We built Clover because the work between companies shouldn't run on email
Onboarding, compliance, document collection, product data, corrective actions. In most organizations, these processes are held together by email threads, spreadsheets, and institutional memory. When someone leaves, the process leaves with them. When the auditor asks why a decision was made, no one has a clean answer. We're building the system that should have existed all along.
- Founded 2019
- Headquartered in Massachusetts
- Distributed team
- Used by buying organizations across industries
Every inter-company process has a lifecycle. In most organizations, it's invisible.
Products get onboarded. Documents get reviewed. Decisions get made. But the lifecycle is scattered across tools that don't talk to each other: an email here, a shared drive there, an approval that lives in someone's memory.
We've spent our careers in this space: foodservice data synchronization, contract management, trade promotion management, supplier compliance. We've seen the same pattern across every industry: the processes between companies are critical, and they're running on tools that were never designed for them.
A system of action
The market has supplier data platforms, document management tools, and compliance systems. Each can tell you what's true about a supplier, and what's missing. Clover turns what's missing into work, drives it to resolution, and keeps the full history of decisions and reasoning that produced the result.
Execution, not just data collection
Portals collect data and wait for someone to act on it. Clover moves work through stages: a supplier submits a document, it gets validated against your rules, anything that needs a decision goes to the right reviewer, and the decision gets recorded. The process runs. It doesn't wait.
Decision context, not just audit logs
Audit logs tell you what happened. Clover captures why, in an immutable, hash-linked ledger. When a supplier updates a field and your team accepts it, the record shows the original value, the new value, who reviewed it, and the note they left. Tamper-evident and always queryable.
Configurable, not custom
Custom development means months of work and results that can't evolve. Clover's behavior comes from configuration: your industry's terminology, compliance requirements, and workflow steps. A new vertical implementation takes weeks, not months. When a new regulation hits, you deploy a template and configure it.
Super simple for suppliers
Your suppliers don't want another portal to manage. Clover shows them a guided task list: here's what we need, here's where to provide it, here's what's outstanding. Built-in conversations keep questions tied to the work. They complete the task and they're done. Nothing to learn.
Leadership
Kirby McBride
Co-founder & President
Founded FSEnet+ (now Syndigo), where he helped thousands of companies manage product data across the foodservice supply chain. 30 years in B2B.
Josh McBride
Co-founder & CEO
Previously led sales and partnerships at Rise People, with 12 years building go-to-market teams in B2B SaaS. Leads go-to-market and client success.
Shawn Cady
Co-founder & CPO
Previously VP of Product at Syndigo. Leads platform strategy and product development. 25 years across foodservice, retail, and healthcare B2B.
Michael Owens
VP Business Development
Executive leadership across SaaS and CPG organizations. Leads new customer acquisition. 25 years in B2B.
Alex Masalov
Engineering & Architecture
Designed and built the Clover platform from the ground up: workflow engine, audit ledger, and AI pipeline.
Frequently asked questions
Clover was founded in 2019 by Kirby McBride, Josh McBride, and Shawn Cady. Together they bring decades of experience in B2B supplier data, product information, and go-to-market, including building FSEnet+ (now Syndigo).
Clover is headquartered in Massachusetts, with a distributed team across North America and Europe.
Buying organizations across industries use Clover to manage their supplier relationships and the work between them: onboarding, compliance, product data, pricing, and corrective actions. Customers include foodservice distributors, retailers, manufacturers, corporate procurement teams, and healthcare organizations.