Company

Two founders. One standard: show the evidence.

We met in the Michigan Ross Executive MBA program in 2023. CiviClear is the company we've wanted to build together: software that makes federal money easier to receive and harder to lose.

Arad Lahiji

Arad Lahiji

Co-founder & CEO

Arad leads customers and go-to-market. He spent 14 years in performance marketing, most recently as a director of paid media, managing more than $350M in spend and turning a struggling agency unit into its most profitable division. He started in finance and now builds AI automation for back-office work, including a system that processes 300+ invoices a month.

Focus
Customers, design partners, go-to-market
Before
From The Future · independent growth consultant
Education
Executive MBA, Michigan Ross · BS Finance, CSUN
Based
Southern California

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Andrew Crane

Andrew Crane

Co-founder & CTO

Andrew leads product and engineering. He served eight years in the U.S. Marine Corps, then spent eight years in security and audit compliance, most recently leading customer trust at Salesforce, where he built the ISO/IEC 42001 AI management framework. He holds CISA and CRISC certifications and builds rule-checking engines that turn regulations into evidence an auditor accepts.

Focus
Product, engineering, rules and evidence
Before
Salesforce · Palo Alto Networks · U.S. Marine Corps
Education
Executive MBA, Michigan Ross · MS Cybersecurity, UC Berkeley
Based
Southern California

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Why we're building this

Cities and counties already do the hard part: they respond, rebuild and pay. They shouldn't lose reimbursement to a clause nobody caught. We're building the reviewer every finance office deserves, one that cites its work and never guesses.