Clerk replaces the aisles inside your existing convenience store with modular smart-store units, every item secured behind glass and machine-dispensed after payment.
Most convenience stores are single-location businesses. They staff a counter all day, go dark overnight, and absorb shrink they can't see.
Labor is the biggest controllable cost, and it caps the hours you can afford to be open.
Late-night demand doesn't disappear. It goes to whoever stayed open.
Theft, miscounts and unrecorded sales quietly erode margin, usually unseen.
You keep the location, the customers and the margin. The hours stop costing you anything.
Pick the modules your neighborhood buys from, then add or swap them as demand changes. Seven categories cover everything the old aisles held.
Refrigerated water, energy, soda and ready-to-drink coffee, with temperature reported to the platform.
Everything the traditional aisles held: chips, candy, grocery staples, personal care and the things people run out for at midnight.
Nicotine, alcohol and other age-gated products, sold only after verified ID, with compliance handled by us.
Sandwiches, salads, wraps and fruit, date-tracked by the platform and rotated on every restock.
A robotic barista behind glass: bean-to-cup espresso and a tea selection, poured on demand.
Scratch-offs dispensed after verified ID, with the same compliance handling as the restricted counter.
Every module carries a screen up top, always on: brand campaigns, delivery-app promos and what's in stock, at the point of purchase.
Every module reports to one cloud platform, and the four things a manager used to watch are watched for you.
Live stock levels from every module. Nothing sells out unnoticed.
Set rules by hour, category or campaign. Every screen updates at once.
Temperature, door, payment and dispense health, with faults flagged before a customer notices.
Restock lists built from what actually sold, by module and by hour. Clerk-supplied inventory: coming soon.
Brands buy placement next to the product itself, in every store on the network.
Shrink goes to zero because there is nothing to take.
Part of the monthly subscription, sized to your store, for owners who want Clerk to bring the customers, not just serve them.
We run the store's Google listing, reviews, social and local promotions so the neighborhood finds it. A marketing team, without hiring one.
We onboard the store to delivery apps and keep menus synced to live inventory, so nothing sells that isn't on the shelf.
Customers pay online and pick up from the module. No marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
Two revenue relationships in one store: the owner's, and the brands' on the owner's screens and shelves.
Modular units configured for your footprint, installed and maintained by our team. The hardware is paid upfront; after that it's a small monthly subscription tailored to what your store needs. Your sign stays yours; a small “powered by Clerk” mark is all we ask.
Included in the subscription, with updates and support for as long as the store runs on Clerk.
Optional tier on the same subscription; add it when you want Clerk bringing customers, drop it when you don't.
Brands pay for the screens; a share of that revenue goes back to the store owner.
Aggregated, anonymized sell-through data licensed to CPG brands, with the owner sharing in the revenue.
I went looking for a gas station to buy. What I found was a business where payroll was eating the profit.
In January 2026 my dad passed away. He was an entrepreneur, like his father before him and like me. It ran in our blood, but stability never did. With the money I had, I decided to buy a gas station / convenience store.
I sat down with dozens of owners who were selling and went through their tax returns line by line. Every one of them pointed to the same thing: the cost of staffing the store was consuming what the store made. I had spent years building CloudStation, an automated-retail company, and it struck me that every industry was being reinvented except the one on every corner. So I stopped shopping for a gas station and started building the thing that would fix it.
Grew an automated-retail company from $0 to seven-figure annual revenue in under three years, reaching 100+ machines and a 50+ person team.
The same manufacturing partners that produced CloudStation's machines build Clerk's modules, with final assembly in San Francisco and headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia.
The brand and advertising relationships behind CloudStation's screens carry straight over to the ad band above every Clerk module.
Years of signing location deals for unattended retail is where Clerk's first store conversations come from.
We review your existing floor plan, foot traffic and product mix, and recommend which aisles become modules.
ConsultationChoose the modules, the categories and the payment and verification options. We handle permits, insurance and compliance.
DesignOur team removes the old shelving, installs the modules, connects them to the platform and loads the opening inventory.
InstallationWe monitor and maintain the modules; you keep stocking the products you already sell, guided by the dashboard.
LiveClerk's pre-seed is on Wefunder, open to everyone, not just venture funds.
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Four roles open now, more as the first deployments go live.
Clerk is founder-led and hiring its first team. Every role is remote unless noted. If you fit one below, tell us about yourself and link your resume or portfolio.
Produce Clerk's visual world with generative image and video tools: store renders, product photography, commercials and social. You know the models, the prompting craft and what makes an image look real.
Own the cloud platform end to end, from module firmware integration to the ordering storefront and delivery-app APIs.
Run Clerk's presence across social channels: plan the calendar, publish, grow the audience and turn store openings and product drops into content people share.
Run the day to day behind installs and live stores: scheduling, vendors, field crews, logistics and the checklists that keep every store running.
Bring Clerk to convenience-store owners, gas stations and hospitality venues. Earn on every store you sign.
Introduce accredited investors and funds to Clerk's round and earn a referral fee on capital you bring in.
