We’re not just
reimagining trade
—we’re transforming it for good.
Sourcery exists to transform trade for good by enabling our Partners to connect and transact with more transparency, efficiency and trust while be recognized and rewarded for their commitment to commercial, social and environmental impact.
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Our Roots
Sourcery was founded in 2020 on the belief that the future of agriculture holds incredible potential, yet the existing traditional commodity trade market system that has been in place for nearly two centuries is holding it back—trade needs to be transformed for good.
Today, this archaic commodity trade system remains overly complex, fragmented, volatile, opaque and cannot deliver the commercial, social and environmental solutions at scale that are necessary for the future of industry and life on our planet.
We began as a professional services firm, yet in 2023 began to transition to becoming a digital sourcing and trade solution so that we could accelerate the transformation of trade for good at scale.
Together, we are committed to transforming trade for good.
The Chasm
Between consumers, brands, and retailers on one end of the value chain, and growers, processors, manufacturers, and traders on the other, a persistent supply and demand disconnect exists—what we call “the chasm.”
This chasm limits the full potential of agri-commodities and other raw materials, undermining those committed to growing food, fibre, timber, and extracting mined resources—and those who depend on them for industry and life.
At the heart of this divide is an overly complex, fragmented, extractive, and opaque trade system, rooted in policies and practices that are centuries old and fundamentally unfit for the future of agriculture and trade.
These outdated systems are designed around faceless, fungible transactions that obscure upstream value, restrict market access, and enable unfair competition through complex Wall Street financial instruments derived from physical commodities but have nothing to do with how they are grown, processed, manufactured or traded among those rely on these commodities for their lives and livelihoods. The result is:
Extracted value from rural communities, industry actors, and environmental potential to preserve life on our planet.
Suppressed margins for growers and direct industry actors who depend on these raw materials for their products, businesses, and livelihoods.
Volatility driven by speculative trading—where short-term profit gained by those who have never stepped foot on a farm or factory floor, at the expense of those who live and work on farms and in factories.
A system that discourages investment, erodes trust, and blocks progress in transparency, traceability, technology, and innovative needed for true sustainability.
Because of this instability, those who want to invest—growers, manufacturers, traders, and even brands—are unable to take on the risk. The sector remains trapped in a short-term, destructive cycle that enriches speculators while eroding natural resource and ecosystem and stifling long-term value creation for those committed to transformation.
Any attempts at meaningful commercial, social, environmental innovation and investment are often superficial or solely reliant on philanthropy, failing to enable market transformation at scale.
As a result, the full market potential of agri- and other commodities remains unrealized—threatening the future of rural communities, industry, and life on our planet.
There is a better way forward.
Through decades of collective experience—from growers to brands, traders to finance to civil society—the Sourcery team, alongside early Partners developed the Connect Platform.
This technology enables the global trade community to connect through an open digital global marketplace built for transparency, efficiency, and trust— protecting buyers and sellers and unlocking new value across market intelligence, finance, logistics, and the monetization of performance transactional and impact data at scale.
Sourcery is a member-owned, for-profit, global cooperative corporation, led and owned by its Partners and investors.
We’re not just reimagining trade—we’re transforming it, for good.
Our Partners
Sourcery is a member-owned global sourcing and digital trade solution that is led and owned by a community of forward growers, traders, manufacturers and brand who are committed to transforming the future of trade for good.
To learn more about your corporate cooperative operating structure and governance, please contact us.
Our Mission
Sourcery invites growers, manufacturers, traders and brands to shift the trade and impact paradigm by adopting the Connect Platform to ensure that every transaction delivers more transparency, efficiency, trust, profitability and verified impact necessary to transform the future of trade for good.
Together with our Partners, we trade smarter, grow faster and accelerate impact at scale—benefiting everyone from grower to consumer.
Our Vision
Our vision is to transform trade for good.
Since our founding in 2020, we have engaged, collaborated and listened closely to the needs of our Grower, Trader, Manufacturer and Brand Partners who have shared their vision for the future of trade.
This vision includes a commodity trade sector that is more transparent, efficient, inclusive and equitable and is able to deliver more commercial value and profitability to those that grow, process, ship and rely on phyiscal agri- and other commodities for their business, ensuring that the future of industry and life on this planet can be sustained.
Responding to this shared vision, Sourcery has a mandate to build the world’s most advanced sourcing and digital trade solution that aims to transform the future of trade for good.
“Why try to beat the competition
when you can
rewrite the rules.”
- Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne
The Digital Transformation of Trade for Good.
Sourcery began as a trade facilitation and advisory services firm, helping to facilitate transactions, collect impact data, and develop innovative finance and trade solutions on behalf of our early Partners (clients). These clients included brands and retailers, manufacturers, civil society organizations, certification bodies, and technology solution providers.
Through this experience, we developed the Sourcery solution framework of Transparent Trade, Intelligent Impact, and Innovative Finance (formally the Direct-to-Grower™ Solution), a comprehensive set of services and resources that empower our Partners to drive the transformation of trade for good.
While the success of Sourcery was evident by our growth and the growing efforts across the sector to adopt Direct-to-Grower™ approaches to trade, we recognized the need to scale our interventions and impact. We needed to extend these solutions across entire businesses, supply chains, and eventually the whole sector—inviting millions of growers, traders, manufacturers, and brands to participate in transforming trade for good.
The Connect Platform is the digital realization of that vision—the transformation of trade for good, at scale.
Member Led, Member Owned
Sourcery Partners recognise that the future of trade requires them to proactively lead, invest and own the transformation, together. During the first five (5) years of membership, Grower, Manufacturer and Trade Partners can earn or purchase stock equity in Sourcery by demonstrating their commitment to transforming trade for good.
Sourcery Partners can earn up to 80% of all outstanding stock in Sourcery through the Sourcery Stock Option Subscription programme and by making direct equity investments. 2. The stock option progamme includes a five (5) year vesting period whereby the volume traded through Sourcery earn equity credits that are then converted into shares that hold a value of up to $250,000 USD. Learn more here,
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Let’s transform all
trade for good.
We are building a global community through technology that aims to transform all trade for good.
Although we are rooted in fibre and textiles—this is just the beginning.
The challenges and opportunities that exist today in cotton are parallel to those in most traded agri- forest and hard commodities—unnecessary complexity, fragmentation, price volatility, value suppression, resource depletion and climate change.
As Sourcery grows and expands its solution into many other industries—we will work to bring together these trading communities together through technology so they too can transform trade for good.