1 in 3 active horizontal wells in North Dakota are under Clarity management. See the Clarity difference
Est. 2023 · North Dakota

Mineral management built where the minerals are.

Independent management, paying agent and reporting services for the families, trusts, and principals who hold North Dakota mineral and working interest portfolios.

1 in 3active horizontal wells in North Dakota are under Clarity management.

  • 7,516wells
  • 2,210spacing units
  • 16,580miles of lateral

How we work with clients

Three common engagements. All can be customized.

Full Service
We manage the portfolio.
End-to-end management of your mineral and working interest holdings. Operator checks reconciled, deductions audited, JIBs paid, AFEs tracked, year-end packages prepared. You receive a monthly report and a deposit. We handle everything in between.
  • Every operator, every well, every month
  • JIBs paid, AFEs tracked, cash calls reconciled
  • Deductions and taxes audited against the lease
  • Year-end packages ready for your CPA
What you receive
A monthly reconciliation packet, a year-end tax bundle, and a direct line to the principal who closed your books.
Reporting Only
You hold the reins. We report.
You keep handling operator payments and JIBs. We produce the monthly and year-end reporting your CPA, trustee, or counsel needs to see — clean income statements, deduction analysis, well-level performance, ready-to-file tax packages.
  • Monthly income reporting, by operator and by well
  • Deduction analysis against lease provisions
  • Well-level performance and trend reporting
  • Year-end packages your CPA can open and file
What you receive
A monthly reporting package built from your operator statements and division orders — without us touching the money.
Historical Audit
Any period. Every line.
Hand us your operator statements, division orders, and check stubs from any period — in any format, including PDFs, scans, and spreadsheets. We normalize them, reconcile every line, and show what was paid, line by line, against the lease and the division order.
  • Any format accepted — PDFs, scans, spreadsheets, paper
  • Every line reconciled, not just the totals
  • Missing months, volume variances, and payment variances documented
  • Findings organized by operator, well, and month
What you receive
A reconciled audit report by operator, well, and month — with every variance documented to its source.

What we do

A sample of our work. Engagements are scoped to fit.

Royalty reporting, analysis & auditing

Cross-referenced operator data, NDIC public records, and lease provisions. Every line on the check stub is read against the record.

Division orders·deductions·suspense

Working-interest management

JIB management, AFE tracking, monthly accounting, year-end packages. Cash calls reconciled against JIB postings.

JIBs·AFEs·LOE benchmarking

Lease & pipeline negotiations

More than a decade negotiating Bakken leases. Three primary lease tiers — we get you to the right one for your acreage.

Surface use·bonus·royalty rate

Lease compliance

Metering, calculations, deductions, retained acreage, pooling, ongoing-development clauses — read and tracked.

Compliance·pooling·retained acreage

Strategic title analysis

Title documents, deeds, historical records. Clear ownership picture for buy/sell, gifting, or estate planning.

Title·encumbrances·estate planning

Division-order analysis

Decimals checked against title and the unit. Most questions resolve with the right document and the right phone call.

DO review·decimals·suspense

The portal

A sample of what's at your fingertips. The full portal does more.

Client dashboardSample account
Net revenue, last 12 months
Operators paying, last 12 months
Producing wells

Monthly revenue trend

Owner net revenue, with the wells that paid each month.

  • Net revenue
  • Estimated remainder of this month
  • Producing wells

Price trends

Monthly average price paid, by product.

    Income audit

    Sample account, as the client portal shows it.

    On paper they look the same.

    Here's where the differences actually live.

    What it takes
    Bank / trust dept.
    Other mineral managers
    Clarity
    Who built the platform
    A vendor
    A vendor
    We did
    Who runs your account
    A trust officer on rotation
    A manager licensed on the vendor's platform
    The people who built the platform
    When data looks wrong
    The trust officer files a ticket
    The manager files a vendor ticket
    Walk down the hall
    Per-well deduction audit
    Rare; surface review only
    Whatever the platform surfaces
    Every check, every well, every month
    Whose interest is served
    Shareholders & operator deposits
    The vendor's roadmap
    Yours. We are not affiliated with any operator.
    The phone call is answered by
    Whoever's on rotation
    Your assigned manager
    The person managing your account

    The same people who do the work answer the phone.

    Adam Natwick — co-founder of Clarity Consulting Group
    Founding CEO

    Adam Natwick

    Adam leads strategy and operations at Clarity and is the firm's primary point of contact for ownership and account-level decisions across royalty and working-interest accounts. He's a North Dakota mineral owner himself, with positions in the Bakken. Clarity exists because he and Ross couldn't find a firm that managed minerals the way they wanted their own handled.

    Ross Perleberg — co-founder of Clarity Consulting Group
    Founding Managing Director

    Ross Perleberg

    Ross leads day-to-day client work — revenue management, JIB processing, AFE elections — and the technology stack behind the Clarity Portal. Like Adam, he holds both royalty and working-interest positions in the Bakken. The portal began as the system the two of them wanted to use on their own accounts; once it existed, it became obvious other owners would want the same view.

    A 20-minute call. No pitch.

    For North Dakota mineral and working-interest owners — tell us what you own and what's been frustrating. We'll tell you whether we can help, and if we can't, who probably can.

    Phone
    (701) 575-7010
    Email
    info@claritycg.net
    Mailing
    Clarity Consulting Group
    PO Box 9356
    Fargo, ND 58106