About Sourcery

Why Sourcery exists, and the people behind it

Started by a lighting designer and a group of co-founders, Sourcery connects product data, lighting schedules and collaboration between designers and agents. Meet the lighting and software team building it.

Founded: 2020
Of lighting design experience behind our CEO: 25 years

Why we exist

Built by a lighting designer who wanted to see the whole path

Lighting designers should be able to see the whole path from specification to purchase. That belief is why Sourcery exists.

Sourcery started with a question lighting designers ask on almost every project: why is it so hard to see what happens between the specification and the purchase order? Prices, lead times, and product details move through email threads and spreadsheets, and the people who specify the lighting often have the least visibility into how it gets bought.

Paul Boken, Sourcery's CEO and co-founder, has spent 25 years as a lighting designer. He holds the LC, IALD, and CLD credentials and has worked on projects across North America, China, Turkey, and the Middle East. A long interest in how technology could open up lighting procurement is the founding thesis behind Sourcery, and behind his design practice, WeLight.

Paul founded Sourcery with co-founders and shareholders including Glenn Boccini, Paul Hudson, and Ben Fischer, who came together as the company's founding group in 2020. We built the platform to augment the lighting channel, not replace it. Designers, agents, and distributors do the work that makes projects happen, and our job is to give each of them better information and less busywork.

Today, a team of engineers and specialists in product, sales, and customer success carries that idea forward, with advisors who bring experience in the lighting industry, legal strategy, and software sales.

Who we are

Our team and advisors

Leadership and team

Paul BokenChief Executive Officer and Serial FounderRead bioHide bio
Paul is a serial founder and award-winning lighting designer with 25 years of experience, including North America's highest exterior lighting award for relighting Niagara Falls. His work spans attractions, bridges, cultural monuments, and theme parks across North America, China, Turkey, and the Middle East. Today he is redefining how project teams collaborate as co-founder of Sourcery, a cloud platform for specifying and coordinating project products.
Joel SpahnChief Technology OfficerRead bioHide bio
Joel is a builder, and his career has been defined by curiosity and a drive to create. With Lighting Analysts (now Revalize), he spent 20 years developing illumination engineering software, making significant contributions to industry-leading tools including AGI32 and ElumTools.
Luke BelcourtChief Product OfficerRead bioHide bio
Luke helps turn ideas into products that actually grow and scale. If product touches it, he is probably involved: vision, strategy, UX/UI, development, project management, team leadership, marketing, research, and innovation. He likes staying close to the work, not just directing it from afar.
Manmohan SinghLead DeveloperRead bioHide bio
Manmohan is an enthusiastic web developer with a demonstrated history of working in the IT industry. He is skilled in JavaScript and its frameworks, including Nuxt and AngularJS, and is a keen learner and a great mentor. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science from Chitkara University.

Jessie Blonstein
Customer Success and QA
Sarah Boken
Marketing
Noor Mohammad
Business Development
Daryl Ho
Senior Developer

Advisors

Ben Fischer
Founding Shareholder and Advisor
Paul Hudson
Co-Founder and Advisor
Terry Mocherniak
Legal and strategy
Glenn Boccini
Co-Founder and Advisor
Stefan Schwab
Industry and investor relations
Lance Hollner
Industry relationships
Ryan Poussant
Sales and SaaS

Talk to Sourcery

Whether you specify, sell, or supply lighting, we would like to hear how your projects run today.

Headquarters

Ontario, Canada and Denver, CO

Sourcery Procurement Platform Inc.

24 Maple Ave

Barrie, ON L4N 7W4, Canada

416-473-1300

Sourcery streamlines the process, providing management tools for easy development of specs and administration of a project from start to finish. Having everything in one place saves time and allows for more creativity.

Kelly Roberts

Primary Arc Design

The version control and comparison feature is something I didn’t know I needed until I had it. It helps find, verify, and align specs faster. Our team is excited by how much time it saves.

Lu-Yu Huang

Electrolight San Francisco

I uploaded a spec sheet to Sourcery and within a day had product-specific answers. The response time and transparency were unlike anything I’ve seen. It saved back-and-forth and let us move forward.

Joanna Nardangeli

X Design Inc.

Sourcery helped our team internally and improved how we communicate with manufacturers. It made our process more efficient and reduced friction—benefiting both specifiers and manufacturers.

John Sloane

Buro Happold

I think that that ultimately Sourcery will make specification easier and faster. I think the key to its success is a robust group of specification grade manufacturers who are willing to support new technology and stick with an upstart that disrupts the current status quo.

Shoshanna Segal

Hartranft Lighting Studios

Sourcery allows us to speed up our work flow by grabbing from products and auto-populating specifications from libraries of available products. It is a good as it saves time as well as provides easier and more visual coordination with our design partners.

Paul Marjin

HH Angus & Associates Ltd

Sourcery helps us streamline our workflow by allowing us to build the project fixture schedule as we evaluate and select fixtures for the project. The new Revit export feature is a tremendous improvement for project documentation.

Danny Streit

dHS Lighting Design

Sourcery simplifies our process instead of adding complexity. It saves hours by bringing clarity, accuracy, and accountability. Less time spent chasing info means more time focusing on design.

Oliver Littleton

Dark Light Design

As an agent, I can't emphasize enough how much Sourcery has enhanced our specification process. Sourcery has become a part of our agency’s workflow.

Visionz

As a specifier, there is no tool out there that makes me more efficient than Sourcery. No more paper catalogues, no more disjointed communication. It all now lives inside Sourcery.

Jesse B