About us
Clue is a world-class investigation and intelligence management application that centralises and links all information in searchable data structures. Our software enables diverse investigation teams worldwide to detect threats, prevent recurrence, uncover actionable intelligence, and progress investigations to successful outcomes at pace.
Detect early, investigate at pace, act with certainty
Our journey started in law enforcement. Clue began as a tool for police to organise, manage and search evidence and export case files quickly and easily. The advantages of digitalising investigations quickly spread to other sectors and industries.
Today, Clue serves a growing global community of investigation professionals across law enforcement, government, not for profit, sports and corporate organisations.
What makes us different
Domain expertise
Clue is knowledgeable. We listen to and work closely with investigations professionals, and we strive to ensure Clue provides the optimal solution to the primary challenges you face each day.
Complete product
Clue is a single application. We enable investigations professionals to conduct enhanced end-to-end investigations and intelligence intuitively, without disparate tools and spreadsheets.
Global community
Clue is not just a software provider. We bring together a global community of cross-sector investigations professionals who want to connect with and learn from one another. Learn more about Clue Communities.
Cloud solution
Clue is flexible, collaborative and scalable. Whatever your team size, Clue is implementable out-of-the-box, ensuring enhanced investigations and intelligence operations are up and running quickly.
Connected
Clue is focused on connections. Our application is developed to uncover links within your data to build intelligence. We continually add integrations to ensure Clue is interoperable with other systems.
Outcome driven
We are driven by helping you make a safer society. Clue ensures investigations and intelligence is robust and compliant, while helping you evaluate your operations to prevent threats and minimise recurrence.
Trusted by
Clue is trusted by 4000+ investigation professionals worldwide, spanning law enforcement, government, not for profit, corporate and sports organisations.
The Team
Clare Elford
Clare is Chief Executive Officer, and co-owner, of Clue. Under Clare’s stewardship, Clue has become a leading investigation case management and intelligence platform. Clare has driven the development of a single platform, interoperable product that is at the centre of the investigation technology ecosystem.
Thomas Drohan
Thomas is Chief Commercial Officer, and co-owner, of Clue. Thomas has extensive experience building and leading world-class technology businesses. He is passionate about creating teams that are focused on customer success by working closely with product users to understand their changing environments and challenges to meet their needs.
Adam Hale
Adam has served as non-executive Chair of Clue since November 2021. He is also Chair of SaaS businesses Orbus Software and Arctic Shores, operating partner for SALESmanago and edays, Venture Partner for Notion Capital, Partner of ScaleUp Group and committee member of Boardwave.
Rachel Evans
Rachel Evans is chief customer officer at Clue Software, bringing a wealth of experience across multiple industries, specialising in customer experience from pre-sales, implementation through to support and customer success.
Phil Suddick
Phil is a former law enforcement officer. During his thirty-year service to 2015, he specialised in proactive and reactive complex anti-corruption investigations and the covert investigation and locating of high-risk global fugitives. Phil then moved into the world of sport tackling global corruption in tennis.
Nick Gregory
Nick is the chief marketing officer for Clue Software and is responsible for the business’s global marketing and communications strategy. Nick has over 35 years of experience in B2B software marketing, sales and product development. He joined Clue in August 2022, having previously served as CMO for nearly six years at IRIS Software Group.
Nick Harber
Nick is Chief Financial Officer of Clue. Nick joined Clue in 2021, playing a key role in securing the strategic growth investment from Frog Capital. Nick also fulfils the role of COO.
Matt Horne
Matt is Head of Policing and Government. A former law enforcement leader, he served for 30 years in policing and national security, accomplishing the position of National Crime Agency Deputy Director - Investigations. He is expert in the domains of intelligence and investigations, with experience leading the most complex and high risk operations at national level.
Jenny Thomson
Jenny has worked in HR/People for more than 14 years, helping companies across various sectors grow and succeed by cultivating healthy, motivated, and inclusive environments. Jenny is passionate about fostering a welcoming and enjoyable workplace culture where individuals can thrive.
Rob Thomas
Rob is a seasoned technology professional with over 30 years’ experience in delivering robust and scalable software solutions, utilising cutting-edge technologies and delivering successful projects that have resulted in significant revenue growth. His passion for technology and his drive to build high-quality software products align perfectly with Clue’s vision.
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