During the 2004 Christmas holidays, one of the founding members of Cleverlance, Jakub Dosoudil (27 years old at the time), embarked on a trip to Thailand with his girlfriend Michaela Beránková (25 years old at the time, also working for Cleverlance). Both of them tragically lost their lives and became one of the Czech victims of the 2004 Earthquake in the Indian Ocean, which created massive tsunami waves and killed almost 230 000 people. The rest of the employees and owners of Cleverlance were actively trying to find the couple along with the families, after Dosoudil and Beránková have been reported missing. Their bodies were found and identified in 2005. The deaths of Dosoudil and Beránková were a huge loss for the company and created a very chaotic situation for the company overall.