Cleartelligence.

Most organizations are not short on data. They are short on trust in it. Numbers live in a dozen systems, dashboards disagree with each other, and the people who need answers spend their days reconciling spreadsheets instead of making decisions. Cleartelligence, founded in 2011 by managing partners Joe Marino and Ron Keler, built its practice around that specific gap - the distance between having data and being able to rely on it.

The firm describes itself as an AI-first data and analytics consultancy. In practice, that means it works across the full journey: designing data strategy, building the pipelines and warehouses that move information, layering analytics and visualization on top, and - increasingly - applying artificial intelligence once the underlying data is clean and governed. Its own shorthand is a tagline printed across its site: "When you trust your data, everything is possible."

Headquartered at 275 Grove Street in Newton, Massachusetts, just outside Boston, Cleartelligence serves mid-market and enterprise clients. Its work spans six sectors - financial services, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, retail, technology, and the public sector - along with private equity portfolio companies, a segment it has leaned into as its own ownership has shifted toward private capital.

The modern data landscape is crowded with platforms, each promising to be the last one a company will ever need. Cleartelligence's answer is to hold partner status across several of them at once - a Select Snowflake Partner, a Databricks partner, and a Salesforce Tableau Premier Partner, with Qlik expertise added through acquisition. That breadth lets it stay honest about which tool fits a given problem rather than steering every client toward the same stack.

Its second differentiator is sequencing. Cleartelligence leads with data quality and governance before touching AI - an unglamorous order of operations, but one that reflects a hard truth about analytics projects: they tend to fail on data plumbing, not algorithms. The firm's four service pillars are arranged so that strategy and engineering come first, and the flashier AI work rests on a foundation that can actually support it.

Third is scale on a boutique frame. With roughly 110 people, Cleartelligence is small enough to stay hands-on, but its 2022 private equity backing and 2025 India delivery center give it a growth engine larger than its headcount suggests. It competes with firms like Slalom, Analytics8, phData and InterWorks - and increasingly positions itself as an independent alternative to the services arms of the platform vendors themselves.

Cleartelligence runs a professional-services model: project-based and retained engagements across data engineering, analytics, AI and strategy, aligned with its technology partners' platforms. Independent estimates place annual revenue near $21 million with a team of roughly 110.

What makes the trajectory notable is the buy-and-build strategy. Since Align Capital Partners recapitalized the firm in December 2022, Cleartelligence has pursued add-on acquisitions - Winter Sun and Bardess Group within a single 2024 - to expand capabilities its clients kept asking for, from digital transformation and customer experience to deep Qlik expertise. The 2025 Hyderabad center adds a global delivery layer to support that growth.