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.
Our Roots
Sourcery was founded in 2020 with the belief that agriculture holds immense potential—but the traditional commodity trade system, in place for nearly two centuries, is holding it back. Trade must be transformed for good.
Today’s system is overly complex, fragmented, volatile, and opaque. It cannot deliver the scalable commercial, social, and environmental solutions necessary for the future of industry and our planet.
Sourcery began as a professional services firm. In 2023, we began our transition into a digital sourcing and trade platform to 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These outdated systems are designed around faceless, fungible transactions that obscure upstream value, restrict market access, and enable unfair competition through complex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 that establish pricing and value of commodities in the form of derivatives but have nothing to do with how they are physically 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 agricultural ecosystems.
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 and financiers while eroding rural community wealth potential, 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 transactional and impact performance 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 thinking and innovative producers, traders, manufacturers and brands who are committed to transforming the future of trade for good.
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 producer 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, Trade, 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
Owed by the Trade.
Sourcery Partners recognize that the future of trade depends on their collective leadership, investment, and shared ownership of the transformation. Grower, Manufacturer, Trade, and Brand Partners can earn or purchase equity in Sourcery by demonstrating a clear commitment to transforming trade for good.
Sourcery founders have reserved up to 75% of all outstanding share equity in Sourcery for Partners to earn or through the Sourcery Equity Credit Programme and by making direct equity investments in Sourcery. 2. The Sourcery Equity Credit Programme includes a five (5) year vesting period whereby the volume traded through Sourcery can earn equity credits that are then be used to purchase and transfer in shares that can hold a value of up to $250,000 USD. Please contact us to learn more.
Let’s transform all
trade for good.
Our vision is to:
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—this is just the beginning.
The challenges we face in fibre reflect those across many traded agri, forest, and food commodities: unnecessary complexity, fragmentation, price volatility, value suppression, resource depletion, and the accelerating impacts of climate change.
As Sourcery grows and expands into new sectors, we are committed to uniting these trading sectors and communities through technology—enabling them to transform trade for good, together.
*Sourcery and our Partners are already laying the ground work our other agri and commodity divisions as the same Partner organisations we already work with grow, process, manufacturer and sell (and buy) much more than cotton and textiles.