We build every product alongside the people who use it, from school districts and universities to state and local governments, healthcare organizations, and businesses. Clearlinks is made by Blastoff, founded in New York City in 2020 by brothers Mitchell and Zach Meyer.
Founders
Co-founder & CEO
Mitchell has worked alongside schools since high school, partnering with teachers, administrators, and district leaders on student programs and technology.
He leads partnerships, product direction, and operations. Mitchell is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is based in New York City.
Co-founder & CTO
Zach leads engineering across Blastoff and Clearlinks.
He architected the Clearlinks remediation pipeline and the AI system at its core, and he oversees image recognition, text encoding repair, website auditing, and integrations with customer systems.
Clearlinks is part of Blastoff, the company Mitchell and Zach founded in 2020.
Blastoff also runs a creation studio where K-12 students build games, apps, and digital projects through Otter Island, classroom curriculum, and hackathons from San Francisco to New York.
Advisors
Our advisors have spent their careers in public service, leading school districts, curriculum, and instruction in New York. They keep our products grounded in how public institutions actually work.
Advisor · Retired Superintendent
Lisa is the retired Superintendent of Schools for the Floral Park-Bellerose School District and served nearly nine years as Superintendent of East Rockaway Schools.
Over more than three decades in Long Island public education, she also led curriculum and instruction in Merrick and pupil services in Levittown, after beginning her career as a teacher.
Advisor · Curriculum and Instruction Leader
Melissa is a curriculum and instruction leader with more than two decades in public education.
She previously served as Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum for Floral Park-Bellerose and Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessments for Hicksville Public Schools, after nearly 17 years with NYC Public Schools.
Why Clearlinks
Clearlinks began with the school districts we already partnered with. District after district told us their documents were not accessible, and they had no practical way to fix them. Governments, universities, and healthcare organizations face the same problem, so we built one platform for all of them.
Public organizations publish thousands of PDFs, from meeting agendas and permit forms to patient guides and family newsletters. Most were never built for screen readers, fixing them by hand is slow and costly, and state and local governments face ADA Title II deadlines in 2027 and 2028.
We built our own remediation pipeline around a self-hosted AI vision model that reads each document's layout, reconciles it with the original file, and applies the structure assistive technology relies on.
Clearlinks makes thousands of PDFs accessible every day for school districts, government agencies, and other organizations, and audits their websites for the same standard.
We're based in New York City and happy to connect by phone or in person.
