
Work With Your Handz Named to the 2026 Inc. 5000 List of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies
Skilled trades recruiting firm ranks No. 4713 overall, No. 123 among staffing and recruiting companies nationwide
HAYMARKET, Va., Sept. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Work With Your Handz, a national workforce solutions firm serving skilled trades and service-driven organizations, today announced it has been named to the 2026 Inc. 5000, the annual ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The list represents a snapshot of the most successful companies within the American economy's most dynamic segment, its independent small and midsized businesses.
Work With Your Handz ranked No. 4713 overall, with a three-year revenue growth rate of 30.26%. The company also placed No. 123 among staffing and recruiting companies, No. 237 in Virginia and No. 229 in the Washington, D.C. metro area.
Founded in 2018 by Kelly Rowlett Presgrave, Work With Your Handz built its recruiting model in high-volume residential services, an environment where hiring moves fast and margin for error is thin. That model now supports direct hire, contract and temp-to-perm placements across residential, commercial, facilities and industrial-adjacent markets, covering roles from frontline technicians and apprentices through supervisors, managers and executive leadership. The firm has delivered more than 2,500 lifetime placements and maintains an average time-to-fill of approximately 34 days across roles and geographies nationwide.
"Being recognized on the Inc. 5000 is especially meaningful because our growth has come from staying focused on a very real challenge facing businesses across the country: finding and retaining the skilled people they need to grow," said Kelly Rowlett Presgrave, Founder, President and CEO of Work With Your Handz. "This recognition belongs to our entire team and reflects the trust our clients have placed in us. We've continued to evolve how we recruit, invest in technology and AI, and deepen our partnerships across the skilled trades, while never losing sight of the fact that recruiting is ultimately about people. As we look ahead, our focus is on scaling Work With Your Handz nationally, expanding our reach across residential, commercial and other skilled-trades sectors, and continuing to develop new ways to help our clients solve one of their biggest barriers to growth: talent."
The 2026 Inc. 5000 recognizes companies that have grown despite a labor market defined by persistent skills shortages, wage pressure and rising demand for specialized technical talent. For Work With Your Handz, that growth has come from staying narrowly focused: understanding the safety, compliance, geographic and seasonal realities specific to skilled trades, then applying a repeatable process to source, vet and place talent quickly without sacrificing fit.
Inc. editor-in-chief Mike Hofman has described this year's honorees as companies built on persistence and sound decision-making, businesses that kept growing through rising costs and a shifting labor market rather than in spite of them. That description tracks closely with the environment skilled trades employers are operating in right now, and it is the environment Work With Your Handz built its business to serve.
Work With Your Handz plans to continue expanding its bench of skilled and leadership-level talent while extending its recruiting blueprint into new industrial-adjacent verticals in the year ahead.
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About Work With Your Handz
Work With Your Handz is a national workforce solutions firm founded in 2018 to solve a challenge shared across every skilled trade and service-driven industry: finding reliable, qualified people in competitive, labor-constrained markets. Rooted in residential services, the company has built a recruiting blueprint that now supports skilled trades and service organizations across residential, commercial, facilities and industrial-adjacent environments, with direct hire, contract and temp-to-perm solutions covering roles from frontline and apprentice positions through supervisors, managers and executive leadership. Learn more at www.workwithyourhandz.com.
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