Built by the Client
Who Got Burned.
ClearGround exists because its founder spent 20 years as a real estate investor watching contractors dispute yardage, skip documentation, and deliver excuses instead of data. So he built the company that couldn't.
"He fell in love with the rare GP or contractor who humbly did great work for a fair price. Those people were rare. And they were always fully booked."
Cody — Founder
The Contractor
He Always Wished Existed.
Over 20 years running a digital media agency, Cody invested his profits into real estate — first as a limited partner in multifamily and self-storage syndications, then as a principal doing his own value-add and development projects. He learned the construction industry from the client side of the table.
What he found was a pattern. General partners who overpromised on returns. Contractors who overbid, underbid, said whatever it took to get the deal, and then delivered disputes instead of data. Yardage that couldn't be verified. Grading that failed drainage review. Budgets that exploded because nobody documented the starting point.
He also found the rare exception: the GP, the developer, the contractor who did great work for a fair price — and who could prove it. Those people were rare. And they were always fully booked.
So when he found an exceptional equipment operator with 15 years of craft experience, assembled the right iron and the right tech stack, and bought clearground.com — he wasn't starting a construction company. He was building the contractor he'd always wished existed.
ClearGround is the product of that frustration and that aspiration. Every operational decision — from RTK drone scans before the first bucket hits dirt, to 3D Digital Twins delivered every Friday, to the refusal to haul material off-site when it can be milled and reused — traces directly back to the specific failures Cody experienced as a client paying real money for substandard work.
Four Values.
Zero Exceptions.
These aren't aspirations. They're operational commitments written into every scope of work, every scan, and every invoice we send.
Precision
We don't guess. We scan and prove. Every cubic yard billed is a cubic yard documented with RTK-verified drone data before and after. Disputes become impossible because the record is irrefutable.
Transparency
Every active project gets a 3D Digital Twin delivered every Friday. You see what we see. No surprises on billing day because you've been watching the work happen in real time.
Site Philosophy
Nothing leaves the site that doesn't have to. Vegetation is mulched in place. Rock is milled on-site and repurposed as aggregate, road base, and drainage fill. What most contractors haul away, we turn into a line item that saves you money.
SITE WORK
Not every job should shake the neighborhood. Clear Ground brings surgical precision to all three disciplines — selective demo that protects adjacent foundations, excavation cut to exact grade with RTK verification, and land clearing that removes what needs to go while preserving what doesn’t. Operating businesses stay open. Legacy trees stay standing.
The Right Iron.
The Right Tech.
Purpose-built for Hill Country geology and tight urban lots. Every machine earns its spot on the trailer.
Two Markets.
One Standard.
Same technology, same documentation standards, same commitment to verified data — adapted to the geology and regulatory environment of each region.
Limestone geology, Heritage Tree Ordinance, explosive infill growth under the HOME initiative, and a pool construction market that runs year-round. Austin is where ClearGround was born and where its first 50 projects will build the documented portfolio that unlocks everything else.
Different geology, same documentation gap. The SLC market expansion brings ClearGround's verified methodology to a region experiencing rapid residential and commercial growth along the Wasatch Front corridor.
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