Most developers can build you an app but can't tell you whether the numbers coming out of it are right. Most accountants can tell you the numbers are wrong but can't fix the system producing them. Clear Ledger does both.
A real problem I solve: bank exports your accounting software won't accept.
Small businesses rarely have one clean problem. The spreadsheet is broken because the system is broken, and the system is broken because nobody set up the accounting behind it. I work across all of it.
Purpose-built tools for the work you're currently doing by hand in a spreadsheet or by copying between two systems that refuse to talk to each other.
Practical automation aimed at the repetitive work eating your week — not a chatbot bolted onto your homepage.
Getting a real system in place — and getting it configured so it reflects how your business actually runs.
The foundation everything else sits on. If the chart of accounts is wrong, no amount of software will save the reports.
A developer, a systems consultant, and an accountant — each one billing you to get up to speed on your business, and each one blaming the other two when something breaks between them.
You explain your business once. The person who scopes the project is the person who builds it and the person who answers the phone afterward.
Tools get built to match how your books need to work — not the other way around, which is how businesses end up with reports nobody trusts.
No enterprise minimums, no team of junior consultants learning on your dime, no six-figure platform you'll use eight percent of.
I'm Reese Blaylock. I started Clear Ledger because I kept running into the same situation from both sides: businesses with software that didn't match how they actually operate, and books that couldn't be trusted as a result.
There's no account manager here, no handoff to someone junior after you sign. The person on your scoping call is the person writing the code and the person who picks up the phone eight months later when something changes. I keep the client list small on purpose so that stays true.
Clear Ledger is based in South Haven, Kansas. Most work happens remotely, and I travel to client sites regularly when a project needs someone in the room.
Every engagement follows the same four steps, whether it's a two-week build or an ongoing monthly arrangement.
You describe what's broken and what it's costing you in time or money. I tell you honestly whether I can help — and if I can't, who might.
You get exactly what will be built, what it costs, and when it's done — in writing, before any work starts. No hourly meter running in the background.
You see working software as it comes together, not a status report about it. Course corrections are cheap early and expensive late, so we make them early.
Documentation written for your team, training so people actually use it, and someone to call when something changes. Ongoing support available monthly.
I don't publish a price list, because a number that fits one business would be wrong for the next one. What I can tell you is how the pricing works — and that part doesn't change.
You get one number for the whole project, agreed before anything starts. No meter running in the background, no invoice that arrives larger than you expected.
Thirty minutes to understand the problem. You get a straight answer about whether it's worth solving — including when the answer is no.
Monthly bookkeeping, ERP support, and maintenance are billed at a predictable rate you agree to up front, so it's a line item you can plan around.
A sentence or two is enough — what's broken, or what you wish existed. I'll come back with a realistic range for a project like it, and what would go into a firm quote.
No. Clear Ledger is based in South Haven, Kansas, and works with small businesses across the country. Most of the work happens remotely, and I travel to client sites regularly when a project calls for being there in person.
Not at all. Plenty of clients hire me strictly for a custom tool or an integration and handle their own books. The accounting background just means I ask better questions about your data before I start building on top of it.
It depends on scope, so I quote each project individually rather than publishing a price list that would be wrong for most people. Every quote is a fixed price agreed in writing before work starts — no hourly meter, no invoice that surprises you. Email Ask@clearyourledger.com with a rough description and I'll tell you what a project like it typically runs.
QuickBooks Online, Desktop, and Enterprise are where most small-business work lives, and I work in them daily. I also work with other major ERP and accounting platforms — if you're on something specific, ask on the call and I'll tell you straight whether it's in my wheelhouse.
Yes, and it's one of the more common requests. Misclassified transactions, a chart of accounts that grew without a plan, reconciliations that stopped balancing years ago — that's fixable work, and it's worth doing before anything gets built on top of it.
Scoping calls usually happen within a few days of reaching out. Project start depends on current workload — I take on a limited number of builds at a time deliberately, so you're not competing for attention.
Thirty minutes, no cost, no pitch deck. If there's a good way to fix it, I'll tell you what it would take. If there isn't, I'll tell you that too.