Join the Mission?
Join the Simwerks Journey: Opportunities for Key Contributors
Simwerks LLC is looking for passionate individuals in the sim racing and sim flight scene to join our team. Email us at Info@simwerkspitt.com for more information and we'll send you an interest form.
What make Simwerks Special?
- Unrivaled Community Engagement: We are strategically building a robust community, which serves as a powerful differentiator. This fosters deep customer loyalty and creates a sticky business model that is difficult for competitors to replicate, securing consistent revenue streams. We do this by being well capitalized, refusing to build on debt, and manage our expenses. This will allow us to manage our margins to remain sustainable and allow our customers to justify coming back.
- The Professional's Choice, Delivered with Approachability: While others offer basic setups or overly exclusive environments, Simwerks strikes the perfect balance. We provide professional-grade simulators and an atmosphere designed for serious progression, making us the top choice for aspiring racers and dedicated enthusiasts, guaranteeing repeat business and higher average customer value.
- Authenticity as Our Edge: Our foundation is built on genuine passion and expertise within the sim racing/sim flight world. This insider perspective means we anticipate and deliver exactly what our customers want, ensuring immediate product-market fit and superior customer satisfaction compared to less specialized competitors.
- Diversified Growth Pathways: Our vision extends beyond the four walls of our studio. Simwerks is structured to capitalize on significant off-site opportunities – from trackside experiences to corporate events through our planned trailer build. This inherent scalability in a growing market like Pittsburgh's automotive scene ensures multiple avenues for revenue generation and long-term expansion.
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Why Invest in Simwerks (recapped)? Our difference from other sim venues is the customer's advantage. With over two decades of simulation experience, our founder brings an invaluable depth of knowledge to every aspect of Simwerks. This expertise isn't just passion; it's our competitive edge, enabling us to engineer and build our cutting-edge simulators with unparalleled cost efficiency and quality control. This unique capability allows us to launch a premium, community-focused venue in Pittsburgh, delivering a superior experience for less. We wont be built on debt, and our ability to keep margins low, means that we can reinvest in our equipment and people while keeping the cost to our patrons better than competitive. We are completing the final strategic steps before opening our doors, ready to lead the social simulation revolution.
June 2025 Update: We've secured nearly $200,000 in funding and equipment. Our second round of funding is expected in early 2026 for further expansion.
Have a passion to get this project underway? Consider a sponsorship or cobranded opportunity and reach out.
Still wondering is sim racing venues viable? Reach out for more info - but the short is that we believe they are, and our deep research into the venues that are thriving vs those that have failed set us a part. Simwerks is built by sim racing and flight enthusiasts for this community. Check here for more info on our Deep Research Page.
Simwerks Growth Plan
Venue
Open Simwerks sim racing and flight studio in the South Hills - Fall 2025
Expand Venue
Right size the venue, improve upon the simulator capacity, increase offerings. Offer co-branded offerings from beverage/coffee partners, ensure top quality venue experience at the right price point.
Gear Sales
Have a wide range of mid-tier and premium sim gear available for testing and purchasing.
Complete Home Sim Setups
Custom or take a sim right off the venue floor - depending on the need and budget - our customers will have the chance to test the equipment and buy what they need. Our Youtube channel will have numerous comparison guides that we can film in studio to help them make the right decision the first time.
The Foundry
Design, prototype, and build needed gear that makes sense for our customers and fills the gaps in current offerings. Specific focus on high quality components that allow flexibility on rigs while maintaining rigidity allowing for families to all get an equal experience and thereby justifying sim rigs more easily as a family experience.
Sim Trailer
We hope to build a sim trailer to take to local racetracks, venues, businesses and offer an onsite alternative entertainment option. These will be a tremendous bonus to the local Car & Coffee Scene and meetups and will help promote the sim racing community within the greater Pittsburgh area.
Software
The current state of simulation software and hardware offer an incredible experience, but the initial hurdle of key binding and appropriately setting up the controllers efficiently is a major deterrent to use. Our first piece of software development is an ambitious project to use AI to automatically detect, keybind, and then pushing labels to automatically generated images for the HOTAS, button boxes, wheels, etc that the community uses.