Clear Digital Inc

BACKGROUND

I am the Co-Founder of San Jose International Short Film Festival

The San Jose International Short Film Festival is an annual four-day film festival showcasing world-class short films from filmmakers around the globe.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

• We originally engaged Clear Digital to help us create a stronger, more recognizable identity for the festival and bring that identity to life across our marketing. Over the past 10+ years, that relationship has continued to evolve. Each year, we work with their team to develop a fresh creative theme for the festival and extend it across our website, advertising, event graphics, digital materials, and other promotional touchpoints. Our goal has always been to make the festival feel distinctive, professional, and exciting while creating a consistent experience for filmmakers, attendees, sponsors, and the broader San Jose community.

SOLUTION

Referral

• Close to my geographic location
• Great culture fit
• Strong Creative capabilities

2-5 Employees

Clear Digital has been a creative partner to the San Jose International Short Film Festival for more than 10 years. The engagement has gone well beyond designing a website. Their team has helped shape how the festival looks and feels each year, developing an annual creative concept and carrying it consistently across our digital presence and event marketing. One of the things we value most is their ability to take a simple festival theme or idea and turn it into a complete visual campaign that feels unique to that year while still being recognizable as SJSFF.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

The best measure of success is the longevity and growth of the festival and our relationship with Clear Digital. We’ve worked together for more than a decade, during which SJSFF has grown from a local film event into a four-day international Oscar Qualifying festival showcasing more than 100 films from around the world. Clear Digital has helped us maintain a professional, recognizable brand throughout that growth. Every year, we’re able to introduce a fresh creative theme without losing the identity we’ve built over time. The website and supporting campaign materials also give us a consistent platform for promoting films, communicating schedules and events, selling tickets, recognizing sponsors, and building excitement leading up to the festival.

After working together for more than 10 years, Clear Digital understands our festival, our schedule, and what needs to happen as we approach opening night. There are always a lot of moving pieces as the festival gets closer—films are being finalized, schedules change, sponsors are added, and new promotional needs come up. Their team has always been responsive and flexible when those things happen. They communicate clearly, meet our deadlines, and are willing to jump in when we need something quickly. That reliability is a big reason the relationship has lasted as long as it has.

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Their creativity and their investment in what we’re trying to accomplish. Clear Digital doesn’t approach the festival like it’s simply another website or design project. Every year, they come back with ideas for how we can make the festival feel fresh and memorable. They understand that the creative theme has to work everywhere—from the website and advertising to posters, video, signage, and the experience at the festival itself. They’re also local to San Jose, so there’s a connection to the festival and the community that has always made the relationship feel more like a partnership than a traditional client-agency relationship. More than 10 years later, we’re still working together, which I think is the strongest endorsement I can give them.

Nothing significant comes to mind. After working together for this long, we’ve developed a very natural rhythm. They understand what we need, they know our deadlines, and they continue to bring new creative thinking to the festival each year.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Marketing & Design Manager of CenTrio

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

CenTrio delivers reliable, efficient, cost-effective heating, cooling, & power through district energy networks.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Clear Digital Inc to accomplish?

• Create a brand new website for our company

SOLUTION

How did you find Clear Digital Inc?

Other

Why did you select Clear Digital Inc over others?

Referred to me

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

This project was a complete overhaul of our existing website. The goal was to make it more modern and user friendly. Our old website was out dated and we relied on Clear Digital to guide us on not only the new look of our website, but to have our pages and functionality of our new website be set up in the way that current websites are today.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

The main outcome of this project was to have Clear Digital design us a new website that looked and performed like newer websites are at this time. Our current website was outdated and not user friendly with how the funcionality was set up for our website visitors.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Project management was the best I've ever experienced. Communication was provided in a clear and timely way and their project manager helped keep our company and theirs on track to meet the target deadline.

What was your primary form of communication with Clear Digital Inc?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Very knowledgeable and professional team members. By the time they completed our website it felt like we had a new department within our own company. They worked well with our team and made the process educational and fun along the way.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Clear Digital Inc could have done differently?

Better explanation of how things work in the site template phase. Our team had never been part of a complete website redesign before, we didn't fully understand how what we were seeing during the template design phase to know what questions to ask, when things should have a button or not, etc. We did get the hang of things, but much too late in the process and by that time it was too late to change course on past templates that had already been approved and designed.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the SVP Marketing of a marketing firm

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Fractional marketing leadership for B2B SaaS and AI companies, focused on demand generation, GTM strategy, and brand.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Clear Digital Inc to accomplish?

• Redesign and rebuild the site to reflect current brand and positioning
• Improve UX and conversion performance
• Extend brand and design consistency across other marketing assets and initiatives

SOLUTION

How did you find Clear Digital Inc?

Other

Why did you select Clear Digital Inc over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Company values aligned
• Other

How many teammates from Clear Digital Inc were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

When I joined NobleAI as the first marketing hire, we needed a website live fast, so I worked with the CEO and a freelance designer to launch V1 of the logo, visuals, and corporate website in weeks using stock imagery and Webflow templates. 

About a year later, once NobleAI's positioning had matured, we engaged Clear Digital for "V2": evolving the brand identity, which included refreshing the website for performance and conversion. 

Key deliverables: 

• Refreshed brand identity: replaced the early, stock-based visuals from V1 with a new (not stock-based) visual system built specifically for NobleAI's category 
• New design assets built on that system, including: Sales enablement assets, event assets such as booth designs
• Website redesign across desktop and mobile: updated page templates, sharper messaging hierarchy, UI/UX design, and clearer conversion paths from top-of-funnel content to demo requests 
• Optimized the CMS on Webflow so marketing could update content and simple fixes independently. Built in CMS options that allowed the Marketing team to "turn on or off" as needed (i.e., Featured Sections, certain Launch highlight sections, etc)
• Technical work for the website, e.g., improved site speed. Ensured pages were built for AEO/GEO functionality

Clear Digital's work gave NobleAI a refreshed brand system, including a website built to support demand generation, which mattered as marketing-sourced pipeline scaled significantly during that period.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Clear Digital led a brand identity and website redesign for NobleAI, an enterprise AI company, evolving our original branding into a more mature, cohesive identity. They developed a refreshed visual motif that carried through the website, content templates, and sales assets the Clear Digital team created, providing a unified look across every format the brand touched and cutting time spent recreating content from scratch for every presentation, conversation, etc.

The updated website included clearer, optimized conversion paths and a more polished UX, giving us a credible, enterprise-ready presence right as NobleAI scaled outbound and investor conversations. Sales pointed prospects to the site directly instead of working around it.

Clear Digital delivered on time and proactively suggested updates rather than waiting to be told what to change. Their team was easy to collaborate with throughout the project.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Clear Digital assigned a dedicated project lead who met with our team every week. Those calls covered what was in progress and walked through a clear plan with real milestone dates. They delivered on time throughout the engagement. The lead also came prepared with ideas we hadn't asked for. They weren't pushing us to buy anything, just flagging things worth thinking about. 

They were just as reliable between calls. If our PM was out, someone else picked up right away, no waiting around on an email hoping for a reply. Clear Digital was one of the most responsive and communicative teams we've worked with.

What was your primary form of communication with Clear Digital Inc?

Virtual Meeting

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

What stood out most was the depth and range of the full-service team at Clear Digital. Web design and development is their core strength, backed by skilled people across UI/UX, design, and development who clearly do this daily. When we needed copywriting or other branding work outside a typical web project, they brought in someone from their own team who was just as skilled instead of telling us it wasn't their scope. It felt less like hiring a vendor and more like adding an extension of our marketing team. That same quality showed up day to day. They met timelines without us having to chase anyone, and they regularly raised ideas we hadn't considered, like a different approach worth testing. The team was genuinely invested in ensuring their work met a best-in-class standard.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Clear Digital Inc could have done differently?

Nothing significant stands out. If anything, the only adjustment was early on, making sure our internal team was as fast at providing feedback as Clear Digital was at delivering work. Once we found that rhythm, everything ran smoothly.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Executive of Champion the Challenges

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

A nonprofit focused on helping heart & stroke survivors live their best lives now

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Clear Digital Inc to accomplish?

• Create an enaging and inspiring website for survivors, families and the medical community
• Architect easy to navigate features, and call to actions (CTA) for sticky and useful help

SOLUTION

How did you find Clear Digital Inc?

Referral

Why did you select Clear Digital Inc over others?

• High ratings
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from Clear Digital Inc were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

As a start-up, the scope of work included branding, imagery, logos, and the user experience

-Create a scalable look and feel

-Provide navigation that is easy and inviting 

-Ensure we offer users a quick way to be informed and offer help that is reliable and relevant navigation

-Ensure all business plugin services (e.g., Salesforce, Mailchimp, etc.) are integrated successfully

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

• Project delivered on time and on budget
• Increased web traffic by 35%
• Increased SEO by 44%

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

The team met deadlines, provided clear requirements, and ensured the right talent was aligned with our team for quick, efficient planning calls and deliverables. 

What was your primary form of communication with Clear Digital Inc?

Virtual Meeting

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Great design, speed of execution, and clear focus on measurable results

Are there any areas for improvement or something Clear Digital Inc could have done differently?

Keeping that balance of "pushing" us (client) for content/decisions while patiently waiting when the schedule permits.