All good things...
In 2013, an intrepid group gathered and began building a dream piece of software -- a 3D map based real estate software platform for commercial real estate research. Meeting daily to scrum and bi-weekly in person, we dreamed of a future where it was easy to research and investigate the potential for any property with all the data in one place. This dream became Create.io and by January 2015 we had our first freemium release.
For most of 2015, we explored freemium sales to independent real estate brokers and established ourselves in the market place. Ultimately, realizing that the number of commercial real estate brokers and agents might not be sufficient to fund our enterprise alone we began work on our premium release.
In March of 2016, the possibility of a large enterprise contract was brought to the team, and work began to prepare for scaling the application in earnest. By the end of the year, the product included data for DC, Baltimore, and New York City.

That fall, despite restructuring, multiple attempts failed to rescue the company. By December 2016, Create.io had closed its doors as a business. Despite this, thanks to credits from Amazon the website was usable to clients until mid 2018 -- with just one server reboot, once!
In early 2017, the engineering team relaunched Clevermap Consulting and took on multiple projects to help all of the engineering staff transition to new work opportunities.
Clevermap served multiple clients building a variety of web and mobile based solutions based in React, php, React Native and node. Projects ranged from substance abuse apps to ed tech projects in a variety of domains including 7MinuteHebrew.com.
Despite never being thought of as a full time business, Clevermap has had a good run. All of our partners have found other roles and our clients have been transitioned to new contractors. Thus as 2020 ends, with everyone moved on, the partners have made the decision to let go of Clevermap Consulting.
With much gratitude to everyone on both of these intertwined journeys, Clevermap served its purpose, and as they say, all good things must eventually come to an end.
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