The blog. And the team behind it.
Long-form essays from the engineers, founders, and product owners at Clearview Team — case studies from real client work, service explainers that skip the sales voice, and the origin story of a company that has been remote since day one.
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- Writing since
- 2020
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Cleveland suburbs, then a beach.
Brett started this company at eighteen, in the Cleveland suburbs. Nothing formal, nothing named — just work, from a bedroom, for whoever would pay.
Years later, working from a beach in Playa del Carmen, he realised something quieter than a business plan: the work did not need an office. It did not need local clients. It did not need a city with his name on it.
He formalised the LLC in 2017. Clearview has been remote-first ever since.
Today Clearview Team builds web and mobile applications for startups and scaling companies, with engineering teams in the US, Bosnia, Indonesia, and South Africa — four countries, one Slack workspace, and enough overlap in hours that nothing has to wait for morning.
We started writing here because the things we kept telling our clients — how to keep a small team fast as it grows, what to cut before you build, the boring decisions that compound — did not fit in a quarterly review and were not going to land on a sales page. So we put them here, where they can sit and be read.
Four kinds of essays. Each labels itself.
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Case studies from real engagements.
Anonymised, but with the actual stack, the actual finding, the actual diff. Rate-limit bypasses behind CloudFront, CORS misconfigurations on Express, Cognito + S3 migrations that drop the file-upload bill.
Read the Client Engineering Stories series -
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Service explainers.
How an engagement runs — what you get, what you don't, how we price, why retros stay on the schedule even when sprint velocity is fine.
Start with How to Be Cheap, Fast and Good -
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Founder narratives.
Brett's origin pieces and the longer-form team essays about how this company came to be remote-first.
Start with Fully Remote Since Forever -
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Reflective essays.
First-person pieces on attention, balance, distance running, the small choices that compound. Not pitches.
Start with The Pause
Four rules. That is the list.
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Specific over abstract.
Names of cities, dates, libraries, decisions. Playa del Carmen, 2017 — not a picturesque location. Make the reader picture it.
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One sentence as a paragraph is fine.
White space carries the rhythm. Two sentences in a row, sometimes. Always.
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No press-release voice.
No corporate plural. No founder-as-guru. If we would not say it across the table, we do not publish it.
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Em-dashes and italics carry emphasis.
Not exclamation marks. Italicize a word when stress is doing real work, not for decoration.
Founder Vision — Brett interviews founders and operators on the messy middle of building a company. Same team, different room. foundervision.clearview.team
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