This voluntary statement sets out the steps TalaStar Digital Ltd takes to ensure that modern slavery and human trafficking are not taking place in our business operations or supply chain. We publish this statement not because we are legally required to, but because we believe transparency and ethical accountability should begin before the law demands it.
Financial Year: 27 February 2026 – 31 December 2026 · Version 1.0 · Effective: 1 April 2026
Section 54 of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 requires commercial organisations with an annual turnover of £36 million or more to publish an annual modern slavery statement. TalaStar Digital Ltd is an early-stage company incorporated on 27 February 2026 and does not currently meet this turnover threshold. We publish this statement voluntarily because our founding values — kindness, integrity, and accountability — demand that we hold ourselves to a higher standard than the law requires, from the very beginning.
TalaStar Digital Ltd (Company No. 17060305) is a private limited company registered in England and Wales, incorporated on 27 February 2026. We are a technology company developing products across financial technology, healthcare innovation, environmental resilience, and artificial intelligence research.
Our principal activities include the development of MoneyGuard™ (a credit card protection technology concept), Vitalis AI™ (a healthcare early warning system concept), flood resilience research, and SuperHuman AI (an AI reasoning framework platform). These products are at various stages of development and do not yet constitute regulated financial services or validated medical devices.
As of the date of this statement, TalaStar Digital is a sole-founder company. Kristal Jane Apurado is the only employee and lone worker. We do not operate manufacturing facilities, warehouses, or physical distribution networks. Our operations are entirely digital and remote.
As a digital-first technology company, our supply chain is materially different from organisations with physical manufacturing or large outsourced workforces. We have assessed each category of our supply chain for modern slavery risk:
Cloud computing services, domain registrations, hosting providers, and software-as-a-service platforms that support our digital operations.
Assessment: These are established, publicly listed technology companies with their own modern slavery compliance programmes and transparent labour practices.
Third-party large language model APIs and AI service providers used in the development of our SuperHuman AI reasoning frameworks.
Assessment: Major AI providers publish their own modern slavery statements and maintain oversight of their data annotation supply chains. We do not directly engage data labellers or annotators.
Legal, accounting, and advisory services supporting company operations, regulatory compliance, and intellectual property protection.
Assessment: UK-regulated professional services firms operating under their own professional body standards and regulatory oversight.
Stripe and other payment infrastructure providers handling waitlist deposits and future transaction processing.
Assessment: Stripe is a publicly regulated financial technology company with comprehensive compliance programmes across all jurisdictions in which it operates.
Honest assessment: Given our current size, digital-only operations, and reliance on established technology providers, we assess our overall modern slavery risk as very low. However, we recognise that this assessment must be revisited as we grow, particularly if we engage contractors, expand internationally, or develop products that involve human data annotation at scale.
TalaStar Digital's commitment to preventing modern slavery is embedded in our foundational governance documents:
Our Sovereign Code establishes six foundational pillars including Kindness & Compassion and Justice & Fairness, which explicitly require us to build technology that serves the most vulnerable and never exploit human dignity.
Our Healthcare Ethics framework mandates that human welfare comes before commercial interest — a principle we extend to every person in our supply chain, not only our end users.
Our Data Sanctity pledge — that we never sell user data — reflects a broader commitment: we do not treat human beings or their labour as commodities to be extracted from.
Our intellectual property protection framework includes a Moral Anchoring layer that requires all TalaStar operations to align with ethical principles that respect human dignity.
We acknowledge that the artificial intelligence industry faces particular modern slavery risks that demand honest examination. The training of AI models often depends on large-scale human data annotation — work that is frequently outsourced to workers in lower-income countries, sometimes under conditions that raise serious labour rights concerns.
TalaStar Digital does not currently employ or directly engage data annotators or labellers. Our AI products utilise third-party large language model APIs from established providers. However, we recognise that by consuming these services, we are indirect participants in a global AI supply chain that includes human labour.
We commit to the following principles as our AI capabilities develop:
Before engaging any new supplier or service provider, we assess their labour practices, compliance history, and commitment to human rights. We prioritise partners who publish their own modern slavery statements.
As our team grows, we will integrate modern slavery awareness into our onboarding process, ensuring every team member understands the indicators of forced labour, human trafficking, and exploitation.
We maintain open channels for anyone — employees, contributors, partners, or members of the public — to report concerns about modern slavery in our operations or supply chain, without fear of retaliation.
As TalaStar Digital grows and our supply chain becomes more complex, we will proportionately strengthen our due diligence, audit processes, and risk assessment frameworks to match the scale of our operations.
Our approach is informed by the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the International Labour Organization core conventions, and the UK Government's statutory guidance on modern slavery statements.
We recognise that AI development can involve global data supply chains with inherent exploitation risks. We commit to understanding and scrutinising the labour practices behind any AI services we consume, and to advocating for fair compensation of data contributors throughout the industry.
If you have any concerns about modern slavery or human trafficking in relation to TalaStar Digital's operations or supply chain, we encourage you to report them through any of the following channels:
Email: [email protected]
Data Deletion & Rights: Data Deletion Request Page
External: UK Modern Slavery Helpline (08000 121 700)
All reports will be treated confidentially. We will not tolerate any retaliation against individuals who raise concerns in good faith.
This statement has been approved by the sole director of TalaStar Digital Ltd and constitutes our voluntary modern slavery and human trafficking statement for the financial year ending 31 December 2026, made pursuant to the spirit of Section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
We are committed to reviewing and updating this statement annually, and to strengthening our policies and processes as our company grows.
Kristal Jane Apurado
Founder, Sole Director
TalaStar Digital Ltd (Co. No. 17060305)
Date: 1 April 2026