Every item. Every ZIP. One sourced answer.
The same item routes three different ways in three nearby ZIPs. ClearPath is the disposal-intelligence platform connecting residents, counties, facilities, and haulers, so households stop guessing and counties stop fielding the same call twice. Built by TANN Innovations in Minnesota.
Same item
Wooden chair (resident question)
ZIP 55416 → St. Louis Park, MN
Recommended path
Donate it — it's still useful
· Hennepin County rule · donation path
Preparation
Habitat ReStore, Bridging, Better Futures all accept chairs
Source
Hennepin County furniture guide · in catalog
verified this week
ZIP-level rule resolution from ClearPath's live Disposal Engine.
Three questions we kept hearing.
We didn't start with a product. We started with the same three questions, asked over and over, by three different audiences.
What residents keep asking
Can I throw this lithium battery in the trash?
Wrong answer: fire in a recycling truck, contamination at the transfer station. Right answer: a Google search, a city-hall phone call, a parking trip.
→ ClearPath answers in seconds — sourced to the EPA Universal Waste Rule (40 CFR §273), with the nearest Call2Recycle drop-off.
What county operators ask when rules change
How do we tell every household that the curbside rule changed?
The PDF on the city website gets read by ~3% of residents. Door hangers are expensive. The rule change becomes a new contamination pattern instead.
→ ClearPath's rule resolver is updated once. Every resident in every ZIP sees the new answer the next time they ask.
What haulers ask about job quality
Can I get pickup requests with photos and prep notes, not vague phone calls?
A pickup booked over the phone takes three calls and two callbacks. The truck arrives to an item that's bigger, heavier, or hazardous in a way no one mentioned.
→ ClearPath's job board hands haulers a structured request — item photos, hazard flags, and a confirmed address.
ClearPath connects all three sides around one sourced, ZIP-aware answer.
Inside one ClearPath answer.
Follow one item — a spent laptop battery — through the cascade behind a single ClearPath answer. Federal rule. State rule. County rule. Verified take-back. Every source shown is real.
You see an item
A resident captures the item — photo, short description, or a voice note. ClearPath accepts whichever input is easiest in the moment.
Spent laptop battery
photo · text · voice
ClearPath identifies it
The vision pipeline names the item and the material, flags any hazard signals up front, and asks one clarifying question if the local rule branches on item condition.
The authority chain resolves the rule
Federal → State → County → City. Every verdict shows which authority level produced which step, with the source URL and the date it was last verified.
EPA Universal Waste · 40 CFR §273
Minnesota HAZWASTE program
Hennepin Household Hazardous Waste intake
Richfield collection schedule
You get a sourced answer
The verdict, the recommended path, the source citation, and an honest confidence score. Never a silent guess — when rules are ambiguous, ClearPath shows it.
Recommended path
Take to Household Hazardous Waste
Source: EPA Universal Waste Rule · 40 CFR §273 · verified this week
Reuse before disposal
If the item is reuse-eligible and a verified donation or take-back path is nearby, ClearPath surfaces it before the disposal CTA. The landfill is the last option, not the first.
Call2Recycle · Best Buy Richfield
1 of 28 verified take-back programs
That's one item. ClearPath runs this cascade for every disposal question, in every ZIP it covers.
Four things we don't compromise on.
Sourced answers
Every recommendation points back to a municipal rule, program page, or verified facility policy.
Freshness dates
Rules carry verification dates, so you always know how current the guidance is.
Honest uncertainty
When rules are unclear, ClearPath shows its confidence and points to a verified source. It does not guess silently.
Private by design
Your location and items are used only to answer your question. Nothing shared, nothing sold.
A sourced answer for every item.
Pick an item to see a ClearPath-style answer: cited, confidence-scored, with a reuse alternative before the curb.
Classified item
Lithium-ion battery
Laptop battery, spent
Recommended path
Take to Household Hazardous Waste
Never curbside — fire risk when crushed
Source · Freshness
EPA Universal Waste Rule · 40 CFR §273 · in catalog
Reuse alternative
→ Best Buy Richfield · Call2Recycle drop-off
One platform. Three audiences.
For residents
Ask in seconds with a photo, text, or voice. Get a sourced, ZIP-aware answer. Schedule a pickup or find a take-back program nearby. Track it from request to done.
For haulers
Pickup requests that arrive with photos, prep notes, and a confirmed address. A job board scoped to your service area. Reliability-based visibility, scheduled lifecycle tracking, and in-app messaging.
For cities & counties
One place to manage rules, review resident corrections, broadcast changes, and watch which items confuse which ZIPs. Authority is preserved end-to-end with sources and verification dates.
One workspace for the rules residents actually follow.
Update a rule once. Every resident in every ZIP sees the new answer the next time they ask. Spot the items that confuse a specific neighborhood before they become a contamination pattern.
Authority is preserved end-to-end: Federal → State → County → City, all sourced, all dated. Your operators stop fielding the same call twice; your residents stop getting different answers from different staff.
Rule + facility management
Every rule carries its source URL and verification date. Edits cascade to every resident query the next time they ask.
Resident correction review
When residents flag a wrong answer, it lands in a queue your team owns, with the source, the item, and the ZIP that flagged it.
Broadcast announcements
When a rule changes mid-cycle, every resident in scope gets the new answer the next time they ask. No mailer, no door hanger.
Confusion-hotspot insights
See which items cluster in which ZIPs before they become a contamination call. Outreach gets pointed instead of broadcast.
Four things we believe, and what they mean for the work.
01
Build thoroughly
One product, finished properly, before a second one starts. We'd rather ship five things that work than fifty that don't.
02
Human-centered
Every decision begins with: is this actually helpful? AI should make people's lives simpler, not more complicated.
03
Sourced & trustworthy
Every answer traces back to a real rule, with the date it was last verified. We show the reasoning. We don't hide it.
04
Quiet ambition
Less pitching. More building. More listening to the people who actually use what we make. The product does the talking.
One flagship, shipped. The rest, still in research.
We build slowly. ClearPath is our entire engineering effort right now. Live at tann.app, in pilots, getting deeper coverage every month. That's the current focus, and it stays the current focus until it's serving real communities at scale.
The next products in the TANN ecosystem are still in research. Civic-tech problems we're studying, not yet building. When we do build them, the same model applies: sourced, locally-aware, multi-sided. And the same standard: nothing marketed before it exists in code.
We'll name them publicly when they ship — not before.
ClearPath
A disposal-intelligence platform connecting residents, counties, facilities, and haulers around one sourced answer — for every item, every ZIP.
Stage
Pilots open
Coverage
6 jurisdictions
When the next TANN product is ready to meet real residents and counties, it gets its own card here. Same as ClearPath did.
Replace the 50-page guide nobody reads.
Early access is open for municipalities, hauler networks, and community sustainability programs. Send a short note — the founder reads every one.
Cities & counties
Reduce contamination, cut support volume, measure diversion.
Haulers & service providers
Qualified leads with item photos and prep notes.
Nonprofits
Get surfaced in disposal flows whenever reuse is possible.
Every rule, sourced.
Every rule on ClearPath carries its source URL and the date a TANN operator verified it. No black-box AI guesses, no unsourced advice. Just real authorities, organized end-to-end.
Federal
- EPA
- FDA
- DEA
State
- Minnesota
- California
- Massachusetts
Local
- Hennepin County
- City of Richfield
Disposal, with the work shown.
Try the guide to see what a real ClearPath answer looks like. Or talk to the founder directly about a pilot in your community.