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ClearPath for cities & counties

ClearPath is the resident-facing layer that closes the loop between your published disposal rules and the residents who need them. Sourced citations on every verdict, contamination prevention before the bag goes out, demand signals before the complaint reaches your council mailbox.

What your civic-services line keeps hearing.

Not lack of effort — broken information rails. Residents ask the same five questions on a loop, your rules update without the public learning, and contamination empties the load anyway. ClearPath is the resident-facing layer that closes those loops, with sourced citations 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 verdicts residents can self-serve at 2 a.m. ClearPath answers the question before it becomes your call.

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: A daily URL-health worker probes every cited link. Stale-rule alerts fire after 180 days. Operator-publishers mark rules verified 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: Contamination-prevention layer routes hazards before the resident commits. Operators see hotspot patterns by ZIP — 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 composes Federal → State → County → City 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 surfaces coverage gaps, contamination clusters, illegal-dumping risk, and a 12-month rule-gap seasonal chart — before complaints reach the mailbox.

Evidence: Illegal-dumping early-warning · demand signals

Pilot cities stand up their first verified program in under a week. Municipal publishers verify rules without engineering involvement.

What your team gets

Pilot cities stand up their first verified program in under a week. Municipal publishers can verify rules without engineering involvement.

  • Civic data, maintained

    Your rules are sourced, dated, and kept fresh — a daily URL-health worker probes every cited link, and stale-rule alerts fire when something hasn’t been re-verified in 180 days.

  • Invite-a-city publisher flow

    Provision a municipal publisher into the platform with one form. They verify their own rules in a queue; your county operator does a second-pass review before residents see the change.

  • Demand signals you can act on

    Coverage-gap signals, contamination hotspots, illegal-dumping risk, and a 12-month rule-gap seasonal chart — surfaced 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

Honest boundaries before you agree to anything. We'd rather you decline 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 60-90 days are about whether ClearPath works for your county and your residents.

At formal contract: typical range is $10K-$50K annually depending on county population + feature scope (resident-facing only vs. full operator dashboard + demand signals). No surprises, no per-call fees, no charges for adding rules.

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

See what your county would actually get

Live demo, no slide deck. We share 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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