Cory Dickes
Founder — ClarityForge
Everything above is mine. I designed it, I built it, and I'm the one whose phone goes off when a pipeline fails at three in the morning. How this gets done →
ClarityForge finds what's actually wrong — in a data feed, an integration, a report, or the numbers themselves — and fixes it. Sometimes that's a fixed-fee audit and a build. Sometimes it's staying on as the fractional CTO, CIO, or COO a business doesn't have on staff.
| Stock | Website feed | Physical audit | Reconciled |
|---|---|---|---|
| STK-40118 | listed | on lot | matched |
| STK-40126 | listed | on lot | matched |
| STK-40133 | listed | not found | ghost listing |
| STK-40147 | listed | on lot | matched |
| STK-40152 | listed | not found | ghost listing |
Illustrative output. Across 817 dealer inventories opened unit by unit, about one in eleven has a number in that third column. It's one shape of the same problem — the next two examples below aren't about inventory at all.
The reconciliation above is one example. Real, anonymized by industry, both from the last few months — the same kind of problem keeps showing up in places that have nothing to do with inventory.
Inherited a stalled build. A dependency pin was silently breaking every production deploy — the live backend was still running code from eight months earlier, and every fix shipped since had simply never gone out.
A core database migration the incumbent software vendor could only quote as a project of its own. Coordinated with that vendor directly and cut over after hours, so the plant floor never lost its system mid-shift.
Most businesses don't have a single problem. They have a system, a process, or a number that's been wrong long enough that nobody questions it anymore. Finding it and fixing it is the work — sometimes as a project, sometimes as a standing seat at the table.
For a handful of businesses, the audit didn't end in a handoff — it turned into a standing seat. Not a consultant taking calls; actual ownership of the roadmap, the stack, the vendors, and the fires, at a fraction of what a full-time executive hire costs.
Most businesses don't have one data problem — they have a feed, a DMS, and a floor that all disagree, or a number that's been wrong long enough that nobody questions it. A fixed-fee audit gets the real answer before anyone commits to building anything.
Vendor catalogs, distributor feeds, marketplace APIs, internal tools, and the platform with no export button. We connect them — and handle the part most people skip, which is what happens when the far end changes shape without telling you.
Not brochure sites. The ones where the design has to carry the business and the content has to be true — a storefront or catalog that stays current because the same pipeline feeding your reports also feeds the page, rather than because somebody remembered to log in.
The fastest way to judge whether someone can do this work is to look at what they run when nobody is paying them to. These are ours — live, public, and collecting right now.
A retail price engine that watches clearance, destock, and price movement continuously, then surfaces what's genuinely underpriced rather than merely discounted.
Last-minute rental inventory that would otherwise expire worthless, scored against market rates across dozens of drive-markets and hubs.
Wait times at every North Carolina DMV office, collected on a schedule and kept — building the only longitudinal record of it that exists.
Small, fixed fee, short timeline. We go get your data and tell you what's actually in it. You keep the findings whether or not we do anything else — and often the audit is the whole engagement.
Scoped from real findings rather than a discovery call. Fixed fee where the shape is known, hourly where it genuinely isn't. You'll know which before we start.
Pipelines rot when the far end changes. We'll maintain it on a retainer, or hand it over documented and walk away. No lock-in, and no pretending that's a hard choice.
Sometimes the audit doesn't end in a handoff or a walk-away. For the businesses where it made sense, it turned into an ongoing fractional role — CTO, CIO, or COO scope, billed monthly, for as long as it's earning its keep.
Everything above is mine. I designed it, I built it, and I'm the one whose phone goes off when a pipeline fails at three in the morning. How this gets done →
Tell us what you're trying to see and what's currently in the way. If it isn't something we can help with, we'll say so in the first reply rather than the third meeting.
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