Unwrapping 2025 on Sourcery: A Year in Review

Unwrapping 2025 with Sourcery: A Look Back at the Year So Far

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been unwrapping what a year on Sourcery actually looks like. Not hypotheticals. Not aspirational workflows. Real usage, captured inside real projects.

What follows is a snapshot of how lighting teams are working today, based on activity across the platform in 2025 so far.

Time, reclaimed

So far in 2025, lighting teams using Sourcery have added 2,554 product line items into active projects.

In a traditional workflow, adding a product often means hunting down the latest schedule, copying specifications, pasting them into the right place, and repeating the process again and again. Even conservatively, that can take around five minutes per product.

In Sourcery, importing a product from Collections into Community takes about thirty seconds.

That difference of four and a half minutes per product adds up quickly.

Across those 2,554 product additions, teams have saved roughly 192 hours of manual work so far this year. That is the equivalent of 24 full workdays returned to design teams.

This is why verified content matters. It is not just about having products listed. It is about making trusted, reusable information available where work actually happens.

The scale of real projects

Lighting projects rarely rely on a single product line or a short list of familiar brands.

In 2025 so far, designers using Sourcery have specified 4,898 units across 493 unique manufacturer brands.

That is the reality of lighting work. Hundreds of brands. Thousands of decisions. Constant pressure to move quickly without losing accuracy or intent.

Looking more closely at individual projects, a typical lighting project includes 12 to 18 distinct product line items, sourced from 7 to 10 different manufacturers.

And sometimes, projects push far beyond the typical.

The largest project in the dataset this year included 99 distinct product line items spanning 54 different manufacturers.

This is the environment modern lighting teams are designing in. Tools need to support that scale, not fight it.

The designer’s toolbox

Across projects, patterns start to emerge.

The core toolbox that shows up again and again includes:

• Downlights and recessed workhorses
• Track and adjustable accents
• Linear systems
• Pendants and decorative features
• Wall lighting

Layered on top of that core are additional elements that complete a full project:

• Cove and indirect glow
• Landscape and path lighting
• Facade and wall grazing

Having these core tools saved, organized, and ready to deploy makes a meaningful difference. It reduces repetitive work and helps teams stay consistent across projects.

Data that protects intent

Behind every fixture is a set of decisions that need to hold together as a project evolves.

On average, Sourcery tracks 52 data points per fixture.

That data exists to remove guesswork, reduce rework, and preserve intent as revisions stack up, teams grow, and projects move from concept to delivery.

When data is structured properly, designers move faster, teams stay aligned, manufacturers are represented accurately, and decisions do not get lost along the way.

Attribution and context

Projects do not stand still, and neither do decisions.

So far in 2025, Sourcery has logged more than 3,430 comments across projects. Real conversations captured directly alongside the work.

In addition, the platform has recorded over 6,000 edits through history tracking logs.

Every change. Every revision. Every adjustment preserved, so teams do not have to rely on memory, inbox searches, or old PDFs to understand how a project arrived at its current state.

This is what attribution looks like in practice. A clear record of why something changed and how decisions were shaped over time.

Discovery, captured

Product discovery happens in many ways. Online research. Past projects. Recommendations. And yes, in person at industry events.

In 2025, designers scanned 2,090 products using Sourcery across two major industry shows:

• 1,185 scans at Canada Light Expo
• 905 scans at ArchLIGHT Summit

Those scans represent moments of real interest captured at the time they happened and carried forward into usable project information, instead of fading away after the show floor clears.

What unwrapping revealed

Taken together, these numbers tell a clear story.

Lighting work is detailed. It is data-rich. It involves constant coordination across products, brands, teams, and decisions. The work is not simple, and it should not be treated as such.

Unwrapping 2025 has been about making that work visible. Understanding how lighting teams are actually operating today, and using that understanding to build workflows that reduce friction without stripping away precision.

This is what we are building at Sourcery. A platform designed to support how lighting work really happens.

More to unwrap soon.

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