Meet the Founder
Claudia Schleyer
Founder, PathRunner Co. · Houston, TX
For over 30 years, I've worked as a movement educator — with collegiate athletes, children with neurological challenges, older adults rebuilding after surgery. No matter who I was working with, the approach was always the same: meet people where they are, remove the obstacles, and let momentum do the work. I didn't know it at the time, but that principle would eventually shape everything I build.
The first app started with a question I couldn't shake. My spouse is a craft beer enthusiast, so I've spent plenty of time in taprooms — and I started wondering how these small breweries actually survive. They pour incredible beer, but how do they turn a curious first-timer into a regular? How do they know when a loyal customer is slipping away? And how do they fill those rooms that sit half-empty on weeknights — without hiring a marketing team they can't afford? I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I built BrewStreak — a loyalty app designed around one insight: people don't want to lose what they've built. Give them a reason to start, and momentum does the rest.
The second app started closer to home. My parents were getting older, and my brothers and I — spread across the country — faced the reality of clearing out a house filled with a lifetime of memories. I started with just the books and found myself buried in searches trying to find someone who'd even take them. Then came the harder question: how do you decide who gets what among family when nobody's in the same city? I couldn't find a single tool that handled both problems, so I built SnapClearout — a simplified workflow that helps families sort, distribute, and move forward without the drama.
I keep finding these problems — processes that are harder than they should be, where a clear, focused tool would make all the difference.
That's what PathRunner Co is. I'm a solo founder, which means I'm the one answering your emails, fixing the bugs, and actually using what I build. This isn't a startup chasing scale. It's a small company making useful things — built from personal experience, not a boardroom.
People ask about the name. It comes from the roadrunner.
A roadrunner can fly. Most people don't know that. But it stays on the ground by choice. It could go higher, cover more distance, take the easier route. Instead it runs. Straight through brush and rock and open desert. It clears its own path because no one cleared one for it.
It doesn't flock. It figures things out alone. And it's obsessively curious. It'll walk right up to something it's never seen before just to understand how it works. Not because it has to. Because it can't help it.
It's built for terrain that other birds avoid. Dry, harsh, overlooked ground where most creatures don't bother going. The roadrunner doesn't just survive there. It thrives.
And if you ever look at its footprints, you can't tell which direction it was heading. Two toes forward, two toes back. It doesn't matter where it came from. What matters is that it's still moving.
That's the whole company in one bird.