Breakthrough growth,
built with you.
We embed senior operators inside ambitious consumer businesses to build the infrastructure that turns potential into performance.
of high-growth companies cite operational complexity, not market size, as the main constraint on growth.
Emerging companies hit a point when ambition, instincts, and existing resources aren't enough to reach the next stage. Scaling sustainably and profitably require precision, experience, and a playbook for execution.
ClearEngine are the embedded operating partners that build the infrastructure for growth and transform potential into performance. Our clients emerge with a proven operating model, an aligned team already executing, and real traction driving the next stage of growth.
Built by operators.
Executed together.
We've built, scaled and exited consumer businesses. Now we do it alongside you.
We build integrated operating systems that actually work: aligning financial and performance management, growth strategy, team structure, and day-to-day execution into one clear engine your business can run on long after we're gone.
Operator-First
We embed directly into your business, stepping into executive roles to drive execution — not just advise.
Full-Stack Execution
One integrated plan across every function — with growth grounded in a clear financial and operating framework. Built to run, measure, and scale.
Founder-Focus
Senior operators who've built and scaled businesses, working with a focused client roster by design.
A senior SWAT team, embedded.
We embed a senior, cross-functional SWAT team inside your business as operators, not just advisors. We diagnose opportunities, set priorities, drive execution alongside your team, and build the capabilities needed to scale — with a focus on measurable results. When the system runs without us, we step back.
Audit
We plug into your systems and data and run our proprietary diagnostic to identify strategic priorities and build a roadmap for immediate improvements and long-term scale.
Optimize
We refine the operating model, sharpen goals, strengthen the team and capabilities, and build the tools, systems, and measurement infrastructure needed to scale.
Scale
We execute alongside you — filling key gaps, running priorities across key functions, and iterating on strategy based on real performance to find the unlocks that drive value and scale.
Transition
We hire and onboard key roles, expand systems, automations, and AI infrastructure, and return ownership to the team — phasing out gradually while remaining available in an advisory capacity.
A proven framework for outsized impact.
Operator First
We approach every engagement as operators — building what works in practice and operationalizing it so the team can run it.
Embedded Execution
We work inside the business, not on the sidelines — turning strategy into executable plans and running them alongside your team.
Growth with a CFO Lens
Growth decisions are grounded in real financial management — blending strategy, profitability, and day-to-day financial rigor.
Decision-Grade Analytics
We implement the data, metrics, tools, and systems that leadership actually uses to make decisions.
Partner-Powered
We plug in trusted partners, tools, and specialists that compound impact and accelerate results where they matter most.
Built to Outlast Us
We leave behind teams, systems, and momentum so the business keeps scaling long after we phase out.
When the business outgrows the system.
As companies evolve, the systems underneath stop fitting. These are the patterns that bring companies to us — and how we rebuild and refit for durable, profitable growth.
Growth stalls or becomes inefficient, with rising CAC and no clear path to profitable scale.
Rebuild the growth engine by refining strategy, diversifying channels, and building critical capabilities in-house to reduce CAC and regain control.
Economics lack clarity and it's unclear what can be spent, invested, or pulled back with confidence.
Restore financial clarity by building a real strategic and financial plan that ties growth, spend, margins, and cash flow together.
Leadership is stretched thin across too many priorities, without a clear operating cadence.
Refine the operating model by redesigning roles, people strategy, and performance management so priorities are clear and leadership is unblocked.
Revenue drivers are unclear, making it hard to distinguish what's actually working from what isn't.
Implement decision-grade analytics and AI so the team can clearly see what's driving results — and act on it.
The growth model no longer fits and it's unclear where the next unlock is or what to double down on.
Recalibrate the growth model across positioning, pricing, and business-model levers to define the next unlock.
We focus on the categories we know from the inside.
We've spent years building, scaling, and learning what actually works in the consumer sectors that matter most.
We work with ambitious consumer businesses
…that have outgrown the systems that drove early wins, and need the operating infrastructure to reach real scale.
Founder-led businesses that have outgrown their early engine
Fast-growing brands that need structure to match their momentum
Companies expanding into new channels, markets, or models
High-potential companies where stagnation or complexity is blocking profitable scale
Businesses where growth has outpaced systems, team, or financial clarity
When companies bring us in.
Every company's situation is different, but the inflection points that bring them to us tell a similar story.
Growth has stalled or gotten expensive, with no clear path to efficient scale
The team is stretched thin and decisions feel reactive instead of coordinated
Revenue is growing but profitability isn't following — and it's unclear where the margin is leaking
Specialists and agencies are executing in silos with no unified strategy or accountability
A capital raise, expansion, or major strategic move is on the horizon and the business isn't ready
Systems, team structure, or financial clarity haven't kept pace with the business
Founding Operating Partners
A track record of building, scaling, and exiting consumer businesses — now applied alongside yours.
As entrepreneurs, executives, and operators, we've lived every stage of building an early-stage business. Previously, we co-founded Snowe, a venture-backed, digitally-native brand that grew quickly, amassed awards for exceptional products and innovative shopping experiences, and was acquired in 2022. We created ClearEngine to unlock the clarity and growth critical to valuable businesses.
Rachel Cohen
Partner
Rachel specializes in unlocking value and expanding profitability for customer-centric companies as an operator and advisor. Before co-founding and scaling her own consumer brand, she led organizations across investment banking, hospitality operations, and real estate.
Andres Modak
Partner
Andres brings deep experience creating and growing innovative brands that last. Before co-founding and scaling his own brand, he spent over a decade in technology, consumer products, and consulting in global expansion strategy for multinationals, retail brands, and technology companies.
Ready to turn potential
into performance?
We take on a focused client roster by design. If your business is at an inflection point, let's have a conversation about what scaling sustainably and profitably looks like for you.