Clemons Wright™ is the firm operators hire when the answer cannot wait, the stakes are real, and the partner has to have actually done the work. Built and led by Dustin L. Clemons — a serial founder with companies running across hedge funds, technology, entertainment, EdTech, and consumer goods, who is right now actively litigating his own federal cases pro se and winning motion practice on the record. Premium-grade thinking, productized packaging, implementation-heavy delivery, and the most uncommon thing in consulting: a partner who has been in the deep water himself — and has shipped the platforms and software that bring his clients to shore.
The firm's promise
Clemons Wright is for leaders carrying real weight — capital pressure, AI chaos, monetization confusion, reputation exposure, lean-team strain, or a dispute that is one filing away from becoming a case. We help you find ground.
The premium tier of management consulting — known in the trade as MBB — still defines enterprise strategy, transformation, and private-capital advisory. But the center of gravity has moved. A new class of operator needs something different: faster, more productized, AI-native, and willing to sit in the chair with them. Clemons Wright was built for exactly that gap.
The biggest firms market to large enterprises and institutional investors. Founder-operators with lean teams, creator-led brands, and public-facing managers running personality-driven businesses are left to assemble consulting from boutiques, agencies, and influencers. We close that gap.
Many modern buyers do not need a multi-year transformation. They need a six-week monetization sprint, an AI workflow redesign, a reputation governance system, or a counsel-diligence pass — productized, fixed-fee, measurable weekly. Slide-factory consulting cannot ship that quickly.
It is no longer enough to say "deploy AI." Public-facing operators need workflow governance, IP and rights controls, brand-safety boundaries, and human-in-the-loop escalation — sized for a 20-person team, not a Fortune 500 transformation office. We build that operating system.
Audience ownership, sponsorship pricing, licensing, fan-data infrastructure, reputation volatility — these belong on the balance sheet of any creator-led business. Premium consulting rarely leads with them. Clemons Wright treats them as core, not adjacent.
Modern founders are managing brand, finance, operations, legal coordination, data, AI systems, and partnerships simultaneously. Premium consulting still treats those as separate practices. We work as a single command center across all of them.
Most executive risk advisory waits until a complaint is filed. We map the disputes, threats, and unresolved tensions that could become litigation — and coach the operating posture that keeps them from becoming one. We have lived it firsthand.
Source: the firm's published 2026 industry gap analysis, The MBB Gap — what premium consulting is still missing in 2026.
Each line is anchored in something Dustin L. Clemons has actually done — built a company, deployed real capital, governed AI in a regulated category, run a public-facing brand, or won motion practice on the record. The packaging is fixed-fee where possible, custom where the engagement demands it.
Operating advice for founders and executives in the messy middle. Org structure, capital strategy, build-vs-buy, product positioning, crisis communication, and the executive cadence that turns a hard quarter into a survivable one.
Map disputes before they become cases. Score document risk before counsel ever sees it. Build a twelve-month litigation-readiness plan that does not require panic. Coach the executive on what to say and not say when contact begins.
Workflow design, repurposing systems, deal automation, analytics copilots, customer support, and approval layers for high-risk publishing. Plus the governance overlay — IP, accuracy, privacy, brand tone — that keeps fast-moving teams from burning their reputation in a week.
What should this business actually sell, at what margin, through which channel, with what dependency risk? Sponsorship pricing, licensing, subscriptions, owned products, first-party data, attribution — engineered as a stack, not a list of tactics.
For public-facing operators, reputation is an asset on the balance sheet even if accounting does not show it that way. Crisis playbooks, disclosure compliance, sponsorship standards, impersonation and deepfake response, platform-policy monitoring.
You will choose your own attorney, CPA, financial advisor, engineer, architect, broker, or contractor. We help you choose well — and then we sit beside you while they work. Pre-retention diligence, engagement-letter reads, interview prep, fit assessment, and ongoing watchdog support. No closed panel; no referral fees from any licensed pro.
The single fact that separates this firm from every other premium advisor at this price point is this: Dustin L. Clemons is in the arena right now. Actively litigating his own federal cases pro se with wins on the record. Actively running multiple operating companies across five industries. Actively shipping production software that his own clients run on. Every service Clemons Wright sells is informed by what he has actually had to do in front of a judge, in front of an investor, in front of a payroll, or in front of a public audience — this quarter.
Three things make this firm impossible to replicate:
"Disciplined risk management and bold strategic vision are not opposites — they are partners." — Dustin L. Clemons
Most consultants specialize. Dustin has operated. Across the seven categories below — every one of which Clemons Wright now serves clients in — he is not advising from books or case studies. He is advising from the chair. Pattern recognition across industries is the most valuable thing a non-specialist can bring to a specialist's problem. It is what Clemons Wright is built on.
Chief Investment Officer and Founder of Black Crystalline. Asset analysis, capital allocation, portfolio risk, and emerging-company growth capital — from the allocator's chair.
CEO and Founder of WareActics Corporation. Product strategy, platform design, signed-and-notarized desktop distribution, and shipped AI platforms in production.
President and Founder of Been Raw Catalogs — sixteen-plus years operating in one of the most relationship-driven, IP-intensive industries in the world.
COO and Co-Founder of Baby Learn Online. iOS product, App Store compliance, and the unique trust posture required for a child-facing audience.
Founder and Pitmaster of Mojave 66. Unit economics, supply chain, licensing, and the relentless ground game of consumer-brand building.
Founder and CEO of Agentic Agentic Enterprises — a portfolio of four shipped AI platforms across legal access, private messaging, ancestry intelligence, and consultation commerce.
Plaintiff in four federal-court matters and one state matter. Wins on the record. Ninth Circuit fully briefed pro se. The litigation-room discipline he brings to client risk work.
Consulting and marketing firms typically do not require a general "consultant license." But because we advise on critical business functions, we routinely meet legal boundaries where specific regulated tasks must be performed by a licensed professional. Clemons Wright is candid about those lines — and the firm's most underrated superpower lives right beside them.
Operating model, capital strategy, AI workflows, monetization, reputation, risk, dispute posture, and the operating cadence that holds it together — across 16+ years of multi-industry operator experience. If you have a business question, he is built to answer it.
Dustin is not a licensed attorney, CPA, Professional Engineer, Registered Architect, securities-licensed financial advisor, real-estate broker, or licensed tradesperson. When the law requires one of those professionals, he tells you — and then he sits beside you while they work.
The watchdog superpower. The single most expensive mistake a non-licensed client makes is hiring a licensed professional and then losing the operator's view of whether the work is being done well. Bills run; filings get deferred; audits get vague; advisors steer clients into products that pay the advisor more than the client. Clemons Wright sits beside you while your licensed pros work — making sure you get what you are paying for. We receive no referral fees from any law firm, accounting firm, financial advisor, engineering firm, brokerage, or contractor. Our incentive is exactly aligned with yours.
These are docket-verified motion outcomes from Dustin's active matters. They are not the whole story of the cases. They are evidence of motion-practice competence in federal and state trial courts — which is the competence Clemons Wright transfers to clients.
| Date | Outcome | Matter |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-30 | BNSF anti-SLAPP motion DENIED (Cause 7 — Defamation) | LASC 25STCV11123 |
| 2025-10-23 | Preliminary Injunction GRANTED | LASC 25STCV11123 |
| 2026-05-01 | Motion to Withdraw Deemed Admissions GRANTED | LASC 25STCV11123 |
| 2026-02-17 | Ninth Circuit appeal fully briefed (Opening · Answer · Reply) — pro se | 9th Cir. 25-6944 |
| 2026-04-01 | Motion for Limited Remand on Rule 60(b) newly-discovered evidence filed | 9th Cir. 25-6944 |
See the full track record (operating wins + court outcomes + shipped systems) →
Clemons Wright runs on its own desktop operating system. CW Leaders Studio is the firm's proprietary command-center software — a free desktop app that records, sends, edits, hires, and runs five Foundation Agents in the same install. It is the standard operating environment every Clemons Wright client receives during a project engagement.
Studio is developed for Clemons Wright by Agentic Agentic Enterprises and distributed by WareActics Corporation under an Apple-certified developer identity — signed and notarized on every release. The whole product is shipped under a privacy-first architecture: transcription, on-screen text recognition, and scene detection happen privately on your own machine. Nothing uploads without your explicit action.
One license key, three machines, lifetime free tier. Teams and Enterprise tiers add the Telemetry Agent and consent-gated Overwatch Mirror.
Every Clemons Wright engagement begins with one of five paths. Founder-led sessions are operated by Dustin personally and ship through the same recorded, passcode-gated infrastructure that powers Agentic, Data & Source — the access-to-justice platform he built. Project and retainer engagements are scoped on a follow-up call.
A small-group conversation where the founder shares lived experience from his five active matters and five operating companies. Format: questions about his story, not yours.
The hot seat. The founder asks you the hard questions about your matter that you have not been asked yet. Coaching format — the conclusions originate with you.
Upload a court document, term sheet, demand letter, or contract draft. The AEGIS engine returns a six-dimension risk profile plus similarity score cross-referenced against 1,300+ indexed federal filings.
Most client work is bigger than a single session. A diagnostic sprint runs two to six weeks with live dashboards, monetization or workflow redesign, governance templates, operating cadences, and managed implementation. Retainer clients get a monthly seat-at-the-table advisor for litigation- adjacent decisions. Both are quoted on a 15-minute call.
Use this short form for a custom project, retainer inquiry, or a question we have not packaged into one of the doors above. We respond within one business day.
For the booking flow (Ask the Founder · Get Grilled · Document Risk Score), use /engage/ — those tiers ship through the recorded, passcode-gated ADS infrastructure with 7-year retention.
What this firm is not. Clemons Wright is a management-consulting and risk-advisory firm. It is not a law firm, accounting firm, registered investment adviser, engineering firm, architecture firm, real-estate brokerage, or licensed-trade contractor. Dustin L. Clemons is not a licensed attorney, CPA, PE, RA, securities-licensed advisor, broker, or licensed tradesperson. Nothing this firm produces is legal, tax, accounting, engineering, architectural, or investment advice. Nothing creates an attorney-client, CPA-client, or advisor-client relationship. Communications are not privileged and may be subpoenaed. If a matter requires a licensed professional in any category, hire one in your jurisdiction — we can help you choose well, and sit beside you while they work, but we cannot be one.