a very long way below all three.
Nothing in this page is a statement made under section 54. We are not a reporting entity under that Act, nor under the California statute, nor under the Australian one. If we ever cross a threshold, we will say so and publish the statement that law requires.
Companies our size sometimes publish a version of this page that borrows a large company's furniture: a supplier scorecard, an audit programme, a training curriculum, a whistleblowing hotline, a board resolution. We have none of those, so none of them are described here. A statement that describes controls a company does not run is worse than no statement at all, because it tells a reader that a risk has been managed when nobody has looked at it.
2. Our business, and how small it is
Bespoke Woodcraft Studio LLC is a California limited liability company at 688 N Rimsdale Ave, Covina, CA 91722, United States. It does two things.
- Software. We build and run CabDesign, a browser tool for designing cabinets and rooms and turning them into a saw-ready cut list, and StackDesign, a browser tool for planning tool storage. Both are used from a web browser, both are free during our open beta, and neither ships a physical product to anyone.
- The workshop. The same company runs a custom cabinet shop in the Los Angeles area, which is where the software's knowledge comes from. It builds cabinets and furniture to order for local customers.
The company is founder-run with a very small number of people involved in it. There is no factory, no overseas production site, no seasonal labour intake and no labour agency in the picture. Every person doing work for this company is someone the founder knows personally and pays directly.
3. What we actually buy
Cloud software on one side, wood and hardware on the other. That is the whole list.
| What we buy | From whom | Our risk read |
|---|---|---|
| Software and infrastructure: hosting, database, payments, email, analytics, AI | Established software companies, all in the United States. They are named in our international data transfers statement. | Low. These are salaried professional workforces in high-income countries with public reporting on their own labour practices. The residual risk sits in the data centre construction and hardware manufacturing behind them, which is real but is several layers past anything we contract for. |
| Sheet goods, hardwood and veneer | Lumber and panel distributors and dealers in the United States. | Moderate at the far end. Forestry and panel manufacture are sectors with documented forced-labour risk in some regions. We buy finished panels from a distributor rather than importing raw material, which means the mill is two or more steps away from us and we do not choose it. |
| Cabinet hardware: hinges, slides, pulls, fasteners, edgebanding | Hardware distributors and dealers in the United States, carrying mainstream European and North American brands. | Moderate at the far end. Metal hardware and fasteners are frequently manufactured in Asia. Again, we buy through a distributor and the factory is not our counterparty. |
| Machines, tooling, abrasives and consumables | Tool dealers in the United States. | Moderate at the far end, for the same reason: the brand is visible to us, the contract manufacturer usually is not. |
| Professional services: accounting, insurance, legal | Local firms in California. | Low. |
Two things fall out of that table and they are the honest headline of this whole page. First, the highest-risk part of what we buy is physical goods for the workshop, not anything to do with the software. Second, for that physical half, our direct relationship is with a distributor, and the factory that made the thing is one or more steps beyond our sight.
4. Our commitments
These are things we do, not aspirations.
- No forced labour, no bonded labour, no child labour in our own operation. Everyone doing work for this company does it voluntarily, is free to leave, is paid at or above the applicable minimum, and holds their own identity documents. We do not hold anyone's passport, we do not lend anyone money against future work, and we do not use labour agencies.
- No recruitment fees, ever. Nobody pays anything to work here, directly or through an intermediary. If we ever hire through a third party, that party will be told this in writing before it starts.
- Work authorisation is checked properly for anyone we take on, using the ordinary US process, and we never hold a person's immigration status over them.
- We will not knowingly buy from a supplier connected to forced labour. If we get credible information about one of ours, we will stop buying from it, tell them why, and say so if anyone asks.
- We will not retaliate against anyone who raises a concern about this, whether they work for us, work for a supplier, or are a stranger who noticed something.
5. What we do about the supply chain, and what we do not
We buy from established distributors and we pay attention. We do not audit factories, and we are not going to pretend we do.
What we do
- We buy from established distributors and dealers with a public identity, a business address and a reputation to lose, rather than from the cheapest anonymous source.
- We favour brands that publish their own supply chain or responsible sourcing position, which is one of the several reasons the shop uses the hardware and tooling brands it does.
- We read the notices that reach us. Import bans, withhold-release orders and credible press reporting about a brand we buy are the kind of thing that changes a purchasing decision here, because we are small enough to switch suppliers quickly.
- We review this page at least once a year and rewrite it if what we buy has changed.
What we do not do, stated plainly
- We do not audit or inspect any supplier's facilities, and we have never commissioned a third-party audit.
- We do not require suppliers to sign a modern slavery clause. As a small buyer we have no way to make one stick, and a clause nobody enforces is paperwork rather than protection.
- We do not run a formal training programme, because the entire company can have this conversation in a room.
- We do not operate an anonymous whistleblowing hotline. What we have instead is a monitored email address that a real person reads, which is section 8.
- We cannot see past our distributors to the mills and factories at the far end, and we do not claim to.
6. What has happened so far
No allegation, report or suspicion of forced labour, human trafficking or child labour has reached us, in our own operation or about any supplier, in the period this statement covers. If one ever does, this section is where we will say so and what we did about it. An empty section here means nothing happened, not that nobody was looking.
7. What we intend to improve
Short and achievable, because a list of ten goals from a company this size is a list nobody will check.
- Write down, once, the responsible-sourcing position of each brand the shop buys regularly, so a purchasing decision can be made against something rather than from memory.
- Ask our two or three largest suppliers, in writing, what they know about their own upstream manufacture. Their answers, or their silence, will tell us where to look next.
- Review this statement each year and publish the updated version with a new date, whether or not anything changed.
8. Raising a concern
If you believe anyone working for us, or anyone in a supply chain we buy from, is being subjected to forced labour, trafficking or any other form of modern slavery, please tell us. You do not need evidence that would stand up in court. Tell us what you saw and we will look into it.
- Email: support@cabdesign.app or support@stackdesign.app
- By post: Bespoke Woodcraft Studio LLC, 688 N Rimsdale Ave, Covina, CA 91722, United States
If someone is in immediate danger, call your local emergency number first. In the United States the National Human Trafficking Hotline is 1-888-373-7888.
9. Approval
This voluntary statement was approved by Ahmed Hamade, founder and managing member of Bespoke Woodcraft Studio LLC, on August 21, 2026. There is no board of directors to approve it, and we are not going to invent one for the sake of a signature block.