Consulting channel partnerships

Deliver value beyond your client’s wildest dreams. Now.

Multiply your teams capabilities with AI superpowers, get results faster with an automatic leave-behind, and empower your client in your absence.

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Consulting channel partnerships

Deliver value beyond your client’s wildest dreams. Now.

Multiply your teams capabilities with AI superpowers, get results faster with an automatic leave-behind, and empower your client in your absence.

Interior of a large industrial manufacturing facility with overhead conveyor equipment

Consulting channel partnerships

Deliver value beyond your client’s wildest dreams. Now.

Multiply your teams capabilities with AI superpowers, get results faster with an automatic leave-behind, and empower your client in your absence.

Interior of a large industrial manufacturing facility with overhead conveyor equipment

Where procurement delivery transformation falls short

Transformation efforts rely on one off analytics, bespoke workflows, and static deliverables. Insights fail to carry forward, so delivery scales with effort rather than compounding impact.

Analytics modeling is still stuck in Excel

Rapid sourcing waves rely on one off Excel models for bid analysis, slowing iteration as bids change and preventing insights from scaling across workstreams.

Deliverables become static leave behinds

Most sourcing work lives in decks and spreadsheets that never connect to execution, so logic and context are lost after the engagement ends and each new sourcing wave starts from scratch.

Every engagement reinvents the procurement playbook

Sourcing approaches often vary by team and project, preventing best practices from compounding and forcing workflows to be rebuilt instead of reused.

Delivery still scales linearly with headcount

As client sourcing volume increases, delivery still scales linearly with effort, turning procurement transformation into a resourcing constraint that compresses margins and limits impact.

The reason why we love LightSource so much is we have quarterly RFQs on our tail spend which is a tremendous amount of volume and vendors – it’s a huge number – and this platform allows us to conduct those with ease.

Eugene Galdi
Chief Procurement Officer

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The reason why we love LightSource so much is we have quarterly RFQs on our tail spend which is a tremendous amount of volume and vendors – it’s a huge number – and this platform allows us to conduct those with ease.

Eugene Galdi
Chief Procurement Officer

LightSource logo
3D rendering of translucent blue molecular spheres representing chemical compounds
The reason why we love LightSource so much is we have quarterly RFQs on our tail spend which is a tremendous amount of volume and vendors – it’s a huge number – and this platform allows us to conduct those with ease.

Eugene Galdi
Chief Procurement Officer

LightSource logo
3D rendering of translucent blue molecular spheres representing chemical compounds

Transform procurement delivery into a scalable system

LightSource enables faster, automated analysis, standardized processes, and real time collaboration across sourcing waves.

Efficient bid analysis and award optimization

Optimize awards in real time as suppliers submit quotes, using pre built bid analysis and a zero code optimization builder.

bill of materials management

Efficient bid analysis and award optimization

Optimize awards in real time as suppliers submit quotes, using pre built bid analysis and a zero code optimization builder.

bill of materials management

Efficient bid analysis and award optimization

Optimize awards in real time as suppliers submit quotes, using pre built bid analysis and a zero code optimization builder.

bill of materials management

Standardized procurement playbook

Equip consultants with your firm’s best-in-class procurement playbook on LightSource that standardizes RFQ templates, RFQ processes, supplier engagement, and data collection

bill of materials management

Standardized procurement playbook

Equip consultants with your firm’s best-in-class procurement playbook on LightSource that standardizes RFQ templates, RFQ processes, supplier engagement, and data collection

bill of materials management

Standardized procurement playbook

Equip consultants with your firm’s best-in-class procurement playbook on LightSource that standardizes RFQ templates, RFQ processes, supplier engagement, and data collection

bill of materials management

From files to fully executable workflows

LightSource turns consulting deliverables into live sourcing workflows clients can run independently and scale after the engagement.

bill of materials management

From files to fully executable workflows

LightSource turns consulting deliverables into live sourcing workflows clients can run independently and scale after the engagement.

bill of materials management

From files to fully executable workflows

LightSource turns consulting deliverables into live sourcing workflows clients can run independently and scale after the engagement.

bill of materials management

Real-time collaboration for faster impact

Centralize consultant-buyer and consultant-buyer-supplier communications in LightSource with complete audit trails and AI-curated conversation summaries

bill of materials management

Real-time collaboration for faster impact

Centralize consultant-buyer and consultant-buyer-supplier communications in LightSource with complete audit trails and AI-curated conversation summaries

bill of materials management

Real-time collaboration for faster impact

Centralize consultant-buyer and consultant-buyer-supplier communications in LightSource with complete audit trails and AI-curated conversation summaries

bill of materials management

Details

The enterprise grade
platform you can trust

Here's how LightSource meets the critical requirements of modern enterprise procurement technology:

Security & Compliance

SOC 2 Type 2 certified with continuous observation and industry-leading security controls.

Trusted by aerospace, defense, and Fortune 500 manufacturers to protect sensitive sourcing data and intellectual property with enterprise grade security infrastructure. Connect existing identity access management (IDP) platforms like Okta, Azure AD, or multiple systems, with SAML SSO and SCIM for automated, secure user provisioning.

Reliability & Support

LightSource delivers enterprise-grade reliability through a modern AWS-hosted architecture with high-performance RUST backend, robust fault-tolerant systems, and best-in-class dynamic scaling that ensures consistent global accessibility.

Expert support from former McKinsey procurement consultants enables buyers launching their first RFQs to dramatically accelerating time-to-value compared to legacy systems.

Rapid Implementation

LightSource’s deployment can be completed in days compared to 6-18 months for legacy systems.

Customers can start within hours using flat file uploads, and scale into full integrations at any pace. Our team guides you through onboarding to ensure fast time-to-value.

Global Scalability & Accessibility

Built for enterprise organizations operating worldwide.

The only procurement platform with native accessibility in mainland China, using the lightsource.cn domain to ensure reliable access and collaboration for users, suppliers, and buyers in mainland China without VPN requirements.

Details

The enterprise grade platform you can trust

Here's how LightSource meets the critical requirements of modern enterprise procurement technology:

Security & Compliance

SOC 2 Type 2 certified with continuous observation and industry-leading security controls.

Trusted by aerospace, defense, and Fortune 500 manufacturers to protect sensitive sourcing data and intellectual property with enterprise grade security infrastructure. Connect existing identity access management (IDP) platforms like Okta, Azure AD, or multiple systems, with SAML SSO and SCIM for automated, secure user provisioning.

Reliability & Support

LightSource delivers enterprise-grade reliability through a modern AWS-hosted architecture with high-performance RUST backend, robust fault-tolerant systems, and best-in-class dynamic scaling that ensures consistent global accessibility.

Expert support from former McKinsey procurement consultants enables buyers launching their first RFQs to dramatically accelerating time-to-value compared to legacy systems.

Rapid Implementation

LightSource’s deployment can be completed in days compared to 6-18 months for legacy systems.

Customers can start within hours using flat file uploads, and scale into full integrations at any pace. Our team guides you through onboarding to ensure fast time-to-value.

Global Scalability & Accessibility

Built for enterprise organizations operating worldwide.

The only procurement platform with native accessibility in mainland China, using the lightsource.cn domain to ensure reliable access and collaboration for users, suppliers, and buyers in mainland China without VPN requirements.

Details

The enterprise grade
platform you can trust

Here's how LightSource meets the critical requirements of modern enterprise procurement technology:

Security & Compliance

SOC 2 Type 2 certified with continuous observation and industry-leading security controls.

Trusted by aerospace, defense, and Fortune 500 manufacturers to protect sensitive sourcing data and intellectual property with enterprise grade security infrastructure. Connect existing identity access management (IDP) platforms like Okta, Azure AD, or multiple systems, with SAML SSO and SCIM for automated, secure user provisioning.

Reliability & Support

LightSource delivers enterprise-grade reliability through a modern AWS-hosted architecture with high-performance RUST backend, robust fault-tolerant systems, and best-in-class dynamic scaling that ensures consistent global accessibility.

Expert support from former McKinsey procurement consultants enables buyers launching their first RFQs to dramatically accelerating time-to-value compared to legacy systems.

Rapid Implementation

LightSource’s deployment can be completed in days compared to 6-18 months for legacy systems.

Customers can start within hours using flat file uploads, and scale into full integrations at any pace. Our team guides you through onboarding to ensure fast time-to-value.

Global Scalability & Accessibility

Built for enterprise organizations operating worldwide.

The only procurement platform with native accessibility in mainland China, using the lightsource.cn domain to ensure reliable access and collaboration for users, suppliers, and buyers in mainland China without VPN requirements.

Faster sourcing. Lower cost. Less chaos.

Try out LightSource and you’ll never go back to Excel and email.

SOC 2

Kearney #1 2024

Gartner Cool Vendor

Procuretech 100

G2 Top Rated

Faster sourcing. Lower cost. Less chaos.

Try out LightSource and you’ll never go back to Excel and email.

Faster sourcing. Lower cost. Less chaos.

Try out LightSource and you’ll never go back to Excel and email.

SOC 2

Kearney #1 2024

Gartner Cool Vendor

Procuretech 100

G2 Top Rated

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