Clear Function

09/24/2026

Do you know what questions to ask when vetting a new software development partner? Do you know how to interpret the answers you receive?

If not, or if you're looking for ideas to update your standard intro questions, our latest blog post can help.

Read it now for 7 questions we suggest every company ask a new potential dev partner; before you sign anything.

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The questions that separate a partner who will tell you the truth from one who will build whatever you ask for, written for mid-market leaders without a procurement function.

09/07/2026

We're officially OOO today for Labor Day. We'll see you all tomorrow!

06/06/2026

Say hello to Laila Sadlow, our newest Software Development Intern! 👋

Laila is a computer science major at Purdue University (rising junior) who joined the Clear Function crew after connecting with our senior engineer Brian Lankford. She's spending her internship growing her full-stack development skills and working with frameworks like .NET on real projects.

A fun fact to get to know her by: when she's not coding, you'll probably find her photographing the squirrels around Purdue's campus. 🐿️📸

Welcome to the team, Laila. We're happy to have you!

05/12/2026

Manual freight dispatch from an inbound email is approximately nine steps.

Most of them are copying, pasting, and verifying that the person who sent the email didn't mistype a zip code.

We built a demo that walks you through it, then shows the automated version. The interesting part isn't that automation is faster (everyone already knows that). It's where the errors hide in the manual version and how validation catches them at a different layer than parsing does.

Three minutes, no signup.Try the demo: https://logistics.clearfunction.com/

04/30/2026

"Somewhere in your operation, someone is reconciling a discrepancy between the WMS and the ERP right now."

That's how our newest post opens, and it isn't hyperbole. Most operations teams have either staffed for it or are about to.

The instinct when integrations break is to audit the middleware. Replace the connector. Evaluate a new iPaaS. That almost never solves the problem, because the problem usually isn't in the transport layer.

It's in the data contract. Two systems can both have an "Order" object and be modeling completely different things. The WMS updates in real time; the ERP runs nightly batches. Nobody has explicitly named the source of truth for the lot number, the cost layer, or the unit-of-measure conversion.

Until those questions get answered, new middleware just inherits the ambiguity.

Full post on what actually fixes it: https://clrfnc.us/3QGJF6q