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ClearPath for cities & counties

We are the public-facing layer that connects your published disposal rules to the residents who actually need them. Every verdict cites a source. The contamination layer steers hazards away before the bag goes out. Demand signals reach you before the complaint reaches your council mailbox.

What your civic-services line keeps hearing.

It is not for lack of effort. The information rails between agencies and residents are broken. Residents ask the same five questions on a loop. Your rules update without the public learning. Contamination empties the load anyway. ClearPath is the public-facing layer that closes those gaps, with a source citation at every step.

Same questions, 500 times a week.

Most resident calls are the same five items — paint, batteries, mattress, electronics, yard waste. Staff repeats themselves. So do you on the council.

ClearPath: Per-item sourced answers residents can find on their own at 2 a.m. ClearPath answers the question before it becomes a call to your office.

Evidence: 444+ published rules across 6 jurisdictions

Our rules change. Residents don't get the update.

You update an HHW schedule or a yard-waste window. The PDF refreshes on the county site. Residents Google last year's blog post anyway.

ClearPath: Every cited link is checked automatically every day. If a rule's source has not been re-confirmed in six months, it's flagged for review. Your team can re-confirm a rule in one click.

Evidence: Rule-source URL health · stale-rule alerts

Contamination dumps the load.

One lithium battery in a curb cart torches the truck. One greasy pizza box in a recycling bin downgrades the whole bale.

ClearPath: Our contamination layer routes hazards away from the trash bag before the resident commits. Operators see hotspot patterns by ZIP, so you can communicate before the haul-out, not after.

Evidence: Contamination prevention · per-ZIP hotspot dashboard

Three agencies, one resident, one item.

Federal Universal Waste says one thing, your state PCA another, your county adds a third constraint, and a city has a fourth. Residents see four answers from four authorities.

ClearPath: A layered-authority engine combines Federal, State, County, and City rules into one verdict, and names every contributor with its source URL and last-verified date.

Evidence: Layered authority chain · live on /trust

Where's the unmet demand?

You learn about service gaps from complaints. Illegal dumping is reported after it costs the county $20k to remediate. Programs run a year before you realize a ZIP doesn't use them.

ClearPath: A demand-signal dashboard shows coverage gaps, contamination clusters, illegal-dumping risk, and a 12-month rule-gap chart. You see them before complaints reach the mailbox.

Evidence: Illegal-dumping early-warning · demand signals

Pilot cities have their first verified program running in 1–2 weeks. Your team can verify rules without any technical help.

What your team gets

Pilot cities have their first verified program running in 1–2 weeks, with about 2 hours per week from one staff member. Your team can verify rules without any technical help.

  • Civic data, maintained

    Your rules are sourced and dated. A daily worker checks every cited link, and we send alerts when a rule has not been re-verified in 180 days.

  • Invite a city to publish its own rules

    A city in your county fills out one form to join. Their staff can add and confirm city-specific rules in a review queue. Your county team does a second-pass review before anything reaches residents.

  • Demand signals you can act on

    Coverage gaps, contamination hotspots, illegal-dumping risk, and a 12-month rule-gap chart. You see them before complaints reach the council mailbox.

  • Bulk import + audit trail

    Stand up dozens of programs from a CSV with a dry-run preview. Conflict resolver lets you one-click deactivate stale duplicates. Every change is logged and reviewable.

What we ask of you

Plain boundaries before you agree to anything. We would rather you decline based on accurate expectations than sign up on a guess.

What we ask

  • • ~2 hours of one staffer's time per week during the first month
  • • A point-of-contact who can confirm 5-10 published rules per week
  • • Permission to cite your already-public rules with attribution
  • • Honest feedback when residents tell you something we got wrong

What we don't

  • • Email your residents (no resident-list export from your systems)
  • • Replace your social media, your county brand, or your resident relationships
  • • Require IT integration, data warehouse access, or ETL setup
  • • Lock you into multi-year contracts during pilot

What pilot costs

Free during pilot. No upfront cost, no implementation fee, no per-resident fee. The first 60 to 90 days are about whether ClearPath actually works for your county and your residents.

At formal contract: the typical range is $10K to $50K annually depending on county population and which features you turn on (resident-facing only, or the full operator dashboard with demand signals). There are no per-call fees, and no charges for adding rules.

We give counties the full pricing breakdown at the demo so your Environmental Services Manager has the numbers they need for budget approval. No "request pricing" dance.

See what your county would actually get

A live demo, not a slide deck. We walk through the operator dashboard, the rule-publishing flow, and the demand-signal dashboard. Then we discuss what a pilot might look like for your county. Free during pilot.

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