How we got to Clarity
30 years of program delivery. 20 years at Fortune 500 and Global 2000 scale. 10 years developing the patent-pending DeZolve framework. One conclusion: every engineering failure traces back to the same structural gap.
30
Years
Program Delivery
20
Years
Industrial Scale
10
Years
DeZolve Framework
1,200+
Client engagements
Fortune 500
& Global 2000
Program scale
Defence · Aerospace · Medical
Nuclear · Automotive · Rail
Energy · Space
Mission
Clarity builds the decision accountability infrastructure that sovereign and regulated programs have always needed.
Every decision made today answerable tomorrow. Traceable at inquiry. Defensible in any forum — without the original team, without institutional memory, thirty years from now.
“The evidence was there. The structure to connect a decision to its consequences was not.”
2004 · Automotive · $750M programme cancelled · Company gone within five years
Defence Prime · Through-Life Support
$450M in programme bids won on decision accountability
Built and iterated the Integrated Support Business Model across seven versions, validated on the Hawk Lead-in Fighter, and deployed in major bids. Market-recognised as Australia’s leader in through-life support.
Shipbuilding · Global Defence Integrator · Naval Safety Case
Safety case recovered: 214 days → 21 days at 90% budget consumed
The evidence was not missing — it was scattered. Connected it. Recovered the programme within original budget. Left two Books of Knowledge as institutional standards for future naval programmes.
Global Defence Prime · PTC Windchill A&D · 18 Defence Programmes
One CM framework for 18 concurrent defence programmes. One master report, 9:00am daily.
Architected the PLM Core Template Specification for a global defence prime — a single configuration management framework covering 18 concurrent Windchill A&D defence programmes: lifecycle state machines, change control workflows from PR through ECR to ECN, role-based permissions, and a full MRI report suite. 42 CM use cases across five CM activity domains. One consistent standard. One master report, 9:00am daily.
PLM · Oracle · Data Model · Structural Fragility
One degree symbol. Two weeks of PLM downtime across 18 programmes. The fragility that made Clarity necessary.
During the same programme, a degree symbol (°) in a single specification document caused a two-week outage of the PLM system all 18 concurrent defence programmes depended on. Database encoding configuration — managed at an infrastructure level outside the programme’s control — had introduced a systemic constraint that no architecture review had detected and no test had surfaced. A data model with encoding dependencies, implicit type coercions, or platform-specific constraints is a liability, not a model. Clarity was designed so that class of failure is architecturally impossible.
Nuclear · IAEA Regulated Entity · Radiation Safety
Worker radiation exposure: 70-year IAEA traceability mandate — fake ID broke the chain
Mapped the end-to-end personnel tracking ERD and found the critical gap: fake IDs allowed banned workers to circumvent cumulative radiation limits. The ERD proved the identity traceability failure before a dollar was spent on the wrong answer.
Robert Half · Oracle CRM · AWS Lambda · Data Recovery
30 duplicate CRM systems, Oracle audit risk, data corruption. Recovered with AWS Lambda and S3.
Robert Half’s CRM had accumulated 30 non-production duplicate systems, data corruption, and an Oracle licensing compliance risk that invited audit penalties. Designed an AWS Lambda and S3 overlay for automated reset and restore — 10-minute RPO, 1-hour RTO. Decommissioned the redundant systems. Oracle audit penalties avoided. Significant resources freed and business reputation restored.
Automotive · Mercedes · Safety Engineering
Steering crisis: recall averted, tens of millions in liability avoided
A failure that defeated the top vehicle dynamics engineers — on-centre hysteresis nobody could explain. SPMM comparative analysis of a competitor fleet surfaced the root cause of a dynamic behaviour responsible for rollover and instability on a scale equivalent to the infamous Ford/Firestone SUV rollover recall. Evidence-based decisions are not more expensive than guessing. They are faster.
Global PLM Research · USA & UK · Seven Sites · 2008
Seven PLM deployments visited before writing the specification — 1,000+ findings. The architecture always preceded the tools.
Conducted seven site visits across the US and UK before writing the specification: Eurofighter Typhoon and Nimrod (Warton), MBDA Stevenage, Type 45 Destroyer (Bristol), Astute nuclear submarines (Barrow), PTCUser Conference (California), PTC Boston, and a major US prime with 2,000+ users. Over 1,000 findings. One observation held at every high-maturity site: the architecture preceded the tools, never the other way around.
Amazon Robotics & Mechatronics · Connected PLM · Digital Thread
PLM digital thread cut Amazon Robotics delivery from 3 years to 8 months.
Led Amazon Robotics & Mechatronics’ Connected PLM Workshop (Boston, 2024) — four digital threads across 135 global facilities, 40+ stakeholders. Unblocked a 3-year strategic impasse, reduced PLM system interfaces from 26 to 9, recovered 200 stalled pre-production machines, and delivered an approved 3-year roadmap. The Belgium acquisition model became the global template.
Amazon Fulfilment Network · Global OEE · In-Service Maintenance
Global OEE strategy: $375M annual maintenance savings from metric harmonisation.
As Global OEE Steward for Amazon’s fulfilment network: led the metric harmonisation workshop standardising 400+ incompatible metrics across 300+ facilities and 12PB of annual operational data. Every region measured efficiency differently; no-one could compare across regions. 30% downtime reduction target. The same structural gap as the PLM crisis — no shared definition of state, no common data model. Clarity was built so that is impossible by architecture.
“In 30 years no customer has ever asked to be locked in to legacy tech, with no alternative access to their data.”
Open data format. Customer-owned infrastructure. Your records are yours in perpetuity — independent of Clarity and any technology.
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