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Clock Four
2670 Leavenworth Ave., Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94133 Map Fax 415.409.2422
info@clockfour.com

About Us

We build complex web sites based on smart strategy and great design. ECommerce, Content Management, Search Optimization, Mobile Applications and Web 2.0 Interfaces. And we're nice people too.

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Leadership Service Experience Collaboration

Clock Four was founded in 2006 by a team of senior interactive industry professionals tired of "business as usual" in digital agencies. Each brought a decade of experience of strategic leadership at name-brand digital shops.

We saw that our clients—both small and large — wanted a fresher, more strategic, more team-oriented approach without the overhead and churn of the legacy digital vendors, and retaining top-tier staff talent, experience, and processes.

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Trust Inspiration Knowledge Passion

Clock Four Strategy is based on a digital-specific, results-oriented methodology that balances the needs of digital consumers with online business and marketing goals. Our process encourages collaboration, consensus, crystal-clear success criteria, and top-tier deliverables.

Clock Four Design marries elegant usability-driven design principles with excellence in visual design to create inspiring and efficient user experiences that maximize engagement, accessibility, and performance.

Clock Four Technology brings the power of sophisticated systems integration together with the innovation and excitement of true web 2.0 development. Our passion for digital technology reaches from the enterprise datacenter to the mobile handset.

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Our Name

Our name, Clock Four, is a homage to the work of 18th century British inventor John Harrison. Although his existing inventions were already revolutionary, his drive to refine and innovate produced his "fourth clock", a leap forward which transformed not just timekeeping, but opened up the entire world to exploration and understanding.

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Capabilities

Capabilities
Digital Strategy Channel Strategy Globalization Search Optimization Workflow
User Experience Visual Design Web Video Usability Information Architecture
Technology Web 2.0 Site Building Content Management eCommerce Social Network Integration Mobile Apps SharePoint

Capabilities

Full-service Digital Consulting

Clock Four is a full-service consulting firm that delivers integrated strategy, design and technology solutions that can take your project from concept through launch and beyond. Our deep expertise and team-oriented approach ensures the most efficient, cost-effective and dependable solution, regardless of size or complexity.

Digital Strategy

Discover Validate Justify Manage

Clock Four provides executive-level web and mobile channel strategy to guide our clients through the complexities of the modern digital landscape. Our experienced senior consultants offer a complete suite of strategy services:

We provide platform procurement, competitive analysis, needs assessment and business process transformation discovery and management services.

Our discovery and core requirements development services include structured group work sessions, IEEE-based business and functional requirements, high-level architecture documentation and rapid prototyping of web and mobile system.

We deliver workflow design, security and entitlement systems, publishing and content transformation, social networking oversight, and ongoing channel governance.

Our Globalization and Localization practice offers strategy and system architecture, content management integration planning, and large-scale content migration preparation and management.

User Experience

Usability Accessibility Delight

Clock Four’s visual design and user experience services deliver on the potential of user-centered-design principles and the creation of delightful, usable online experiences.

We develop stand-alone digital experiences, and work to extend established design systems to the web and mobile environments. Our visual design strategy emphasizes usability and elegance without sacrificing performance, search optimization, ease-of-maintenance or future evolution opportunities.

Our collaborative design methodology allows us to work closely and productively with offline agency partners, brand management teams, and above-the-line campaigns.

Our information architecture services provide thorough content audits, detailed and precise site maps, grey-box wireframes, design pattern and interface documentation, and user-persona-driven flow diagrams.

We perform usability audits, facilitate and perform formal user testing sessions, and host visual design and user experience focus groups.

Technology

Innovation Experience Quality

Clock Four is a leader in online technology integration. Our technology consultants are industry leaders in online-specific digital development for both Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer systems.

We specialize in systems development too complex or too critical to trust with other partners: Content Management and Globalization systems, eCommerce platforms, SharePoint, social network integration, and mobile application development.

Our development methodology is results-oriented: Clearly documented, well-architected, business-focused, thoroughly tested, and deployed with care.

We maintain key partnerships with leading platform and service providers to ensure best-in-class offerings and up-to-date training:

service providers, microsoft, autonomy, ektron, rackspace, akamai

Our infrastructure and hosting planning services are fine-tuned to meet every client’s unique needs and are based on years of experience and a passion for cloud-based and CDN-based architectures.

We are core contributors to the AJAX revolution, contributing time and core code to improve the underlying systems that drive Web 2.0.

Clients

Clock Four exists to help our clients establish and expand success and innovation in their consumer and B-to-B digital channels. We work with organizational thought leaders who want to take advantage of the unique and emerging opportunities in online and mobile, and who have a vision of deeply and effectively aligning their customers with their products, people, and processes.

With offices in San Francisco, Bend, and the New York City metropolitan area, we are large enough to engage and service global brands, and small enough to ensure that senior staff, the people you meet in the pitch, actually work on your project.