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About Clearstream

We're a product-first team building powerful, elegant communication software for the local church. We're a hybrid team with half of us remote, and half based at our headquarters in Pensacola, Florida.


Work at Clearstream

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Meet the Clearstream team

Our team is dedicated to the quality of our product and the happiness of the churches that rely on us.

Aaron

Aaron

Director of Engineering

Braden

Braden

Marketing

Caitlin

Caitlin

Customer Success

Carly

Carly

Customer Success

Emily

Emily

Customer Success Manager

Illia

Illia

Senior Engineer

Jimmy

Jimmy

Director of Operations

Jordan

Jordan

Customer Success

Lizzie

Lizzie

Customer Success

Michael

Michael

COO / Co-founder

Paul

Paul

Senior Engineer

Stephen

Stephen

Customer Success

Tim

Tim

Engineer

Trevor

Trevor

CTO / Co-founder

Clearstream by the numbers

14

Amazing, talented people work at Clearstream.

14

We started building Clearstream 14 years ago, back in 2010.

6,000

Over 6,000 churches and non-profits use Clearstream.

$0

We've raised $0 in capital, have $0 debt, and are founder-owned.

Founder's story

We take what we do seriously — building powerful, beautiful software for the church.

Hey, we're Michael Lepinay and Trevor Gehman, the founders of Clearstream. Here's a short version of our story...

Back in 2009, Trevor and I met for the first time and immediately clicked. We were both running our own small one-man businesses at that time, but quickly realized we wanted to build something together, but weren't sure what that something was. In those early years, we did a number of things – website design, live streaming for churches (hence the name Clearstream), marketing services for businesses – anything to get revenue in the door.

A couple years in, we got into texting. We quickly saw that the options for businesses and organizations wanting to use texting were less than ideal. Terrible is probably the right word. Everything was ugly, slow, and bloated with unnecessary features. So we started building the antithesis of that – something well-designed, fast, and intuitive. We released the first version in 2013.

By 2016, Clearstream was being used by a few hundred small businesses, and even a couple Fortune 500 companies. But we had no passion for what we were offering: a text message marketing platform. However, we had a few churches as customers. They were easy to work with, and loved using Clearstream (we didn't realize back then that it was a great 'product/market fit'). Beyond that, both of us grew up in the church, and strongly believe in the local church.

We found that providing our software to churches gave us a satisfaction in our work that wasn't there before (not that all work or jobs need to be completely satisfying). So, around 2016 we pivoted to only building software for churches and haven't looked back.

We've come a long way since 2010, but that drive to create something exceptional hasn't changed. We take what we do seriously — building powerful, beautiful software for the church.

Fun fact - Trevor married Michael's sister three years after the company was started. To this day they remain brothers-in-law, business partners, and mortal enemies.

Michael Trevor

Michael and Trevor

Co-founders, brothers-in-law, and mortal enemies

Our Company Culture

Be Humble

We take pride in what we do, but we play a small role in the larger story of the church.

Be Precise

Sweat the details and don't cut corners. Build things we're proud of.

Be Honest

Even when it hurts.

Be Balanced

In work and life. We offer 4-day work weeks for most of our team. Long weekends mean happier families at home and more creativity at work.

Be Silly

We take building software for the church seriously. But we're just a bunch of regular people who like to have fun.

Be Fundamental

Spend less money than we make (rare for software companies today); invest in what matters - our product and people; treat each other and our customers with empathy.

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