Point-of-sale, network, website
A restaurant in Melbourne's inner west had its point-of-sale die on it. We replaced the POS, rebuilt the network, and put up a new website, brand and words included, in a single day.
What we do
Either the technology is doing what you need, or you're working around it. We sit down with you, work out what needs to happen, and build what gets it there.
A small shop with the right people and the right tools can take a job from the first conversation to a live product without handing it to anyone: the brand, the words, the design, the code, the integrations, the hosting. Same people on the call the whole way.
The research in the name is real. We run experiments constantly, on our own time and our own kit, so by the time something reaches a client we know how it behaves. It also means we change course quickly when the first idea doesn't hold up. Small jobs ship in days. Big ones ship in pieces you can use along the way.
We were doing this long before AI turned up. AI is extremely handy and we use it all day, but knowing what to build, and what to leave out, is still a people thing.
Things we've built
Twenty years of this, mostly with organisations that are very good at what they do: research institutes and labs, people pushing the limits of their field, unions pushing education, some of the biggest builders and manufacturers in the country. We're used to rooms full of smart people with strong opinions. No two of these were the same job. That's the point.
ERP integration
A global environmental services company had a multi-system ERP integration processing about $100 million a year, and it wasn't working. Several systems, none of them built to talk to each other. We fixed it.
Cloud migration, website
A network installation business ran everything through virtual desktops, so its crews couldn't get at site documents when they were actually on site. We moved them to Microsoft 365 with files synced to their devices, put the accounting package in the cloud, and redid the website. Recurring IT costs dropped by 80 percent.
Decision-making portal
A union had a political problem: hundreds of elected councillors, spread across the state, who had to debate and decide things together. We built a secure, web-facing portal that let them do it.
Product build and go-to-market
A consultancy had an internal toolkit its staff used on every job. We turned it into a product, built it out, and took it to market. It now does significant recurring revenue and has won a stack of industry awards.
Social network
A manufacturer had grown by acquisition into about 7,000 staff across what used to be separate companies. We built and rolled out an internal social network so knowledge could move between them.
Licensing automation
A large business was paying for Microsoft licences it wasn't using. We analysed and automated their licensing, and made changes that save about $1 million a year.
Due diligence and handover
A manufacturer was being bought by a regulated overseas company. We got the technology, the marketing assets, and the operations ready for due diligence and the handover. The deal closed and nothing broke.
Research wiki, client portals
A property and planning consultancy with a lot of research inside it. We built the research wiki, so the knowledge that lived in individual heads and old PDFs is findable by the next person who needs it. Then we built client portals, so the research could be sold to the people it was written for.
Who we are
Clear Path Research is run by Ali Robertson, who has spent 20-odd years building things in the Microsoft stack and on the web. It's a small shop. The designers and engineers we bring in are people we've worked with for years, and the team grows with the work.
Our clients pay us and nobody else does. No platform partnerships, no kickbacks, no resale margins.
Get in touch
Something your organisation needs to do, and the technology isn't doing it? Tell us about it.
Email ali@clearpath.cloud