Empowering Software Delivery

AI is accelerating development. Can your governance keep up?

Octopus Deploy is the CD platform built for enterprise scale. When change acelerates, knowing who deployed what, where and when isn’t optional.

Clear Measure is the official North American implemnetation parter for Octopus Deploy, empowering software teams to deliver value at the speed of business.

You already have a CI/CD tool.
Why do you need Octopus?

CI is not CD.

Most all-in-one CI/CD tools aren't designed to handle the complexities of CD at scale. Octopus is, and it makes it simple.

Octopus Deploy

Why Octopus Deploy?

More than 4,000 organizations and 350,000 users worldwide use Octopus Deploy’s deployment automation solution to simplify complex deployments. From modern containers and microservices to trusted legacy applications, Octopus Deploy orchestrates software delivery in data centers, multi-cloud, and hybrid IT infrastructure.

We’re proud to be Octopus Deploy’s North American partner for Microsoft platform-related services. Our seasoned software development teams help customers establish quality, achieve stability, and increase deployment speed as they implement Octopus Deploy’s deployment automation solutions.

Exclusive Partner for Octopus Deploy Customers

Clear Measure offers various Octopus Deploy implementation and training services to meet even the most complex projects. From setup and migration planning to implementation, training, and other custom software deployment services, we enhance your operational efficiency and performance.

Jumpstart

Our Octopus Deploy Jumpstart service provides a comprehensive foundation for optimal deployment configuration, starting with a curated Visual Studio application skeleton and SQL Server database. We implement our tested Clear Measure Way best practices across seven critical areas, ensuring a robust DevOps pipeline from source control to production deployment.

The service also integrates advanced features like runtime observability, automated health checks, and production maintenance runbooks, alongside team cross-training, to empower your organization with cutting-edge deployment capabilities.

Migration

Our Octopus Deploy Cloud Migration Planning service transforms a complex task into a strategic, confidence-boosting process by comprehensively analyzing your existing infrastructure and deployed software.

We deliver a tailored migration plan that outlines a clear sequence of steps, prioritizing cutting-edge DevOps capabilities to optimize your deployment pipeline. We empower your team to execute a seamless migration while focusing on core business objectives by meticulously mapping out the process and proactively addressing potential risks.

Inspection

Clear Measure's Octopus Deploy 30-Point Inspection elevates team productivity and quality by enabling streamlined, hands-off automated deployments. Our comprehensive review covers seven critical categories of your DevOps environment, ensuring optimal performance and reliability of your Octopus Deploy-based infrastructure.

Through a structured process, including an introductory call, a detailed engineer review, and an in-depth report, our Octopus Deploy inspection services give you actionable insights and recommendations to maximize your DevOps efficiency and effectiveness.

Orientation

Our two-hour Octopus Deploy Orientation provides a comprehensive introduction to seamlessly integrating this powerful deployment automation tool into your DevOps platform.

Led by Clear Measure, the North American consultant partner for Octopus Deploy, this session covers essential topics, including proper setup, build server integration, code release strategies, and best practices for modern cloud environments. We ensure your team starts on the right foot, maximizing the value of your Octopus Deploy investment from day one.

Platform Engineering

Our Octopus Deploy Platform Engineer Planning service equips your team with the expertise to leverage Octopus Deploy Enterprise's full potential from day one, addressing complex deployment scenarios with enterprise-grade power and support. Through a comprehensive 7-hour training session led by a Clear Measure architect, we cover crucial aspects of integrating Octopus Deploy into your DevOps ecosystem, including build server integration, code release strategies, and best practices for modern cloud environments.

As Octopus Deploy's North American consulting partner, we ensure your team has a tailored plan for configuring Octopus Deploy and a process architecture for deploying and operating one of your actual applications, helping you prevent missteps and maximize the value of your investment.

Pro Training

Our customizable Octopus Deploy Pro-Level Training empowers your enterprise team with in-depth knowledge across a broad range of topics, from basic application deployment to advanced features like runbooks and API scripting.

This tailored training covers crucial aspects such as environment management, target deployments, resource sharing, and advanced variable handling, ensuring your team can fully leverage Octopus Deploy's powerful capabilities. After a personalized consultation, we create a targeted training plan and schedule sessions to equip your team with the skills to establish quality, achieve stability, and increase deployment speed using Octopus Deploy.

AI-Driven Development

The Next Evolution in Software Delivery

Clear Measure ensures AI improves how you deliver software, not just how you write it. AI-assisted coding tools accelerate individual engineers. AI-driven development automates the entire system. That is the difference we deliver.

We work with software teams to embed AI safely across the full lifecycle, from requirements and design through testing, deployment, and production monitoring, without sacrificing quality or control.

Teams that implement our approach go from 26-week projects to 6. Labor costs drop by 77%. Defect prevention reaches 99%. 100% ROI within 21 weeks of go-live.

Clear Measure — We Build, We Fix, We Empower

We Build. We Fix. We Empower.

We Build

We design and build mission-critical software systems and embed AI directly into them.

  • Custom software systems for new strategic capabilities
  • AI built directly into those systems
  • DevOps and AI DevOps automation
  • Cloud migrations and modernization
  • AI Software Factories
  • High-scale load testing

We Fix

We step in when delivery has stalled or outcomes are unclear.

  • Help underperforming projects get back on track
  • Ramp up software capability quickly
  • Implement scorecards to identify where projects are off track
  • Measure real progress back to stability and performance
  • Achieve outcomes faster when delivery has stalled

We Empower

We work alongside leaders and delivery teams, transferring capability so organizations can succeed long after our engagement ends.

  • Guide and advise organizations to achieve big things with software
  • Transfer capability to your team
  • Support that continues long after our engagement is complete
The Five Pillars—Leadership for Effective Custom Software

THE FIVE PILLARSLeadership for Effective Custom Software

Jeffrey Palermo, CTO & Chairman of Clear Measure, is a renowned podcast host and trusted software architecture expert with over 20 years of consulting experience. In his latest book, he helps CEOs, CTOs, and business leaders tackle the complexities of software implementation.  Gain a comprehensive understanding of key principles and actionable strategies essential for successful custom software projects. 

Clear Measure — Strategy Not Just Technology

Strategy. Not Just Technology.

If your problem is merely technical, you can write a check and solve it. Clients rely on Clear Measure for strategic outcomes.

A Players

Our architects and engineers understand business and strategy. They align technical solutions to the outcomes that matter most. We operate more like special forces than a standing army.

Methodology

Our Five Pillars methodology covers creating clarity, establishing quality, achieving stability, increasing speed, and optimizing the team. It drives real results and works especially well for AI transformations.

Value

While we may not be the lowest-cost option, we consistently deliver outsized value for the outcomes we achieve.

A Trusted, Proven Approach

Our Clear Measure Way approach to custom IT software development solves common DevOps challenges and successfully delivers solutions that drive business growth. Our proven process, now supplemented by AI-driven practices, eliminates questions and guesswork, giving clients confidence in meeting the goals of their software development project. 

Does your project meet these best practices? Take our assessment to see how it measures up. 

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the Team

Clear Measure is the trusted solution when your project simply cannot fail.

Your Partner for Success with Custom Software

We Turn Around Failing Software Projects

Have You Ever Found Yourself in the Middle of:

No matter where you are in the project timeline, our team can help you get – and stay – on track so you can move forward with confidence.

Achieve Mission-Critical Software Success

We empower you to create clarity, establish quality, achieve stability, and increase speed as you lead your team to successful project completion. Whether you need assistance delivering custom software projects, improving or turning around failing initiatives, or guidance to keep mission-critical projects on track to help you deliver faster with confidence.

Successful Software Delivery

Successful projects are not just on time and on budget – they also meet business objectives. Using our proven methodology, powered by our AI-driven approach, we staff and manage projects from concept to launch, delivering the ongoing live-site operations

Turn Around a Failing Project

Take the hassle of staffing off your plate. You can rely on our architect-led engineering and DevOps talent. We rescue failed software projects to get them across the finish line. Our team excels in building, rescuing, and deploying custom software, whatever stage you’re in.

Keep Projects on Track

Stop problems before they start. Or better yet, get it right the first time! Let us consult and advise to ensure your custom software project succeeds. Our approach gives you visibility and deliverability, enhanced by AI-driven practices, making sure your project stays on track and meets your goals.

Confidently Build and Scale Mission-Critical Software

We partner with you at every stage of development and deployment through operations and maintenance. With AI-Driven Development integrated into our proven practices, we help teams build reliable, maintainable systems ready for the future.

Custom Software Development

  • Custom Enterprise Software Development
  • Fractional CTO 
  • Fractional Software Architect
  • Software Inspections
  • DevOps Inspections

IT Project Support

  • Project Rescue
  • Project Jump-Start
  • Legacy System Upgrades
  • Platform Migrations
  • Implementation & Training

Cloud Consulting Services

  • Azure Cloud Migrations
  • Azure Cloud Upgrades

Partner Services

  • Grok Build/Cursor implementation
  • Claude Code implementation
  • IBM Bob implementation
  • GitHub Copilot
  • Octopus Deploy Implementation
  • Redgate Implementation
  • TeamCity Implementation

Clear Measure — We Stand Behind Every Engagement

We Stand Behind Every Engagement

Organizations come to Clear Measure when they absolutely need to achieve strategic software outcomes.

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We don't consider a project successful until our clients do.

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Reduction in labor costs
99%
Defect prevention rate
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Weeks to delivery
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Time to full ROI

What Clients are Saying

Explore the stories of businesses like yours who have achieved their goals with Clear Measure.

    It was taking our team five days to do a proper manual deployment. Now, we have more efficiency and accuracy. By increasing the utilization of Octopus Deploy's automation features from 10% to 80%, we have increased productivity by over 84%. It’s a completely different deployment experience.

    FinTech Company

    SVP of Operations

      Since launching the site four years ago, our company has gone from a startup with no revenue to closing more than one billion dollars in loans. Clear Measure has been a great partner since day one. They have worked diligently with our entire organization to ensure our success. The system they have built for us is a critical component of our business platform. Our ongoing relationship is a key pillar to delivering critical business services as we grow.

      Best Egg

      Brian Conneen

        The deployment time was reduced by 96% from 300 to 11 minutes per deployment. Clear Measure's dev environment allowed us to deploy without risking our live environment.

        Pinpoint

          One completely unexpected benefit was the cost savings! We assumed costs dramatically increase. It was a thrill to see our costs actually go down from moving to Azure. This savings has added to our bottom line and actually passed onto our customers. I’ve been extremely impressed by the professionalism and formality of Clear Measure throughout the project.

          ShoWorks (Gladstone)

          Mike Hnatt

            By optimizing how our software is being delivered, we’ve actually been able to save over $12 million in fleet management costs! Working with a team who knew exactly how to build our solution was critical and has allowed us to make these incredible savings.

            Hardy Food Delivery

              Clear Measure’s expertise in architecture allowed us to streamline the timing of deployments and minimize errors. This improved efficiency ultimately decreased our average costs of implementing new features by over 75%, while also creating a software solution that is meeting our needs the way we need it to.

              Enterprise Insurance Company

                After experiencing a major issue with our data center, we had to scramble to get things put back together the way they were before. Clear Measure spent time with us and learned our needs as a department. As a result of our engagement with Clear Measure, we’ve saved hours each week of developer time and able to deploy several times a day to multiple environments. They not only provided the service we asked of them, but did so in a way that left us feeling satisfied. They are down to earth and brought a sense of humor, while providing professional services.

                Money Management International

                Mike Luka

                Has Clear Measure had an impact on you too?

                Architect-Led Engineering Teams

                Project leadership matters. That’s why we focus so heavily on expert staffing at Clear Measure. Like a well-built sports team, we assemble the right mix of architects and engineers to solve your custom software development, upgrade, migration, implementation, and DevOps challenges.

                Clear Measure architect-led engineering team

                We know what roles to fill when delivering a successful project and remain flexible to meet your changing needs. From filling talent gaps to complete outsourcing, we provide well-trained, tenured architects and engineers: A Players focused on project success.

                Deep Experience with Your Tech Stack

                Clear Measure’s architects and engineers bring deep experience across the technologies that power mission-critical systems. As a Microsoft Gold Partner that has delivered 1,000+ projects in just over a decade, we put that expertise to work to maximize your time, energy, and budget.

                .NET
                Azure
                Azure DevOps
                Blazor
                Kubernetes
                Octopus Deploy
                Redgate
                NService Bus
                AI
                Resharper
                SQL Server
                TeamCity

                We Know What Works

                We focus on results that solve our clients’ problems. We know what works, and we love putting that expertise and experience to use for our clients. Our reputation stands on its own as we’re trusted by over 100+ clients across many industries: 

                Clear Measure has been recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies for 2024 based on revenue growth.

                Austin Business Journal Fastest Growing Companies jn Central Texas

                Webinars

                Our live events support industry collaboration and leadership.

                Articles

                We share software development and deployment best practices.

                Tools

                Free Guides, eBooks, Posters and Templates.

                Expand Your Knowledge: Guiding You to IT Success

                There’s power in education, and we love sharing our knowledge! Take a look at our vast library of resources on development and industry best practices. 

                Ready to lead your team to achieve successful software delivery with any project?

                Schedule a free strategy session with CTO & Chairman Jeffrey Palermo to get your questions answered. You’re not alone. We’re here to guide you!