{"id":196,"slug":"reladyne-industries-pattern-19-verticals","title":"RelaDyne: /products-solutions/<industry>/ namespace, ~19 verticals, multi-axis IA (\"By Industry / Product / Brand / Service\")","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["kevin","claude-code","candid-team"],"topics":["information-architecture"],"reference_body":"**Claim:** **RelaDyne** (US parent distributor of Petro-Canada products) exposes industries under `/products-solutions/<industry>/` — e.g., `/products-solutions/agriculture/`, `/construction/`, `/fleet-fleets-transport/` — with **~19 vertical pages** plus a \"By Industry\" hub. Multi-axis IA: \"By Industry,\" \"By Product,\" \"By Brand,\" \"By Service\" all surface as parallel mental models.\n\n**Source:** <https://reladyne.com/products-solutions/by-industry/> (field research, May 2026).\n\n**Confidence:** Verified (direct field observation).\n\n**Does well:** Multiple entry mental models acknowledge different buyer search behaviors.\n\n**Does poorly:** URL slug `industrial-2` exposed in production — visibly a slug collision in the CMS, unconsolidated. The kind of artifact that signals the IA grew organically rather than from a content model.\n\n**Use as comparator for Boucher & Jones planning** — RelaDyne is the closest large-scale US analog. See [[eh-wolf-petro-canada-distributor-ia-pattern]] for the closer-scale regional analog.","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[],"incoming":[{"slug":"eh-wolf-petro-canada-distributor-ia-pattern","title":"E.H. Wolf & Sons: closest direct B&J analog — \"Industries We Serve\" + 16 flat-root vertical pages","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"bj-distributor-ia-recommendation","title":"Boucher & Jones IA recommendation: Pattern A + hub-and-spoke, NOT enterprise matrix","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"},{"slug":"research-brief-ia-multi-vertical-service-business","title":"Research brief: Information architecture for service businesses with multiple verticals (piece 6 of 15)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}]},"created_at":"2026-05-22T19:40:49.094Z","updated_at":"2026-05-22T19:40:49.094Z"}