ClearlySo

We provide useful services for social business.

We are the first online marketplace for social business & enterprise, commerce and investment.

ClearlySo answers the practical needs of social businesses and enterprises. We introduce them to investors, product & service vendors - and each other.  We are:

• A visibility platform: Helping social businesses and enterprises raise their profile among peers, potential investors, the public and government
• A marketplace: Enabling social businesses and enterprises to trade with each other & access investment capital
• An information centre for anyone who is or wants to get involved in the social business and investment sector, helping them acquire and share expertise
• A meeting place giving social businesses and enterprises exposure to each other, key product and service providers and socially-minded investors

We are continually developing the site, regularly adding new features and content in reaction to feedback from interviews with users of the site.

What does the name mean?

ClearlySo:  We first came up with ‘Clearly’ as a name for the site and the business, to represent our principles of honesty, transparency and pragmatism.  Quickly discovering that the web domain clearly.com had been taken by a laser and cataract company in Alabama, we moved on to the idea of adding the suffix ‘So’ for social, and because it sounded emphatic and authoritative.  It also enabled us to use the name flexibly for our different constituencies, as in: ClearlySocial  Enterprise or ClearlySocial Investment. 

We hope that, together, the two words portray the idea of a clear and obvious way ahead for business.