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While the world races toward AI-generated answers, one founder is going back to the Source
London-based art historian and provenance researcher Angelina Giovani-Agha launches Source, a human-powered research marketplace that connects researchers worldwide with real archives, real documents, and real people. Available now on iOS and Android.
At a moment when artificial intelligence promises instant answers to every question, Source is launching with a deliberate and countercultural proposition: that the most important knowledge in the world cannot be generated, summarised, or simulated. It can only be retrieved.
Source is a global research marketplace that connects individuals who need access to offline archival materials with verified researchers, students, and academics who are physically present in the institutions, libraries, and collections that hold them. Those fulfilling requests are paid for their time as research assistants, turning hours already spent in archives and libraries into flexible, meaningful income.
A historian in Toronto can commission a student in Singapore to retrieve documents from the National Archives. A lawyer in Paris can access records held in a Buenos Aires registry. A collector in New York can verify provenance through an archive in the Balkans, without boarding a plane.
I built Source because I need it. Archives across Latin America, Russia, the Balkans, and Asia hold vast research that exists entirely offline, catalogued only in their original language. This is often an insurmountable barrier for foreign researchers, but not for those already there. Source is intentionally counter-cultural: while the world races toward AI-generated answers, we connect the people who need information with the people who can simply walk in and get it. None of them hallucinate.
Source launches at a pivotal cultural moment. As AI-generated content proliferates and concerns about misinformation intensify, Source takes the opposite position to the prevailing tide of technology: it does not generate, summarise, or simulate information. Every request on Source is fulfilled by a verified human being, working with physical materials, within copyright and fair use limits. None of them hallucinate.
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Source is a peer-to-peer research marketplace that connects people who need offline archival material with verified researchers, students, and academics who are physically present in the libraries, archives, and collections that hold it. A historian in Toronto can commission a student in Singapore to retrieve a document. A lawyer in Paris can access a registry in Buenos Aires, without boarding a plane. Every request is fulfilled by a real person working with physical records, within copyright and fair use limits, so nothing is generated, summarised, or hallucinated. Researchers are paid for their time, turning hours already spent in archives into flexible income. Founded in 2026 by art historian and provenance researcher Angelina Giovani-Agha, Source is available on iOS and Android, with researchers in more than 75 cities across over 30 countries.
Source is a peer-to-peer research marketplace that connects people who need offline archival material with verified researchers who can physically access it. Founded in 2026 by Angelina Giovani-Agha, Source is available on iOS and Android, with researchers in more than 75 cities across over 30 countries.
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For more detail on how requests work and pricing, see the Source FAQ.
About the founder
Angelina Giovani-Agha is an art historian and provenance researcher based in London. In 2017, she co-founded Flynn & Giovani Art Provenance Research with Dr Tom Flynn, establishing herself as a leading voice in provenance investigation and ethical collecting. The firm has researched artworks now part of prestigious collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Musée d'Orsay, and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
She has advised private collectors, museums, and the art trade on provenance issues, and was appointed Provenance Research Specialist at the Court of Arbitration for Art in The Hague in 2020. She has guest lectured at the Courtauld, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Sotheby's, Christie's, and the University of Zurich, among others.
In 2022, she created the Collections Provenance Rating, a tool that measures the risk level of artworks and collections based on the state of their documentation. The following year, she founded the Art Market Academy, an online learning environment that has trained hundreds of students worldwide and is available in over 10 languages. Source is her most ambitious venture to date, built from a decade of first-hand experience navigating the world's most inaccessible archives.
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