What If Lighting Designers Created Their Own Project Software?

At LightFair, last week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Mike Bishop, VP of Sales, at Sourcery, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Sourcery is a lighting design project collaboration software platform created by lighting designers for lighting specifiers, reps, and manufacturers. It is a social collaborative platform for design industry professionals to seamlessly collaborate with one another when specifying and procuring products in every phase of a project. It makes the process of selecting and procuring products for commercial construction easier and more efficient.

Sourcery was not created by software people, it was created by and for lighting specifiers:

• To use modern cloud computing tools to create a single point of truth, for a project, with all information in one spot.
• To be the birthplace of the digital twin.
• To simplify product selection by maintaining libraries and custom collections of products to create curated categorized lists, assign to projects, and generate luminaire schedules in a few clicks.
• To collaborate through a live luminaire schedule that improves the process of specifying lighting products and collaboration during design.
• To enhance transparency through a project management companion, to make the procurement process transparent throughout all stages of design, budgeting, bidding and construction.
• To provide a direct connection to products and sourcing new manufacturers.
• To provide the project specifier full control over who has access to specific documents, schedules, libraries, pricing, and other important information.

More information about Sourcery is available here.

David Shiller

David Shiller is the Publisher of LightNOW, and Senior Business Development Consultant at Capacity Consulting, a North American consulting firm providing business development services to advanced lighting manufacturers. The ALA awarded David the Pillar of the Industry Award. David has been co-chair of the ALA’s Engineering Committee since 2010. David established MaxLite’s OEM component sales into a multi-million dollar division. He invented GU24 lamps while leading ENERGY STAR lighting programs for the US EPA. David has been published in leading lighting publications, including LD+A, enLIGHTenment Magazine, LEDs Magazine, and more.

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