About
The firm
Built to carry complex projects through local decisions.
ClearPath Approval Group was founded to give developers of data centers and other major infrastructure a single, accountable partner for the local approval process: strategy, public affairs, community engagement and the field capacity to carry it out. The firm is new. The operating experience behind it is not.
The country is building data centers, transmission lines and plants at a pace not seen in decades. Each one still has to be explained to its neighbors.
Most communities hear about a project late and secondhand. Most engagement programs are long on messaging and short on people who knock on doors and listen. ClearPath is built to do both: plan the engagement, and carry it out with trained, supervised teams whose work can be verified.
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Where we come from
Built on a national field operation.
From Lone Mountain Strategies
ClearPath’s founders built and operated Lone Mountain Strategies, a national field operations business. Through political campaigns, that team has knocked on more than 3 million doors. Campaigns are complex: many stakeholders, hard deadlines, public scrutiny and a single day when it all counts. A local approval works the same way. These figures describe Lone Mountain Strategies’ and the team’s prior work, not ClearPath client engagements.
From door-to-door sales
Our people also come from door-to-door sales, where they sell solar and fiber installations worth thousands of dollars, one household at a time. That same skill carries over to a data center: explaining the project clearly, answering hard questions honestly and asking residents for their support, always as identified representatives of the project.
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How we are organized
One accountable team, specialists where needed.
ClearPath leads strategy, public affairs, community engagement and field operations. Where a project requires licensed or specialized professionals, such as land-use counsel, engineers, environmental scientists or economists, they join the engagement through partner agreements and are identified to the client. Our ambition is a firm with senior specialists in-house across every discipline an approval requires. We are building that team deliberately, and on every engagement we tell clients exactly who is doing the work.