Clemons Wright™ is the operator-grade alternative to MBB. The founder runs seven operating companies across five industries, has filed pro se across the California court system top to bottom, and ships the software his clients run on. One way in: a $500, thirty-day Operating Risk Assessment — then a monthly price agreed to your focus. Clients are never named.
For creator-led brands, entertainment businesses, and founder-operators with revenue to protect and room to grow.
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.
MBB still owns enterprise strategy. It no longer owns the operator. The center of gravity has moved to founders, family-company principals, creator-led brands, and middle-market private capital — buyers who need fast, productized, AI-native, implementation-heavy advisory at five-figure entry pricing, not a twelve-month transformation at six figures. Clemons Wright is built exactly for that gap. Six concrete reasons it exists:
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 operating redesign, 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 companies 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.
Pro se filing experience across the California state court system top to bottom — Superior Court, Court of Appeal, California Supreme Court (highest filing) — plus C.D. Cal. and the Ninth Circuit. Trial-court wins and appellate denials both on the public record. 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.
The current calendar is three active matters: a state court trial (LASC), a Ninth Circuit RICO appeal, and a federal civil-rights lawsuit in C.D. Cal. (San Bernardino). Everything else on the record below has been decided at the level cited. Dustin has filed pro se across the California state court system top to bottom; some filings produced wins, some were denied. Both are listed because honesty is the credibility currency at this firm.
| Date | Outcome / Filing | Court |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-30 | BNSF anti-SLAPP motion DENIED to the defense (LASC 25STCV11123) | LASC — trial |
| 2025-10-23 | Preliminary Injunction GRANTED (LASC 25STCV11123) | LASC — trial |
| 2026-05-01 | Motion to Withdraw Deemed Admissions GRANTED (LASC 25STCV11123) | LASC — trial |
| 2025-07-24 | Petition for Writ of Mandate denied (B347751) | Cal. Court of Appeal — 2d Dist. |
| 2025-10-02 | Petition for Writ of Mandate denied (B349200) | Cal. Court of Appeal — 2d Dist. |
| 2025-12-09 / 2026-02-17 | Ninth Circuit Opening + Reply briefs filed pro se — fully briefed, pending | 9th Cir. 25-6944 |
| Filed | Petition for Review — pro se (highest filing on record) | California Supreme Court |
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.
The engagement has one initial price — $500 for a 30-day Operating Risk Assessment — then a monthly price agreed to your focus. Built by the founder who also ships Agentic, Data & Source — the live access-to-justice platform — and runs seven operating companies.
Thirty days of founder-led immersion — documents, numbers, the meetings that matter, the exposure nobody has mapped. At the end: a written picture of where the water is, and a proposed monthly engagement priced to the focus it surfaced. Monthly can begin before or after day 30. No auto-renewal.
Confidential by default. Your strategy is nobody’s business but yours. Clients are never named — no logos on this site, no case studies with identifying detail, no testimonials that could place you. The firm does not confirm or deny who it works with, and a mutual NDA is available before the assessment begins. Confidentiality by policy and by contract; not legal privilege — Clemons Wright is not a law firm.
Clemons Wright is a premium management-consulting and risk-management firm built for founder-operators, family-company principals, public-facing operators, and private-capital clients who are not well served by the MBB tier. Six service lines: management consulting, risk management with litigation posture, AI operations and governance, monetization and audience architecture, reputation and compliance governance, and counsel diligence with licensed-professional oversight.
The MBB tier is built for large enterprises, large investors, and institutional leaders. Clemons Wright is operator-led (not analyst-led), productized with fixed-fee packaging where possible, implementation-heavy with live dashboards instead of slide decks, and sized for the founder-operator and middle-market segment MBB does not actively pursue. One initial price: $500 for a 30-day founder-led Operating Risk Assessment, then a monthly price agreed to your focus.
Dustin L. Clemons is the founder of Clemons Wright. He is a multi-industry founder-operator currently running seven companies across hedge funds, technology, entertainment, EdTech, consumer goods, and applied AI. He is also an active pro se litigant with three active matters as of mid-2026: a state court trial (LASC 25STCV11123), a Ninth Circuit RICO appeal (9th Cir. 25-6944), and a federal civil-rights lawsuit in C.D. Cal. (5:25-cv-03000, San Bernardino). His decided history spans every level of the California state court system, from Los Angeles Superior Court through the California Court of Appeal up to the California Supreme Court (his highest filing on record), plus federal trial court. Trial-court motion wins on the record (anti-SLAPP denied to the defense, preliminary injunction granted). Two California Court of Appeal writ petitions denied, listed honestly. Education: M.S. Innovation & Entrepreneurship and B.S. Entertainment Business, Full Sail University.
No. Clemons Wright is a management-consulting and risk-advisory firm. It is explicitly not a law firm, accounting firm, registered investment adviser, engineering firm, architecture firm, real-estate brokerage, or licensed-trade contractor. Communications are not privileged. The firm defers to licensed professionals where the law requires and provides post-retention oversight to make sure the licensed pro is doing the work the client paid for.
AEGIS is Clemons Wright's proprietary document risk-scoring engine, the same system the founder uses on his own active matters. Upload a single PDF (court document, demand letter, term sheet, engagement letter, contract draft) and within 24 hours AEGIS returns a six-dimension risk profile across procedural exposure, substantive merit, evidentiary support, deadline risk, opposing-party posture, and jurisdictional fit — plus a similarity score against more than 1,300 indexed federal filings. Software-only, no human review. Source PDF auto-deleted within 24 hours.
One way in: the $500 Operating Risk Assessment — thirty days of Dustin L. Clemons personally inside the business. Pay on the engage page (secure PayPal checkout) or send a note through the contact form; after the assessment, a monthly price is agreed to your focus. See https://clemonswright.com/engage/.
One initial price: $500 for the first 30 days — the Operating Risk Assessment — where Dustin L. Clemons personally goes inside the business. After the assessment, a monthly price is agreed based on the focus it surfaced. The monthly engagement can begin before the 30 days are over or after, depending on focus. No auto-renewal, no obligation to continue.
Yes, by firm policy and by contract. Clients are never named — no logos, no case studies with identifying detail, no testimonials that could place you. The firm does not confirm or deny the existence of any engagement, and a mutual NDA is available before work begins. This is confidentiality, not legal privilege: Clemons Wright is not a law firm, and communications can be subject to subpoena.
Call the Risk Management line at 1 (800) 237-4899. It is founder-led and by appointment: you reach Dustin L. Clemons directly, not an intake desk. You can also send a note through the contact form or start the $500 Operating Risk Assessment on the engage page. Clients are never named.
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.
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Founder-led, by appointment. You reach Dustin L. Clemons directly — not an intake desk. Clients are never named.