Why We Are Building Dryvn

We’ve released Dryvn Pro to our first 100 businesses. That is a major milestone for us, and it feels like the right time to explain something I haven’t spoken about enough: why I wanted to build this company in the first place.

The long-term goal is to acquire land, grow food, and give it to people who need it, for free. Winds of the Spirit is the foundation I want to build around that purpose. My intention is for Dryvn’s success to help fund it.

The farm came first. The platform was built to help make it possible.

That purpose is in our early company records. As the software has grown and changed, it has remained part of why I’m doing this.

Starting with the work I know

After 20 years in construction, I know what it takes to keep a business moving. The work on site is only part of it. There are enquiries to answer, quotes to finish, people to coordinate, changes to record, and payments to follow up.

You can be good at your trade and still spend your evenings catching up on the business around it. You get home, but you’re still thinking about the customer waiting for an answer or the detail you need to remember tomorrow.

That is a problem I understand well enough to want to work on. Dryvn is being built to help owners and their teams carry that workload, keep information connected, and follow things through.

The business has to be useful in its own right. People should choose Dryvn because it helps them do their work. We have to earn their trust through the product and the support behind it.

If we do that well and build a profitable company, I want some of what it creates to support people beyond our customer base.

Why land and food

Food is a practical place to put that purpose to work. A family should be able to receive something they need without another bill attached to it.

The original plan centred on a farm in the Fraser Valley. Over time, the vision has grown to include land in different areas, with more food reaching more communities as we develop the resources and ability to support them.

Land matters because it can give the work a lasting home. With care, skilled people, and proper funding, it can keep producing across growing seasons.

But owning land is only part of the job. Someone has to look after the soil, plan the crops, maintain equipment, harvest, store the food safely, and get it to people who can use it. The costs continue after a property is purchased.

I want us to build something people can depend on. That means paying attention to how the food reaches a household and whether it is useful to them, as much as how much we can grow.

The goal is food provided at no cost to the recipient. Help should come with dignity. People should not have to buy our software, promote the company, or share our beliefs to receive it.

Building support that lasts

Dryvn is intended to contribute a portion of future profits to Winds of the Spirit. The longer-term vision also includes an endowment: money invested to help support the ongoing cost of the work.

I want the mission to become less dependent on my personal time and on how the software business performs in any one year. That takes patient funding, capable people, and clear responsibility.

An endowment is a goal we have to build toward. It takes capital and careful management, and investment income is never guaranteed. The same is true of the farms. They need operating support as well as land.

The amount we can do will depend on what we can actually fund and sustain. I would rather make a smaller commitment that people can rely on than promise more than we can deliver.

Dryvn AI and Winds of the Spirit are intended to remain separate organizations. The software company serves its customers. The foundation’s purpose is to support food access, with its own governance and financial records. The relationship needs to be clear enough that people can see what was contributed and what it made possible.

What Winds of the Spirit means to me

“The wind of the spirit fills the sails of our souls.”

That line has been part of Dryvn since the early work. My faith is part of the reason behind this. I believe that if I have the opportunity to build something successful, I also have a responsibility to think about who else it can help.

I want that belief to lead to practical work: land cared for, food grown, and people fed.

People will come to this with different beliefs and experiences. The purpose is to help people who need food. The welcome should be clear.

Where we are now

The release of Dryvn Pro to the first 100 businesses is a step forward for the company. The land and free-food work described here is the longer-term mission we are working toward. This paper is not an announcement of a farm opening or an invitation to donate.

There is still work to do on the foundation’s structure, funding, and operations. We need to be honest about that while being equally clear about the direction.

For Dryvn, the immediate responsibility is to support the businesses using the platform, listen to what they need, and make the product better. Their time and trust matter.

For Winds of the Spirit, progress should eventually be visible in what we can sustain: land secured for the purpose, a properly supported operation, and food reaching people for free.

I’m proud that we’ve reached this release. I also want the people following Dryvn to understand what I hope that progress makes possible.

I want to build a useful company, use part of its success to acquire and care for land, and help feed people who need it. That is why we are doing this.