In April 1014, on the coast of what is now Dublin, a political and trading order that had seemed permanent collapsed in a single day. The chroniclers who had described the old arrangement as stable were suddenly wrong about everything. The forces they had dismissed as peripheral turned out to be the ones that mattered.

We believe something structurally similar is underway in Western politics — and because our competitors, the firms that staffed and shaped the post-Cold War order, are constitutionally unable to see it. Their analysts are drawn from the institutions under pressure. Their networks are losing value every day. And their clients are paying for reassurance dressed as analysis.

Clontarf means “meadow of the bull.” Prosperity always has a political context.

The Clontarf Group was built for allocators who need to understand what comes next — not confirmation that the present will continue.