Modern Slavery Statement UK
See Me Please
(See Me Please Limited — UK)
Modern Slavery Statement
Reporting period: 1 July 2025 – 30 June 2026
Statement type: Voluntary statement, published with reference to section 54 (Transparency in Supply Chains) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (UK)
Entity: See Me Please Limited, trading as See Me Please, UK company no. 16953184, registered office 10 John Street, London, WC1N 2EB
1. Introduction
See Me Please ("SMP", "we", "us") is the United Kingdom operating entity of See Me Please, an inclusive user testing and research platform. We connect organisations with a deliberately diverse community of testers — including people with disability, older adults, neurodivergent people, and people who speak English as an additional language — to validate the real-world accessibility and usability of digital products, rather than relying on a convenience sample of "typical" users. We describe ourselves as an inclusive user research platform because who we test with is the point: digital products are used by everyone, so testing should reflect that.
This statement is also our account of what we consider ethical user research to look like in practice. To us, that means two things at once: methodologically rigorous insight for our clients, and fair, transparent, dignified treatment of the people who provide it.
Our annual turnover is well below the £36 million threshold that triggers mandatory reporting under section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (UK).
We are publishing this statement on a voluntary basis because organisations choosing an accessibility-testing partner deserve to see how we treat the people who make that testing possible.
The Modern Slavery Act 2015 (UK) recommends — but does not legally mandate — that a statement address six areas: organisational structure and supply chains, policies, due diligence, risk assessment, key performance indicators, and training. This statement addresses each of those six areas and covers the reporting period stated above. It was approved by our board of directors on 10 July 2026 and is signed by Katherine McDermott below.
2. Our Structure, Operations and Supply Chains
Structure
See Me Please Limited (company no. 16953184) is a private limited company registered in England and Wales, with its registered office at 10 John Street, London, WC1N 2EB. It is part of the See Me Please group, whose original operating entity, Digital Discovery Pty Ltd (ABN 22 668 639 156), is headquartered in Sydney, Australia. See Me Please Limited engages testers and employs staff supporting our UK and broader European operations. Related entities in the group include Digital Discovery Pty Ltd (Australia) and See Me Please Limited (Ireland, company no. 805305, registered at 51 Bracken Road, Dublin D18 CV48), which engage testers and employ staff in their respective jurisdictions.
Operations
We operate a two-sided inclusive user testing platform:
Client organisations — businesses and government agencies who engage us to test the accessibility and usability of their websites, apps and products with real, diverse users.
Our testing community — a panel of 300+ individually contracted testers across the UK, Ireland and Australia, recruited specifically for their lived experience across six cohorts: blind, low vision, Deaf/hard of hearing, neurodivergent, older adults, and people who speak English as an additional language. Testers complete paid, moderated and unmoderated testing sessions, structured written feedback, surveys, and video-recorded usability studies.
Our own workforce consists of less than 10 employees and contractors, engaged in software engineering, testing operations, customer success and administration, with a UK/EMEA presence supporting our UK and Irish markets, and the remainder based in Australia.
Supply chains
Our direct supply chain includes cloud infrastructure and SaaS providers (e.g. AWS), professional services (legal, accounting, recruitment), payment processing and international payout providers (including Airwallex, used for cross-border payments), and office equipment, IT hardware and corporate travel.
We consider our most distinctive workforce-related exposure to sit not in this conventional corporate supply chain, but in how we engage, pay, and safeguard our testing community — addressed below.
3. Our Approach to Human Rights
We support the objectives of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (UK), the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
As a company whose entire commercial value comes from the participation of people — many of whom experience disability, chronic illness, or other circumstances that can increase vulnerability to exploitation — we treat fair treatment of our testing community as core to our product, not an adjacent compliance exercise.
We also recognise that language can itself be a barrier to a tester understanding and asserting their rights. Because our testing community includes people who speak English as an additional language, we provide task briefs, rate information, and our tester agreement in plain, unambiguous English, and we do not treat "the tester agreed to the terms" as sufficient if there is reason to think the terms were not actually understood.
4. Modern Slavery Risks in Our Operations and Supply Chains
We assess our risk across two categories: our conventional corporate supply chain, and our testing community.
4.1 Corporate supply chain
Consistent with comparable small technology and SaaS businesses, we assess the inherent risk of modern slavery in our direct corporate supply chain as low, reflecting that our primary suppliers operate in jurisdictions with strong labour protections and are themselves large, reputable technology and professional-services firms. We recognise that risk can still exist further down these supply chains, and we do not treat "low risk" as "no risk."
4.2 Our testing community — where we believe closer attention is warranted
We consider this the area of highest relevance to our business. Our testers are engaged as independent contractors, paid at an agreed hourly or per-task rate for user testing sessions and related work (e.g. demo content). We recognise that this model carries well-documented risks if managed poorly, including:
Underpayment relative to time worked, where a fixed per-task fee does not reflect the actual time a testing session takes — a particular risk where a tester’s disability means a task reasonably takes longer than it would for a non-disabled tester (mitigated by our minimum engagement and floor-rate policy — see 5.1);
Excessive or unpaid "waiting" or admin time around a paid session (mitigated by capping session duration — see 5.1);
Precarity and power imbalance, where testers who rely on this income, or who face barriers to other employment because of disability or discrimination, may feel unable to decline unsuitable work or raise concerns (mitigated by guaranteed choice over projects and a no-penalty decline policy — see 5.2);
Vulnerable testers specifically — for example, testers with cognitive or communication disability, testers experiencing mental illness, testers in insecure housing, testers for whom English is an additional language, or testers who rely on a carer or support worker to help manage bookings, communication, or payments (mitigated by our privacy-by-design approach and minimal-disclosure policy — see 5.2);
Cross-border payment risk, given we pay testers across the UK, Ireland and Australia in multiple currencies via providers including Airwallex, where payout delays or fees can materially erode take-home pay.
We do not consider any of the above to constitute modern slavery as it presently occurs in our operations. We name these risks explicitly because a credible modern slavery statement should describe the risks that actually attach to a business's specific model, not a generic list borrowed from a different industry — and because most comparable statements we reviewed omit their contributor base from risk assessment entirely, even where it is core to the business.
5. Actions Taken to Assess and Address These Risks
5.1 Fair and transparent payment, regardless of gig-style engagement
We guarantee a floor pay rate of at least 50% above the applicable open-employment minimum wage in every country in which we operate, and we aim for — and typically exceed — a target floor of double the open-employment minimum wage, with many testers earning significantly more depending on task complexity and cohort-specific expertise.
We guarantee a minimum three-hour engagement payment for every session, regardless of how much less time the task actually takes.
Session length is capped at the outset and testers are not permitted to work beyond that cap — this removes the incentive for unpaid overtime to creep in around a fixed-fee task, rather than relying on goodwill to prevent it.
Testers choose which projects they take on; no tester is assigned work without their agreement, which limits the power imbalance that comes with income precarity.
Payments are made directly into the tester's own nominated account, so a tester's earnings cannot be intercepted or diverted by a third party without our knowledge.
5.2 Safeguarding testers who may be in a vulnerable position
We treat testers as valued contributors of expert, lived-experience insight, not as a disposable data source.
Testers can decline any task, at any stage, without penalty or being deprioritised for future work.
We do not require testers to disclose more about their disability or personal circumstances than is necessary to match them appropriately to a task.
We build tester privacy into our platform and processes by design — including the underlying system architecture — rather than treating it as a policy statement layered on top. This matters particularly for testers who disclose sensitive information (a disability, a mental health condition, or reliance on a carer) as part of being matched to relevant work.
5.3 Due diligence over corporate suppliers
We select cloud, professional-services, and payment-processing suppliers based in jurisdictions with strong labour-rights enforcement;
We do not currently include a standard right to request labour-practice information in supplier contracts. We are introducing this as a standard clause in new and renewed supplier agreements above £20,000 per annum, giving us the right to request information about a supplier's labour practices and to terminate the arrangement if a credible modern slavery concern isn't addressed. We expect to have this in place for new contracts from 30 October 2026.
5.4 Remediation
If we identify a practice — in our own operations or a supplier's — that we believe places a worker (employee, contractor, or tester) at risk of exploitation, we will: pause the arrangement causing the risk, remediate any underpayment identified (including back-payment), and, where appropriate, support the affected individual to access external advice (e.g. the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, ACAS, or the Modern Slavery Helpline). No remediation actions were required during this reporting period.
6. Assessing the Effectiveness of Our Actions
We assess effectiveness through:
Tester payment audits — periodic review of a sample of completed sessions against actual time spent;
Tester feedback loops — surveying our testing community on whether they feel fairly paid, fairly treated, and able to raise concerns without fear of losing future work;
Grievance and complaint tracking — the number and nature of concerns raised, tracked to resolution;
Supplier review cadence — periodic review of key suppliers against our due diligence criteria.
We recognise this is our first voluntary statement for our UK entity and that our effectiveness measures will mature over subsequent reporting periods. We will report progress against each of the above in next year's statement.
7. Consultation
This statement is made on behalf of See Me Please Limited, trading as See Me Please, only, covering our UK operations. See Me Please Limited does not own or control Digital Discovery Pty Ltd (Australia) or See Me Please Limited (Ireland).
Digital Discovery Pty Ltd has published its own equivalent voluntary statement covering the group's Australian operations, and See Me Please intends to publish a further voluntary statement covering its Irish operations in due course. Where relevant, those statements describe the risks and actions specific to testers and suppliers engaged in those jurisdictions.
8. Other Relevant Information
What we mean by inclusive user testing. Inclusive user testing is testing conducted with a deliberately diverse panel of real users — including people with disability, older adults, neurodivergent people, and people who speak English as an additional language — rather than a convenience sample of testers assumed to represent "everyone."
Why ethical user research matters to the organisations we work with. Accessibility and usability testing is only as credible as the treatment of the people providing it. When a client partners with See Me Please, they are engaging a testing community that is paid fairly, briefed respectfully, and free to decline or flag work without consequence.
In short: See Me Please is an inclusive user testing and research platform operating in the UK, Ireland and Australia. We test digital products with people with disabilities, older adults, neurodivergent people, and people who speak English as an additional language, and we pay and treat every one of those testers fairly.
This statement, and future annual updates, will be published at seemeplease.com/modern-slavery-statement-uk
Approved by the board of directors of See Me Please Limited on 10 July 2026
Signed:
Katherine McDermott
Director
10 July 2026