AI that lives on your servers. Not ours.
Most AI consultants hand you a strategy deck. We hand you a working AI application — running on your infrastructure, trained on your data, owned by your company. No vendor lock-in. No data leaving your walls. Yours in 90 days.
Trusted by companies across healthcare, finance, technology, and manufacturing
73%
of mid-market AI projects stall in pilot. The technology works. The strategy doesn't.
$4.6M
average annual cost of NOT having AI capabilities, measured in manual labor, missed opportunities, and competitive disadvantage.
6 months
the window before your industry's AI-native competitors make your current processes obsolete.
The Honest Comparison
See how Clareo compares to the alternatives you're probably already trying.
| Consultant | ChatGPT | Cloud AI Apps | Claude Code | Clareo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
What You Walk Away With | A polished report in 4–8 weeks | Suggestions you organize yourself | Dashboards you interpret | Raw code and terminal output | A step-by-step plan, ready to execute |
Your Time & Effort | Weeks of meetings and reviews | Hours of prompting and organizing | Weeks of setup and learning | Hours of coding and debugging | One conversation. We build the plan. |
Built for Your Business | Custom, after weeks of discovery | Generic unless you explain everything | Requires extensive setup to tailor | Powerful, but you drive the strategy | Learns your business in minutes |
Total Cost | $15K–100K+ per engagement | $20/mo + your time | $200–2K/mo + technical staff | $20/mo + developer skills required | Fraction of consulting. No time wasted. |
Risk if It Doesn’t Work | Large commitment, long timelines | Hours lost, no usable output | Monthly fees + vendor lock-in | Great tool, but you need to know how | See your plan before you commit |
A step-by-step plan, ready to execute
Consultant
ChatGPT
Cloud AI Apps
Claude Code
One conversation. We build the plan.
Consultant
ChatGPT
Cloud AI Apps
Claude Code
Learns your business in minutes
Consultant
ChatGPT
Cloud AI Apps
Claude Code
Fraction of consulting. No time wasted.
Consultant
ChatGPT
Cloud AI Apps
Claude Code
See your plan before you commit
Consultant
ChatGPT
Cloud AI Apps
Claude Code
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The Clareo Method: a proven four-phase approach built from the best patterns across elite consulting firms.
DISCOVER
Week 1-2
DESIGN
Week 3-4
DEPLOY
Week 5-8
SCALE
Ongoing
Not theoretical. Not experimental. Proven capabilities deployed across industries, organized into six domains.
Threat & Risk Intelligence
7 capabilities
Vulnerability assessment, threat monitoring, security posture analysis
Competitive & Market Intelligence
5 capabilities
Competitor tracking, market research, content analysis at scale
Strategic Clarity
5 capabilities
Decision frameworks, first principles analysis, portfolio strategy
Intelligent Operations
4 capabilities
Workflow automation, document processing, agent orchestration
Content & Brand Intelligence
4 capabilities
Visual content, social publishing, brand voice management
AI Ownership
5 capabilities
Private AI infrastructure, quality assurance, continuous improvement
60% faster
compliance documentation for a healthcare company using AI-powered report generation
$340K saved
annually by automating competitive intelligence gathering for a financial services firm
2 weeks
from zero AI capabilities to first production deployment for a 200-person tech company
The Enterprise AI Maturity Model — a framework for measuring your organization's AI readiness and charting a path forward.
Tier 1: Experimenting
AI Curious
Using ChatGPT ad hoc. No strategy. No infrastructure. Most companies are here.
Most companies are hereTier 2: Automating
AI Enabled
Specific processes automated. Some team training. Measurable but isolated impact.
Tier 3: Transforming
AI Native
AI embedded in operations. Internal AI Product Studio. Competitive moat established.
Clareo was founded by Nick O'Connor with a simple conviction: AI should make your team more capable, not more dependent on consultants.
“We don't just advise. We build.”
“Every capability we recommend, we've deployed.”
“We believe AI should make your team more capable, not more dependent on consultants.”
Built for the Middle
Not enterprise pricing. Not a free quiz. Purpose-built for 50-5,000 employees.
30 Proven Capabilities
A tested library mapped to real business problems, deployable in weeks.
Your Team Owns It
No consultant dependency. We build your AI infrastructure and train your people.
Our Vision
No one left behind by the tools that were supposed to set us free.
We believe AI is the most important technology in human history — not because of what it can do alone, but because of what it unlocks in us.
Somewhere right now, there is a nurse who could redesign patient intake if she had the tools. A small business owner who could automate the thing that is killing him, if someone showed him how. A twenty-year-old who thinks her career is already over, who does not yet know that the most powerful creative and analytical tools ever built are waiting for her, right now, for free.
Clareo exists because we refuse to accept a future where AI amplifies only the people who were already winning. We build AI into the hands of the people who actually do the work — their infrastructure, their data, their ownership — so that the human on the other side of every screen becomes the most capable version of themselves.
This is not about technology. This is about what humans become when nothing stands between their purpose and their power.
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