About Clearwood
Clearwood helps companies and auditors catch mistakes in artificial intelligence systems used for high-stakes work. It monitors all live activity and traces each finding to its source. It catches unsupported answers and summaries that conflict with records. It also flags policy-breaking actions and instructions hidden in outside content.
Clearwood is a public-benefit corporation in Oregon City, Oregon. It has design partnerships with market-intelligence and healthcare companies. Co-founder Matt Levinson is chief executive officer. Co-founder Michael Klear is chief technology officer.
Funding Rounds (SEC Form D)
| First sale | Filed with SEC | Amount sold | Investors | Avg. check | Terms | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 2026 | Nov 13, 2026 | $110,000of $1.5M target | 2 | $55,000 | Equity, Options, Securities on exerciseRule 506(b) | Form D ↗ |
First sale is the date the first investor in the offering committed to invest. Companies must file Form D within 15 days of that date, so filing dates run later.
Why Investors Backed Clearwood
AI vendors test systems before launch, while customers and regulators often investigate only after an incident. Clearwood argues that independent checks must fill that gap. Its unchanged monitor lets customers compare behavior before and after vendor updates. [1]
Origin and Team
Matt Levinson, Michael Klear and Scott Burns co-founded Clearwood. Levinson has a doctorate in statistics and conducted fellowship-funded research in technical AI safety. Klear shipped production machine-learning systems at Nike and Coinbase. He was a founding engineer at Yofi, which was acquired. Burns co-founded Guide Financial, which was acquired. He also launched WeaveGrid's first products for utilities. [1]
Product and Technology
Clearwood reads outputs and actions from existing logs or telemetry. Small scoring models, trained on a customer's examples, evaluate each result. Riskier cases then receive human review or a more expensive second-stage assessment. Reports trace each finding to its source. [1]
Customers can start with about two weeks of historical outputs. A roughly 30-day, read-only shadow phase follows on live traffic. Ongoing monitoring then covers selected high-value workflows. Each stage requires minimal integration within the customer's data-governance rules. [1]
Monitoring runs inside the customer's environment and checks every output and action rather than a sample. Customer reviewers can audit verdict samples. Clearwood also collects evidence for SOC 2 and ISO 42001 work. [1]
Market
Clearwood focuses on companies that depend on AI vendors in high-stakes workflows, plus the auditors who approve them. It positions independent monitoring between annual certification and builders' debugging tools. [1]
We wrote this summary from public statements by Clearwood and its investors. It is not investment advice.
Leadership Team
Executive officers and directors listed on Clearwood's Form D filed Nov 13, 2026.
Sources
- CompanyClearwood homepage and team · linked above ↑
- SECClearwood Form D, filed 2026-11-13 · linked above ↑
- SECClearwood, PBC filing history