Partners

Transforming Trade, Together.

We are producers, manufacturers, traders and brands—working together across fibre, food, timber, and fisheries to transform trade for good.

Click on a Partner type below to learn more:

Producer Partner

https://www.thesourcery.io/sourcery-partners#producer

Manufacturer Partner

Trade Partner

Brand Partner

Built By the Trade. For The Trade.

Built by the Trade. For the Trade

As a member-owned platform, Sourcery was purpose-built to serve its Partners ensuring every product and solution advances the transformation of trade for good.

Trade Smarter. Grower Faster. Accelerate Impact.

Our Partners, Investors and Experience

“Why try to beat the competition when you can rewrite the rules.”

- Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne

Blue Ocean Strategy

Producer Partner

Producer Partner

Sell directly to trusted buyers—on your terms.

Reach global markets, streamline transactions, logistics and get paid for impact by build long-term relationships with traders, manufacturers and brands.

  • Individual growers (farmers), ranchers, and agri-business enterprises are primarily engaged in growing, raising, harvesting, and selling raw agricultural produce and materials to aggregators, co-ops, processors, merchants, or directly to manufacturers.

    Participation requires at least one legal person (sole proprietor or entity) and a minimum of one hectare of owned, leased, or managed land (e.g., farm or grazing land).

    Ownership of processing facilities is optional.

  • Individual foresters, harvesters, and forest product enterprises are primarily engaged in managing, collecting, harvesting, and selling raw materials from forests—such as timber, berries, and other forest products—to aggregators, co-ops, processors, merchants, or directly to manufacturers.

    Participation requires at least one legal person (individual or entity) and a minimum of one hectare of owned, leased, or managed land or resource area (e.g., farm, field, forrest).

    Ownership of processing facilities is optional.

  • Individual fishermen, aquaculturists, and aquatic resource enterprises are primarily engaged in catching, cultivating, and selling raw aquatic products—such as fish, shellfish, seaweed, and other marine or freshwater resources—to aggregators, co-ops, processors, merchants, or directly to manufacturers.

    Participation requires at least one legal person (individual or entity) and a minimum of one owned, leased, or managed resource area (e.g., coastal waters, inland water bodies, ponds, or aquaculture systems).

    Ownership of processing facilities is optional.

  • Multi-grower or producer organizations—such as grower co-operatives, farm groups, and producer associations—are comprised of 25 or more individual growers, ranchers, foresters, harvestors, fisherman organized under one or more legal entities with cooperative-based governance, financial administration, and internal control systems. These entities coordinate the production and sale of raw materials and produce to aggregators, processors, merchants, or manufacturers.

    Participation requires a minimum of 25 individual/entities and at least 25 hectares of owned, leased, or managed land or resource area (e.g., farm, ranch, forest, water, etc).

    Ownership or operation of processing facilities is optional.

Manufacturer Partner

Manufacturer Partner

Source verified raw materials with transparency, efficiency, and impact—direct from the source.

Trade directly with trusted producers, traders, and manufacturers. Streamline sourcing, intelligently manage your portfolio, and close deals faster—with full transparency and control.

  • Processor raw fibre, food and feed into bales and other bulk preparing for manufacturers, traders and value add additions.

    • Cotton Gins

    • Wool Sorting, Scouring, Tops

    • Scutching mills

    • Abattoir and Beamhouse

    • Food Sorting and Cleaning

    • Grain Mills

    • Lumber and Paper Mills

  • Organisations that manufacturer fibre and yarn or fabric in their owned and operated facilities and sell yarn, fabric and finished goods to other manufacturer, traders and brands.

    • Yarn Spinners

    • Fabric Mill

    • Assembly/CMT

    • Wet Processors and Finishing

  • Organisations that manufacturer food, feed and FMCGs in their and own and leased facilities and sell bulk and/or packaged and wholesale goods to other manufacturers, traders and brands and retailers.

Trade Partner

Trade Partner

Trade smarter. Expand your network. Manage everything in one place.

Digitize your portfolio, automate workflows, and offer financing, storage, and marketing services—while closing more deals with verified producers, manufacturers, and brands.

All within one trusted, end-to-end platform.

  • Organizations (or individuals) that collect, aggregate and/or purchase raw materials and feedstocks from Producer Partners and sell to transfer to Manufacturer Partners, mostly processors.

  • Organisations who forward or spot purchase/contract fibre, food, feed and timber, products to third-parties including manufacturers and other traders.

    Merchants/Trader may own and operate their own processing facility (e.g. gin) and must register it as a Verified Place in Connect.

  • Individuals or organisations that market and sell fibre, food, feed, timber and products on behalf of producers, manufacturer, traders and receive a commission fee.

    Commission agents do now own the transacted material. All Commission Agents must sign Trade Representation Agreement (TRA) to trade on Connect.

  • Organisations who develop, purchase specialty yarn, fabric and convert and resell to manufacturers and brands.

    Generally do not own or operate a textile production facility.

  • Organisations who provide road, rail, marine and air shipping and logistics services including warehouse, carriers, freight forwarders and transport technology solutions.

    Generally do not buy or sell commodities directly as counter-party.

Brand Partner

Brand Partner

Source commodities and products directly with greater transparency, efficiency, and impact.

Connect and trade with verified manufacturers, traders, and producers. Access real-time transactional, compliance, and impact data—fully aligned with your environmental, social, and broader business goals.

  • Organisations that purchase finished or packaged good (FMCGs)from Manufacturer Partners and directly to wholesalers, other distributors, brands and retailers and selectively directly to end consumers.

    • Importers

    • Distributors

    • Licensee (a branded produce from Brand or Retailer)

  • Organisations that purchase finished or packaged (FMCGs) goods from Manufacturer Partners, Importers and Distributors and sell directly to end consumers via retail.

    • Brands

    • Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)

    • Retailers

Partner Benefits and Outcomes

  • Marketplace

    Effortlessly connect, engage, buy and sell directly with trusted Sourcery Partners in international markets, anytime and anywhere.

  • Trade with more confidence, peace of mind and trust using digital intelligence to ensure transparency, mutual accountability and mitigate risk.

  • One Tool

    Direct communication, engagement and accelerated deal flow—all the tools you need to trade—all in once place.

  • Reduce trade complexity, uncertainty, cost and risk by streamlining transactions and improving operational performance and speed.

  • Data Privacy

    All transactions are private and secure visible and accessible to only the buyer and seller. Data is stored in your Personal Data Vault (PDV) and is encrypted using AES 256.

  • Improve visibility and confidence across all transactions through optional third-party assessments, sample collection and laboratory testing on all products.

  • More effectively navigate local and international trade regulations using digital intelligence to guide every transaction, anywhere in the world.

  • Transact with real-time traceability and authenticity while ensuring privacy while protecting trade intelligence, vendor relationships and transactions.

  • Earn more recognition and financial reward through by licensing transactional and impact data—ensuring transparency and impact drives profitability.

  • All Partners can profit from the transformation of trade for good across all commodities by owning the future of trade, together.

Partner Principles

The Sourcery approach is grounded in six guiding principles. Transparency, efficiency, and trust shape how trade happens; inclusivity, impact, and equity ensure that the transformation of trade for good benefits feveryone—from producer to consumer.

Owned by the Trade.

Sourcery Partners recognize that the future of trade depends on their collective leadership, investment, and commitment to the transformation.

Producer, Manufacturer, Trade, and Brand Partners can earn or purchase equity in Sourcery—owning the transformation of trade for good.

  1. 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.

Impact and Assurance Partners

Transparency, efficiency, trust and impact in trade requires innovation, intervention, expertise, guidance, verification and investment at scale.

Impact Partner

  • Transparency, efficiency, trust and impact in trade requires innovation, intervention, expertise, guidance and shared accountability at scale.

    • Input and Agronomy Solutions

    • Impact Assessors

    • Standards and Certifications

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Assurance Partner

  • Essential to the transformation of trade for good, Sourcery Partners require visibility and trust across all seed, fibre, yarn and fabric transactions—ensuring quality, integrity, authenticity and verified impact.

    Assurance Partners provide independent third-party data collection, farm and facility data verification, sample collection and laboratory testing services to Sourcery and its Commercial Partners under the Transparent Trade and Intelligent Impact solutions including Sourcery’s BlueTrace™ System.

    • Certification Agency/Verifier

    • Testing Laboratories

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Trust in Trade 

is Everything.