TrusTrace’s One Retail Hub cuts fashion compliance burden by 70%

A shared digital platform for human rights and environmental due diligence reporting is gaining meaningful early traction in the fashion industry, with participating brands reporting an average 70 percent reduction in the time required to meet retailer compliance demands.

TrusTrace, the Stockholm-based supply chain traceability and compliance software company, announced the figures on March 31, 2026 — seven weeks after the February 11 launch of One Retail Hub. The platform, which is free to access for brands of all sizes, allows fashion and footwear companies to complete a single standardized assessment and share it instantly across all participating retail partners, rather than rebuilding compliance responses from scratch for each retailer relationship.

Why the industry needed a shared standard

A convergence of EU regulatory frameworks — including the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), which mandates Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD) across the value chain, as well as the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) — is placing escalating obligations on brands to demonstrate supply chain accountability across multiple touchpoints simultaneously.

For sustainability teams at mid-sized and smaller labels in particular, fulfilling bespoke compliance requests from each retail partner has become a significant operational drain.

One Retail Hub operationalizes the Retailer Brand Due Diligence Questionnaire, a unified HREDD self-assessment framework developed with guidance from Cascale and Fair Wear and informed by Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) principles. Seven leading retailers participated in building the platform, including Zalando, Boozt, ASOS and ABOUT YOU.

AI cuts assessment time from weeks to days

The platform’s efficiency gains rest on four integrated capabilities:

• a unified assessment framework that consolidates requirements across participating retailers;
• AI-assisted completion that draws on a brand’s existing documentation to auto-populate responses;
• instant multi-retailer data sharing once an assessment is complete;
• and a gap analysis function that generates actionable improvement recommendations.

According to internal data from TrusTrace, the AI-assisted completion feature is capable of reducing the time needed to complete a compliance assessment from three to four weeks per retailer to four to six days. The 70 percent average time saving cited by the company reflects aggregate efficiency across all retailer relationships on the platform.