Mac Clemmens speaking on stage at a special districts conference.

Sacramento, California

Mac Clemmens

Entrepreneur · Speaker · Mentor · Accessibility Advocate · Investor

Co-founder and chief executive of Streamline, which builds the software that thousands of local agencies run on, and DocAccess, which turns the public record into something everyone can actually read.

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Title card for the SightTech Global session: Access for All, how DocAccess advances digital equity in the public sector.

Talk · SightTech Global

Introducing DocAccess, and the problem of the unreadable PDF

Public agencies publish millions of PDFs that a screen reader cannot make sense of, and remediating them by hand is slow enough that most never get fixed. DocAccess reads a document's structure and intent instead, and produces a WCAG-compliant HTML version that keeps the original meaning intact.

The session reached an audience of 80,000 worldwide. Mac presented alongside Shawn Jordison of The Accessibility Guy and Carter Temm of QualityLogic.

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Mac Clemmens cutting a red ribbon with oversized scissors at the opening of the Streamline office, surrounded by a cheering team.

Essay · UC Davis Graduate School of Management · March 2025

Building an operating system for democracy

Special districts are the most local form of government there is, running water, fire protection and transit, and most of them had no real tools for communicating with the people they serve. On why Streamline was built as a business rather than a nonprofit: a company can take a large risk and then sustain it long enough to matter.

That is what made it possible to build accessibility into the platform in 2018, ahead of the requirement, so that every site it powers meets or exceeds ADA standards. Streamline now serves 2,300 customers across 41 states.

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About

Mac Clemmens co-founded Streamline in Sacramento to give the smallest units of American government the tools that everyone else already had. Before that he built Digital Deployment from a dorm room into a multimillion-dollar agency working with institutions and local government.

He holds an MBA from the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, where he was the first recipient of the Rising Star Award, and has served on the boards of EO Sacramento, Stanford Sierra Youth and Families and the CSU Monterey Bay Foundation. He chaired the 49th Cap-to-Cap program, taking 350 regional leaders to Washington.

Most of his attention now goes to accessibility: the unglamorous work of making sure that a public notice, a budget or an agenda can be read by the person it concerns, whether or not they can see it.