Business first
Start with the operating problem and economics. AI must earn its place in the solution.
About ClearPath Intake
Business judgment.
Technical execution.
One connected approach.
ClearPath Intake is led by Joe Neil Zelaya, its founder, in Silicon Valley. We help service businesses turn repetitive work and difficult handoffs into a practical plan and a working solution.
Discuss your workflow ↗Founder-led engagement
Meet Joe Neil Zelaya.
Founder of ClearPath Intake.
Your engagement defines deliverables, responsibilities and acceptance checks before work begins.
The engagement identifies who owns decisions, delivery, reviews, and ongoing operation. Where your team or specialist vendors participate, their responsibilities and dependencies are made explicit in the plan.
Decisions made visible
Document requirements, assumptions, tradeoffs, and review points so you can understand what you are buying.
Implementation discipline
Connect architecture with testing, adoption, documentation, ownership, and a realistic delivery sequence.
See the approach
Start with a familiar business workflow.
See how an opportunity assessment examines an onboarding process, identifies handoffs and compares the next steps before choosing a tool.
View the illustrative assessment →Private development example
Conversational AI
for a faith community.
A working conversational AI prototype developed in collaboration with a school and church.
The project reached an end-to-end working prototype. Public launch is on hold while the participating organizations consider whether to make the experience available more broadly.
Developer-reported status: private prototype; public launch pending. This example describes development work, not independently measured outcomes or a public deployment. The organizations and product remain unnamed.
How we work
Define the commitment
before making the investment.
Every proposal should make the deliverables, exclusions, fees, responsibilities, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and support expectations clear.
Data access, approved tools, human review, code and IP ownership, handoff documentation, and ongoing operating costs are discussed and recorded as appropriate to the engagement.
We distinguish estimates from measured results. Illustrative workflows show how we think; they are never presented as customer outcomes.
A practical starting point.
An AI Opportunity Assessment can clarify priorities before a larger commitment. A blueprint can define a complex initiative before implementation. A focused build can address a well-understood workflow. Fractional leadership can guide work delivered by your existing team.
What will we agree before work begins?
The business objective, scope, deliverables, responsibilities, dependencies, fees, review points, and acceptance checks. The scope also defines documentation, ownership, and any support arrangements.
Can ClearPath lead an initiative without building everything?
Yes. Fractional transformation, product, program, or technical program leadership can coordinate priorities and execution across your team and vendors.
Is the first call a commitment to a project?
No. It is a conversation about your priorities and whether there is a suitable next step. Any paid engagement is separately scoped and agreed.
Start with the business problem
Tell us what you want to improve.
You do not need a technical brief. Bring the workflow, the bottleneck, or the idea. We will discuss a practical next step.
Discuss your workflow ↗