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What we build

Soren builds the infrastructure of field procurement — for construction sites, industry, energy, and everyone who operates far from a desk.

A market worth more than €1,000 billion still largely runs on Excel files, phone calls and paper documents.

Here is our universe, mission after mission.

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Mission 01Why we exist

Cutting waste out of field procurement

Construction accounts for about 10% of French GDP, with margins often close to 3%. Every point counts.

Yet procurement represents 40 to 70% of a project's cost — and 10 to 15% of that spend is lost every year. On every project. Every year.

Existing tools were designed for the office, not the field: desktop interfaces bypassed by the teams, manual sourcing, extensions handled over the phone, invoices re-keyed into the ERP.

10%
of French GDP
40–70%
of a project's cost
10–15%
of spend lost

Our conviction: whoever structures purchasing data at the source — the moment a need is born in the field — takes control of the market.

Mission 02Where we operate

From construction to every field environment

French construction alone represents €210 billion and nearly 1.5 million people.

But our playing field is much wider: industrial sites, energy and water networks, infrastructure, facilities… Anywhere teams operate far from a desk with the same constraints.

In these sectors, operational decisions are still largely made over the phone, in Excel, or on paper delivery notes.

It is for the people living that reality that we build.

  • The works supervisor

    Spends part of every day chasing suppliers, updating Excel files and running after delivery notes.

  • The site manager

    In the field, without a truly suitable mobile tool, they coordinate teams, HQ and suppliers by phone — with its share of oversights and wasted time.

  • The buyer or expediter

    Deals with slow approvals, a heavy ERP, and quotes, discrepancies and disputes handled by hand — without real-time visibility on operations.

  • The equipment manager

    Has to track fleet availability, regulatory inspections and equipment scattered across several sites, with information that is rarely centralised.

Mission 03Where we create value

Turning procurement into a real performance lever

On a project, procurement represents 40 to 70% of total cost.

No other part of the budget lets a few points of optimisation produce such a direct impact on margin.

Spend splits across five main categories. Our historical entry point is equipment rental: a market we know inside out.

  • Materials30–40%
  • Subcontracting20–40%
  • Equipment rental· our entry point5–10%
  • Logistics3–5%
  • Tools and consumables< 5%

What traditional tools can't handle

Generic e-procurement suites work in homogeneous environments: serial production, fixed sites, stable catalogues and predictable processes.

They hit their limits in the field, where every project is different, needs change every week, and operational reality never fits neatly into a catalogue line.

We are not trying to rebuild Coupa. We build what traditional tools cannot cover.
Mission 04What we build

One platform connecting the field, the office and the suppliers

Soren connects the three worlds of field procurement — operational teams, the office and the suppliers — on a single platform.

With more than 2,500 suppliers already connected, our customers can start operating from day one.

In the field, an assistant supports the teams. They simply talk to it; it helps place orders, track deliveries and understand what is going on.

Artificial intelligence serving the field — never the other way around.

Field app

Order in seconds from a chat or mobile app, track deliveries and events in real time, centralise documents and compliance checks.

Office app

Manage suppliers, rules and purchasing workflows from a unified view, with structured data connected to the ERP.

Supplier app

Handle quotes, orders, resources and interventions in one place, track performance and streamline invoicing.

From need to invoice, one single flow
NeedQuoteOrderTrackingInvoice
Mission 05Where we come from

Turning scattered exchanges into structured data

In the field, an equipment need still often starts with a phone call.

A quote sent on the fly. A delivery expected on an approximate date. Information passed on orally, then lost between the site, the supplier and the office.

The field moves fast, but the data doesn't follow: incomplete purchase orders, unexplainable invoice gaps, suppliers picked out of habit, events never documented.

We saw that mess up close. We decided to connect everything.

The request, the quote, the order, the delivery, the event and the invoice stay attached to the same flow, in the same place.

Because a controlled purchase starts the moment the need is expressed. Everything else follows.

Mission 06How we work

Working as a crew, acting as entrepreneurs

  • 01

    We build like entrepreneurs

    We own our topics, from problem to outcome. Everyone is accountable for what they put into the world.

  • 02

    We move like a crew of pirates

    We are bold, fast and resourceful. We find a way through where others see a wall.

  • 03

    We never stop learning

    We look for truth in the field, question our certainties and get better with every mission.

We are not looking for order-takers. We are looking for free-spirited, demanding people able to chart their own course.

Few layers, little theatre, a lot of responsibility. We move as a crew, and the map is never finished.

Mission 07Where we're going

Building the infrastructure of field procurement

The layer where purchases are decided, placed, tracked and settled — wherever there is a job site, a plant, a facility or a network to maintain.

Not another tool.

The standard that gives control back to operational teams, visibility back to procurement, and time back to the people who build.

Equipment rental is our entry point. France, our first territory.

We are progressively opening the other verticals — materials, subcontracting, logistics — before expanding across Europe.

Vinci and Bouygues Construction already trust us. We build on that proof to write what comes next.

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Everything you need to understand how we work and picture yourself on board.

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A small team. Demanding customers. Hard problems to solve. And visible impact from the very first weeks.

If this universe speaks to you, we want to meet you.