North Dakota Mineral and Working Interest Management

The platform was built so this could be the work.

We are not a bank. We are not a trust company. We are a North Dakota mineral management firm that runs the entire operating layer for our clients — royalty owners and working-interest owners alike.

For 15+ years we've focused on a single basin. That focus is why we know which JIB charges look wrong on sight, why we recognize a division-order error before it costs you money, and why operators take our calls seriously.

We're not generalists playing landman on the side. We're an independent firm with in-house energy expertise — and we treat clients as partners, not accounts.

$1.15M

Net revenue audited

Single account, single month — representative of the volume we reconcile across the operator panel.

$292K

Deductions identified

Same statement, same month. The line items operators routinely take that we routinely catch.

2,274

Wells in active client coverage

Tracked daily — production, deductions, status, regulatory filings — across the full Williston Basin.

$974K

AFE balance reconciled

Active drilling program, working-interest accounts. Cash calls reconciled against actual JIB postings.

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 tell you what you were paid versus what you were owed.

Any format accepted — PDFs, scans, spreadsheets, paper
Every line reconciled, not just the totals
Underpayments, missing months, and short volumes surfaced
Recovery pursued where warranted

What you receive

A reconciled audit report by operator, well, and month — with flagged discrepancies and a recommendation on which are worth pursuing.

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. We catch what the operator's check stub hides.

Division orders·deductions·suspense

Working-interest management

JIB management, AFE tracking, monthly accounting, year-end packages. Cash-call enforcement so you don't get double-billed.

JIBs·AFEs·LOE benchmarking

Lease & pipeline negotiations

15+ years 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, tracked, enforced.

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

Disputes & division-order analysis

We negotiate hard before we litigate. Most disputes resolve with the right document and the right phone call.

Mediation·DO review·underpayments

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

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 don't take operator money.

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.

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.

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

info@claritycg.net

Mailing

Clarity Consulting Group
PO Box 9356
Fargo, ND 58106