About
Construction tech has a distribution problem, not a product problem.
We're the pin.
The name
Drift pin. Wrx. The alignment shop.
Drift comes from the drift pin. It's a tapered piece of steel an ironworker carries on his belt. When two beams that were engineered to bolt together show up on the jobsite and the holes don't line up, the drift pin gets driven through to force the alignment until the bolt can go in. The connection was always supposed to exist. The pin makes it possible.
Wrx is works, as in ironworks, steelworks, gasworks. A shop where things get made by people who make things.
DriftWrx is the alignment shop.
Manifesto
Nobody writes about the pin.
Every ironworker carries a drift pin.
It's a tapered piece of steel, no moving parts, nothing clever about it. It comes out when two beams that were engineered to bolt together show up on the jobsite and the holes don't line up. Not because anybody did the math wrong. Because steel moves, and the field is not the drawing.
So the ironworker drives the pin through. Forces the holes true. The bolt goes in. The building stands.
Nobody writes about the pin. It doesn't show up in the rendering. But without it the connection that was supposed to exist just doesn't.
That's the job.
You built something contractors need. That part is done, and it was the hard part. But the crew that would use it has never heard your name, the distributor rep won't carry it, and the guy who decides has bought four things this year that didn't work and isn't in a hurry to buy a fifth. The product is right. The buyer is right. The holes don't line up.
We drive the pin.
We know the buyer because we were the buyer. We've been on the roof, on the payroll, in the truck at 6am with a close rate to hit. We don't hand you a deck and wish you luck. We own the number, we bring the spotlight, and we build the channel until you can run it without us.
Then we leave. That's the point. A pin that stays in the hole is a pin that failed. Once the bolt is set, the pin comes out and goes back on the belt.
Founder
John Dye

Founder & Principal
Contractor first, operator second, go-to-market last. DriftWrx exists because the fastest way into this market is someone the market already knows.
Founding GTM executive at XBuild
An a16z-backed Series A. Built sales, marketing, customer success, and partnerships from zero.
Twenty years in the field
Insurance restoration, supplementing, and roofing operations. Was the buyer before selling to the buyer.
American Contractor Show
Roughly 1.6M followers across the residential trades.
DIALED Contractor
The industry's tool index — 200+ products — plus the podcast and the Field Test format.
Standing relationships
Across the vendor landscape and the distributor and manufacturer side.
Your product and your buyer were built to bolt together.
If the holes don't line up, that's the work we do. Tell us what you've built and who you're trying to reach.
