Clarity for better business
Strategic clarity and operating discipline delivered by people who have run a P&L and built the systems, not just advised on them.
Leadership without visibility stalls. Visibility without leadership never gets acted on.
ClearwaterIQ was built for one underserved segment of the market: founder-led small and midsize businesses where growth has outpaced management infrastructure. The owner who built something real is still the default decision-maker on questions the company can no longer afford to route through one person, and the data needed for confident calls is scattered across ERPs, spreadsheets, and institutional memory.
Most firms make you choose between strategy and dashboards, then outsource the technology underneath both. We built ClearwaterIQ to deliver all three inside one relationship: the leadership, the intelligence, and the engineering that makes everything durable and automatic.
Our WATER values
The second half of the ClearwaterIQ name. Where the CLEAR™ framework defines how we work, these values define who we are while we do it.
Win Together
Success is shared. Our clients' growth is our growth, and we don't win unless they do.
Accountability
Own the outcome. Full responsibility for every commitment, with no excuses and no passing the buck.
Trust
Earned every day through consistency, transparency, and follow-through, built into every interaction.
Execute Relentlessly
Strategy matters. Execution wins. Ideas only matter when translated into measurable action.
Responsive Leadership
Communicate. Engage. Deliver. Proactive, accessible, and dependable through every stage of an engagement.
The team
Bert R. Bolick, MBA
Bert has spent nearly three decades operating small and mid-sized businesses: as a CFO closing the books, a COO walking the floor, and a President/CEO negotiating the deal that would decide whether a company survived its next chapter. That operating depth, not facilitation credentials alone, is what ClearwaterIQ is built around.
He leads the firm's advisory and analytics practice: embedded executive leadership, financial performance, operational excellence, and the Executive Intelligence™ dashboards that put real numbers in front of real decisions.
Tyson Nichols
Tyson is a Senior DevOps Engineer whose craft was built the same way ClearwaterIQ was: in production, where things have to work every day. He has spent his career running AWS infrastructure and writing the Python and Ansible automation that quietly does work people used to do by hand, reliably, on schedule, and without being asked twice.
At ClearwaterIQ he leads the cloud and automation practice: architecting secure, cost-aware AWS environments, wiring together the systems a business already owns so an invoice, an order, or a shipment can trigger the next step on its own, and building the monitoring that catches problems before customers do. Bert finds the insight in your numbers; Tyson builds the machinery that acts on it.
Rooted in North Carolina
ClearwaterIQ is rooted in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and serves founder-led small and midsize businesses across the Southeast: manufacturing, distribution, construction, professional services, family enterprises, and private-equity portfolio companies, in person or remote, wherever the business is.
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