Dwg CF-001 General arrangement Memphis, TN
When the software has to be right.
Clear Function is a Memphis software partner that combines strategic advisory with hands-on engineering. We build custom software, put AI to work inside real operations, and modernize the systems a business can’t afford to switch off.
Our specialties are where we’re deepest, not the edge of what we do. Every line item below ends in software your team owns and can keep building on.
Long-lived systems for teams that plan to keep building. The code is yours: that’s our default, not a negotiation.
AI placed inside a real workflow, with people reviewing the decisions that matter. When a rule or a report does the job better, we’ll tell you.
Legacy estates rebuilt while the operation keeps running on them. We have done it across 50+ interconnected applications for a live logistics operation.
For when nobody in the building owns the decision about what runs when, and it’s costing margin. We replace the spreadsheet, the whiteboard, or the one person’s head with real software.
Someone to weigh the trade-off with you before anyone writes code, and to own the result after it ships.
Some clients have an IT department and more roadmap than people. Some have no technologist in the building at all. Either way, a cheaper wrong answer costs more than getting it right.
You already have engineers and a committed plan you can’t staff fast enough. You need capacity that raises the bar instead of lowering it: people you don’t have to babysit or redo.
“They have the capability to ramp up resources without losing that quality. … The quality never suffers.”
You know what the operation needs and what it costs when software gets it wrong. We turn the technical decisions into consequences you can weigh, then build the thing you decided on.
“Clear Function blows software developer stereotypes out of the water.”
We’d rather show you how far along something is than round it up. Every engagement below carries its real status.
More than fifty interconnected applications, spanning Classic ASP, ASP.NET v2 webforms and ASP.NET MVC/Angular hybrids, all carrying a live logistics operation. The hard part wasn’t any one app. It was changing them without stopping the work that ran on top.
Three industries with no supply chain, regulator or software category in common. Each time, what we replaced wasn’t another vendor’s product: it was a spreadsheet, a desktop database, or the one person who understood the schedule.
“We engaged Clear Function to rescue a stalled ERP development project, and they delivered beyond expectations. They were thorough and methodical during discovery and scoping, then tackled the toughest technical work head on, including data migration and mapping from our 15 year old legacy system.”
Seth Agranov · MERI
Our proven process has six stages. Most of the judgment happens in the first two, so the last four don’t hold surprises.
Ask the questions that make the project well defined, including the uncomfortable ones.
Choose the trade-offs before they are expensive, and write down why.
Working software you can see and react to, early and often.
Prove it against the cases that would hurt if they broke.
Cut over with a plan for the morning after, not just the launch.
Keep building on a system you own.
Moving freight employs more people in Memphis than any other sector, and the people who run it know each other. We’re close enough to come to your office.
We work well together and with our clients. We always assume positive intent and we value feedback because we believe that we are better as a team than as individuals.
We own the results of our work. We don’t focus on blaming; we focus on improving.
We’re always learning, growing and improving. We constantly evolve our processes, skills, and ourselves to produce better experiences and results for our clients.
We constantly put ourselves in our clients and teammates shoes. We speak to them how they would like to be addressed, and we have hard conversations because results matter.
Chaos to clarity. Possibilities to reality. Partnership to impact.
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Bring the system, the roadmap, or the spreadsheet. If you’ve already tried the cheaper route, we’d like to hear what it cost. That’s usually where the real requirements are.
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