We started PBP with a purpose—to provide a B2B platform for authentic, meaningful products, and to help sustain those who create them.
Sustainability is at the core of Powered by People, a platform built on fair and transparent trade that values people, cultural heritage, and innovation. Leveraging technology, we create pathways to global markets, driving economic, social, and environmental impact. Dedicated to continuous improvement, we work with responsible makers to advance Social, Environmental, and Governance practices, empowering people through ethical trade.
PBP Verified™
PBP Verified ensures makers meet key standards in sustainability, quality, and reliability to succeed in global markets. Through a detailed readiness assessment, we evaluate business practices, production capabilities, and compliance with our Social, Environmental, and Governance pillars. This verification signals that a maker is committed to ethical practices, sustainable operations, and consistently high product quality.
It’s more than a credential—it’s a mark of trust that sets makers apart and builds confidence in their ability to deliver responsibly-made products.
Here’s how it works:
Our Charter
We are powered by people. That is a commitment.
A commitment to a new economics, a new model of open and transparent sourcing that creates fair value in disruptive new ways.
We provide a platform to preserve and promote authentic cultural heritage, identity and innovation. We do this by collaborating to create a community of conscious buyers, makers and other partners who share the principles of fairness, justice and equity. Our open access model generates network effects that add value and restore symmetry to international trade. Ethical and sustainable trade can only take place between equals.
We live this commitment by putting people at the heart of everything we do, from using technology to solve complex problems that enable our community to create and share inspired products through to showcasing the people behind those products, giving voice to stories that are seldom told.
We stand for a radical democracy in access to finance, digital technology and pathways to global markets that lead to sustainable economic, social and environmental impact.
We stand for meaningful, effective transparency. Transparency in sourcing practices, in information, in true prices. Transparency as the foundation of fairness. We are stewards, striving to a sustainable future through this new value chain. We take care of the elements: people, biodiversity, and natural resources.
We recognise and respect the agency, the voice and the creativity of the value chain actors we work with. Ours is a platform that projects and curates those attributes. It’s our contribution to the indivisible human rights we all strive for.
Our Code of Conduct
We believe that making is a form of creative expression and self-realisation. It should bring dignity and respect to all those who participate in the process.
Making must enable people to meet their basic needs of shelter, food, clothing, education and health, with some savings for life events.
The act of making must be safe and healthy. It must protect the participants, their families and communities.
Making should nurture ability, craft and skill to enable people to progress personally and professionally.
Making should be meaningful and foster belonging and purpose amongst those who participate.
Making should make the world a more equal place.
Makers must help eradicate forced and child labor and all forms of exploitation that rob people of their human dignity.
Makers must enable agency, voice and independence for all those they work with.
