ClearCOGS
Supply Chain AI · Predictive Analytics
$5.8Mtotal raised · 3 rounds on record
$3.8Mlatest round · Seed · Apr 2025 · 19 mo ago
11team · US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025
2021founded
Overview
ClearCOGS turns your POS data into tomorrow's prep, ordering, and labor plan. AI demand forecasting for restaurants, live in about three weeks.
Key facts
These are the key facts about ClearCOGS on Alion as of Nov 13, 2026. ClearCOGS is headquartered in Collegeville, United States. It was founded in 2021. It has raised $5.8M in 3 funding rounds. The latest round is Seed of $3.8M, announced in 2025.
- Headquarters
- Collegeville, United StatesAlion company profile, updated Oct 5, 2026
- Founded
- 2021Alion company profile, updated Oct 5, 2026
- Employees
- 1-10Alion company profile, an estimated range
- Total raised
- $5.8MSum of 3 equity rounds Alion knows
- Latest round
- Seed · $3.8M · Apr 10, 2025Press report · qsrmagazine.com
Official records
Funding and backers
Total raised
$5.8M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$3.8M
Seed · Apr 2025 · 19 mo ago
Team
11
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025
The money's age
Due for its next round
19 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jan 12
Launched ClearCOGS Launches Industry's First "Restaurant Wrapped" Delivering Year-End Operational Insights to Hospitality Operators · newswire.com
Apr 10, 2025
Raised a round Seed $3.8M
Jul 27, 2022
Raised a round Convertible Note $125k · SEC Form D
2021
Founded
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | Apr 2025 | $3.8M | — | qsrmagazine.com |
| Venture round | Mar 2025 | $1.9M | — | SEC Form D |
| Convertible Note | Jul 2022 | $125k | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | ClearCOGS Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Matthew WamplerExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Osayanmo OsarenkhoeExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Executive Officer, Director
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News
The Last Batch Decides Your Waste
By Matt Wampler, CEO of ClearCOGS Quick Answer: The final batch of the day should be sized to the demand remaining in the hours you have left, not to the comfort of the person making it. Most kitchens have a reasonable morning number and no number at all
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Report
Ordering to Be Safe Is Still a Guess
By Matt Wampler, CEO of ClearCOGS Somewhere in most restaurant groups this month, a leader will open a purchasing report, see a line item that looks absurd, and ask about it. The answer will be a national food holiday. Burger day, taco day, doughnut day,
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Setting It Up Was Never the Hard Part
By Matt Wampler, CEO of ClearCOGS Plenty of restaurant groups have set up an inventory and recipe system properly. A surprising number have done it twice. The pattern is consistent enough to describe without embellishment. Recipes entered, items mapped, v
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Three a Day Is Harder to Forecast Than Three Hundred
By Matt Wampler, CEO of ClearCOGS An operator running a growing group in a smaller market described her problem to me in one sentence that I thought was unusually precise. She said her stores get plenty of tickets, just not as many as the brand's larger m
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Your Sales History Isn't Your Demand History
By Matt Wampler, CEO of ClearCOGS Quick Answer: No, they are not the same thing. Your point of sale records what you sold, and what you sold was capped by what you had. On any day you ran out of an item, the number in your system understates what guests a
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The Guest Count Is Only Half the Answer
By Matt Wampler, CEO of ClearCOGS A server once came to my table after a youth soccer game and whispered, in the most apologetic voice I have ever heard, that they had run out of macaroni and cheese. In a normal restaurant that is one disappointed table.
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You're Not Ordering for Next Week
By Matt Wampler, CEO of ClearCOGS Quick Answer: A weekly order almost never covers seven days. It has to cover the window from the moment inventory was counted to the arrival of the delivery after the one you are placing, because that is the last moment y
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The Lunch Rush Is Won at 9am
By Matt Wampler, CEO of ClearCOGS Almost every business case for prep forecasting gets built on the cost side. Less waste, tighter food cost, fewer hours spent counting. Those numbers are real and they are easy to defend, which is why they end up in the d
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Cheap to Buy, Expensive to Make
By Matt Wampler, CEO of ClearCOGS There is a sentence I have heard in some version from almost every operator I talk to, and it sounds so reasonable that nobody ever challenges it. "That ingredient is cheap, so we always go overboard." Dough. Rice. Beans.
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How Accurate Does a Prep Forecast Need to Be?
By Matt Wampler, CEO of ClearCOGS Quick Answer: There is no single accuracy number that makes a prep forecast good. Accuracy measures how close a prediction lands to actual demand, but it treats running out and throwing away as the same size mistake, and
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Collegeville
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HQ
Chicago
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Regional office
222 W Merchandise Mart Plaza, Chicago, IL, 60654, US
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