Cluepath Beta

Plan the puzzles. Plan the wiring. In one place.

Cluepath is a planning tool for escape room and haunt designers and builders. Map how your game flows, then plan the hardware that runs it: the controllers, the sensors and outputs, and where each one is wired.

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Free during the beta. Open to designers and builders in the United States.

The problem

You design the flow on a whiteboard, track props in a spreadsheet, and work out the controller wiring on paper, and none of it stays in step when a puzzle changes. Cluepath keeps the game and the build in the same plan.

What you can do today

Map the game

Lay out puzzles on a canvas and connect what unlocks what. Group them into rooms and zones, add story beats, and attach hint ladders with timing on the game clock.

Track every puzzle

Status from idea to installed, estimated solve time, difficulty and notes, so the whole team sees where each puzzle stands.

Describe your controllers

A library of controller profiles (PLCs with their I/O cards, boards like ESP32 and Arduino, networked I/O) and a step-by-step wizard to add your own from the datasheet.

It saves as you go

And if two people edit the same thing, nobody's work is silently overwritten.

Coming during the beta

  • Controllers and devices on the canvas: wire each sensor and output to the controller that runs it.
  • The I/O solver: from your game, work out how many I/O cards a controller needs and give every sensor and output its address (for example "Sensor 15 → 1.1.2.12"), without moving anything you've pinned.
  • Build documents: a bill of materials, an I/O table and a build packet.

Who's building it

I'm part of the team behind 13th Hour Haunted House and Escape Rooms. We've been designing and building rooms for over 10 years, and Cluepath started as the planning tool we wished we had for our own rooms. It's built for designers and builders who need to see every puzzle, prop and clue in one place.

Brandon Gersick

Apply for the beta

The beta is free and invite-only while we shape the tool with the people who'll use it. Tell us a little about what you build, and we'll be in touch.