Clareo

What Clareo does

Clareo is a privately held, independent strategy consulting firm founded around 2005 and headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with an additional office in Chicago, Illinois. The firm advises global Fortune-500 level companies across three vertical sectors: mining and Mining Equipment, Technology and Services (METS), energy, and food — addressing challenges including rising mineral demand, energy transition, critical-minerals supply chains, decarbonization, and food innovation. Clareo delivers engagements through its proprietary FastPath® service methodology, which is paired with an extended Expert Network spanning business, government, academia, venture capital, and finance to assemble bespoke teams for each project. The firm is governed by a three-layer organizational structure (Board of Directors, Clareo Core Team, Expert Network) and operates a lean core team of 11-50 employees supplemented by external specialists.

Revenue is generated exclusively through professional services fees on project-based consulting engagements, workshops, and advisory work. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and appears to be quote-based and tailored to engagement scope. Go-to-market is direct enterprise field sales, supported by a content-led marketing approach centered on thought leadership (Insights blog, white papers, conference participation at events such as IMARC, OTC, Future Food-Tech, and Energy Future Forum), LinkedIn and Twitter presence, and referrals through an extensive industry network. Key strategic partnerships include Development Partner Institute, TWIN (The World Innovation Network), Rocky Mountain Institute, The NOURISH Movement, and CCIA, which extend Clareo's reach into mining development, energy innovation, food-as-medicine, and critical-minerals ecosystems across the Americas and Australia.

Name

Clareo

Legal name

Clareo

Website

https://clareo.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Chicago

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Strategy Consulting Services: Professional consulting services delivered through project-based engagements, working with global Fortune-500 level companies to build market-leading strategies and develop new businesses. Revenue is generated through consulting fees for strategy engagements, workshops, and advisory services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Clareo is a strategy consulting firm that helps global market leaders in the mining, energy, and food sectors accelerate growth and navigate transformation. Its primary offering is FastPath®, a proprietary consulting service that pairs senior partners and a curated Expert Network of 100+ industry veterans with clients to deliver board-ready strategy and execution support. Practice areas dedicated to mining, energy, and food verticals sit alongside FastPath® to provide sector-specific advisory services.

Product overview

Clareo is a strategy consulting firm that provides expert advisory services to global Fortune-500 level companies in the mining, energy, and food sectors. Their offering centers on the FastPath® proprietary methodology, which is delivered through a combination of their core consulting team and an extended expert network. They focus on building market-leading strategies and developing new businesses through collaborative approaches to complex challenges. Their services include strategy development, innovation consulting, and industry-specific advisory work across their three sector focus areas.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• FastPath® Clareo's flagship proprietary consulting engagement model that pairs senior partners and the Expert Network with clients to deliver board-ready strategy and execution support in compressed timelines. It is sold to global market leaders in mining, energy, and food sectors.
• Mining Strategy Consulting Sector-specific strategy consulting practice serving the mining industry, led by Clareo partners and supported by the Expert Network. Target buyers are global market leaders in mining seeking growth, transformation, and innovation advisory.
• Energy Strategy Consulting Sector-specific strategy consulting practice serving the energy industry, leveraging senior partner expertise and the Expert Network. Target buyers are global market leaders in energy seeking transformation and growth advisory.
• Food Strategy Consulting Sector-specific strategy consulting practice serving the food industry, leveraging senior partner expertise and the Expert Network. Target buyers are global market leaders in food seeking transformation and growth advisory.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Development Partner InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partnership focused on mining industry development and innovation. Peter Bryant serves as Board Chair of the Development Partner Institute, indicating a deep collaborative relationship.
• The Nourish MovementcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFood as medicine initiative partnership. Scott Bowman, Managing Director at Clareo, is co-founder of The NOURISH Movement, indicating strong strategic alignment.
• TWIN (The World Innovation Network)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGlobal innovation network partnership bringing together leaders invested in the future of the energy sector. Clareo team members actively participate in TWIN Global events and initiatives.
• Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEnergy transition and sustainability focused partnership with Rocky Mountain Institute, a clean energy think tank.
• AvenueminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership shown in logos section, relationship details not extensively documented on website.
• Out ThinkerminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership shown in logos section, relationship details not extensively documented on website.
• CCIA (Critical Minerals Institute Australia)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership shown in logos section, focused on critical minerals collaboration in Australia.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Roland Berger: Global strategy consultancy with strong natural resources and energy practices. Closely comparable to Clareo as a senior-led, sector-specialized competitor serving large multinational resource companies.
• Arthur D. Little: Global strategy consulting firm with long-standing practices in energy, utilities, chemicals, and natural resources. Closest peer in terms of senior-led, sector-specialized strategy work at the same buyer set as Clareo.
• Kearney: Global management consulting firm with deep natural resources, energy, and consumer industries practices. Directly competes with Clareo on strategy and innovation engagements for large multinational resource and food companies.
• Wood Mackenzie: Specialized research and consulting firm focused on energy, metals, and mining. Highly comparable to Clareo's mining and energy strategy work, though Wood Mackenzie is more data and research-led versus Clareo's innovation-led engagement model.
• Hatch: Global engineering and project management consultancy with major mining and energy practices. Overlaps with Clareo on strategic advisory for mining majors and METS firms, particularly around energy transition and operational transformation.

Broad incumbents

• Bain & Company: Top-tier global strategy firm with dedicated natural resources, energy, and consumer/food practices. Competes with Clareo for senior-led strategy mandates at large enterprise clients across the same three verticals.
• EY-Parthenon: Strategy arm of EY with dedicated energy, mining, and consumer products practices. Competes with Clareo for enterprise strategy mandates and benefits from Big 4 cross-sell into the same Fortune 500 buyer base.
• Boston Consulting Group: Global strategy consultancy with significant mining, metals, energy, and food industry teams. Overlaps with Clareo on innovation and corporate strategy work for Fortune 500 resource and consumer clients.
• McKinsey & Company: Global management consulting giant with deep mining, metals, energy, and agriculture practices serving many of the same Fortune 500 buyers Clareo targets. Overlaps directly on strategy and innovation advisory but at much larger scale and broader sector coverage.

Emerging players

• S&P Global Commodity Insights: Energy, metals, and agriculture research and advisory business within S&P Global. Comparable to Clareo in serving mining and energy strategy buyers, with stronger data and benchmarking assets and broader sector coverage.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/clareopartners
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/clareo-partners
• Facebookfacebook.com/ClareoPartners

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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