About

We work for the people who work for the public.

ClearOS was founded in 2025 by a former state CIO, a recovering FCA counsel, and the engineer who built the document-processing pipeline at a top-five health insurer. We exist to make government back offices fast, fair, and honest.

Mission

Make every public-sector decision faster and better-justified.

Government has been under-resourced for two generations. Backlogs aren't a sign of laziness — they're a sign of arithmetic. We build the layer that closes the gap between citizen volume and civil-service capacity, without compromising due process.

We measure ourselves on three things: cases per week, override rate, and citizen satisfaction. We publish all three.

What we won't do

  • Sell military targeting systems
  • Ship without an audit trail
  • Train on customer data, ever
  • Replace caseworkers with no humans-in-the-loop
  • Take procurement shortcuts
Founders

The three of us.

Maya Okonkwo · CEO

Former CIO, State of Vermont. Led the digital-services team that shipped the first online UI claim in under 90 seconds.

Daniel Reyes · President & GC

Former DOJ Civil Frauds counsel; FCA practice partner. Tried 11 cases. Settled more.

Priya Nair · CTO

Built the claims-document AI pipeline at a top-5 U.S. health insurer. Open-source maintainer of govforms-ocr.

Values

Five we'll defend at the door.

01

Civil servants first

The job is hard. Tools should make it easier, not louder.

02

Audit by default

If we can't explain it, we shouldn't ship it.

03

Outcomes, not output

Cases cleared, errors prevented, dollars recovered. Not lines of code.

04

Boring infrastructure

Public systems should be predictable. Even when they're new.

05

Don't kid the customer

If a workflow is the wrong fit, we say so.

06

Build the bench

Recruit, train, and promote from inside the civil service.

Investors & advisors

People who know government work.

Lead investor

A multi-stage fund with a public-sector practice. (Naming permitted post-Series A.)

Strategic LPs

Two operators-turned-investors who built and sold prior generations of GovTech.

Advisors

Former state CIOs, federal IGs, FCA counsel, and a procurement reform attorney.

Timeline

How we got here.

2025 · Founded

Three founders, one shared frustration. Pre-seed closed in May.

2025 Q3 · First pilot

State of Vermont, social-services intake.

2025 Q4 · Seed

$14M seed led by a fund with public-sector pedigree.

2026 Q1 · StateRAMP

StateRAMP Moderate authorization granted.

2026 Q2 · Federal pilot

First federal IG goes live.

2026 Q3 · Series A

Capital to harden FedRAMP and grow into 10 states.

Where we work

Two cities, deliberately.

Washington, D.C.

Federal practice, policy, and counsel. Ten minutes from the agencies we serve.

Austin, TX

Engineering and design. Close to the state-government innovation surface.

Press

Selected coverage.

FedScoop

"ClearOS lands first state contract for AI adjudication."

StateScoop

"Inside Vermont's 9-week disability backlog clearance."

Government Technology

"What an AI-native back office actually looks like."

Route Fifty

"Counties pilot AI plan-checking at scale."

Bloomberg Law

"FCA firms turn to AI for document review."

The Verge

"The startups bringing AI to the DMV."

Public commitments

Things we put in writing.

No dark-pattern citizen UX

Citizen-facing surfaces will not employ deceptive design — even when an agency requests it.

Annual fairness report

Public report on outcome distribution by protected class, per workflow.

No data exfil

Customer data does not leave the customer's tenant.

Civil-service hiring pipeline

20% of customer-facing hires recruited from the civil service.

Come work with us.

Engineering, government affairs, deployment, design — all hiring.

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