On July 4th, our family spent the day at Clearwater Beach, Florida , our daughter’s first time at the beach. While I dozed, a gust ripped a beach umbrella out of the sand down the shore. When it tumbled toward us, it flipped , auger first , heading straight for where my wife and baby daughter were sitting. I caught it out of the air.

I couldn’t shake how differently that moment could have ended. And somewhere in that reflection, the question changed from “why did this happen?” to “what am I supposed to do about it?” That question became Clawbrella: an umbrella that doesn’t just sit in the sand , it grabs it.

A year of engineering, prototypes, setbacks, prayer, and perseverance later, we’re ready to share it. We’re a husband and wife. We’re parents. We’re beachgoers. And we built Clawbrella so beach days stay what they’re supposed to be: