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Clockwork

Clockwork

Review
8/10
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States·10 - 49 employees·Est. 2002·Reviewed Jul 2026

Minneapolis boutique digital agency delivering experience design and custom software for healthcare, higher education, and nonprofit clients since 2002.

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Best For
Healthcare, higher education, and nonprofit organizations in the Midwest needing a premium experience design and custom software partner
Hourly Rate
$200-300/hr
101% above the $125/hr median for software agencies in United States
Min. Project
$75K+
Industries
Healthcare, Higher Education, Non-profit & Government
Clockwork

Clients

Minnesota LotteryMercury MarineCadillacHäagen-DazsPepsiCoMayo ClinicJacuzziKohler

About Clockwork

Clockwork is a boutique digital agency founded in 2002 and headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, specializing in experience design and custom software for healthcare, higher education, and nonprofit organizations. With a perfect 5.0 Clutch rating and a $200-300/hr engagement rate, Clockwork occupies the premium end of the Midwest digital agency market. Notable clients include North Memorial Health and institutions in the higher education and insurance sectors. Their 20+ year operating history and senior-led team model deliver strategic design and engineering for clients seeking a trusted partner over a throughput-focused vendor.

Who Clockwork Is Best For

Clockwork is best suited for mission-driven organizations with complex experience design requirements and budgets above $75K who want a boutique, senior-led team. Their two-decade track record in healthcare and higher education signals deep domain familiarity, and their experience design specialization benefits clients building patient-facing, student-facing, or member-facing digital products. Organizations that value strategic partnership and senior engineering involvement over cost efficiency will find Clockwork among the most capable boutique options in the Midwest.

Why Choose Clockwork

20+ years in continuous operation since 2002 with a perfect 5.0 Clutch rating
Senior-led boutique model ensures experienced engineers and designers on every engagement
Deep domain expertise in healthcare, higher education, and mission-driven organizations
Experience design specialization differentiates Clockwork from pure-engineering shops
Long-term client relationships reflecting trust and consistent delivery quality

Things to Consider

$200-300/hr rate and $75K+ minimum are among the highest in this tier -- not suitable for SMBs or limited budgets
Only 9 Clutch reviews for a 20+ year firm limits public social proof
Small team size (10-49) constrains capacity for large concurrent engagements

Clockwork Services

Experience Design & UXCustom Software DevelopmentMobile App DevelopmentStrategy & InnovationTechnology & EngineeringDevOps & CloudDigital Strategy Consulting

Selected Work

Minnesota Lottery — AI Alt Text for Accessibility

Minnesota Lottery — AI Alt Text for Accessibility

Minnesota Lottery

Clockwork leveraged AI to address over 7,800 missing alt-text descriptions on the Minnesota Lottery CraftCMS site in three weeks, closing a compliance gap that manual remediation could not scale.

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Häagen-Dazs — Automated Franchise Metric Reporting

Häagen-Dazs — Automated Franchise Metric Reporting

Häagen-Dazs

Clockwork replaced manual spreadsheet reporting for Häagen-Dazs franchise owners with an automated system that consolidates store-performance metrics from multiple data sources.

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Clearfield — Strategic Workshop & Conceptual Prototyping

Clearfield — Strategic Workshop & Conceptual Prototyping

Clearfield

Clockwork ran collaborative scoping workshops and design sprints to help Clearfield modernize a paper-based field process into a scalable digital experience for telecommunications operations.

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Reviews from Google

4.5/5 (20)
5/5· 2 years ago

They have just about everything.

5/5· 6 years ago

I wish the building were orange.

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