For the Love of Hospitality, and People…

We are an impact fund focused on acquiring distressed hospitality assets and repositioning them under our proprietary, faith-driven brand, Slumber and Dough®, the first boutique hotel brand for select-service hotels with real meaning for the consumer.

“I want to take everything I have learned professionally and combine it with everything I have learned in my faith and combine it to create a brand that has an impact on every community that we operate in”

—Chris Kilcullen, Founder, Cleer Capital / Slumber and Dough®

Faith-Driven Hospitality Investing—Transforming Hotels & Communities with Kingdom Impact

At Cleer Capital, we believe hospitality is an expression of love for our neighbors. As a boutique hotel investment firm, we are committed to creating lasting impact—one that extends beyond our guests' stay and into the lives of our employees and communities.

A Commitment to Impact Investing

The concept of Impact Investing has gained momentum in both faith and secular communities. After listening to founders of other faith-driven businesses, leaders, and experts, we have defined core principles that guide our approach:

  • 10% of Net Operating Income (NOI), after debt service, is dedicated to impact initiatives.

    • 50% directly benefits our staff, distributed quarterly based on hours worked. Housekeepers, front desk agents, and other team members—often earning minimum wage. We will have a direct path toward advancement and tools to help break generational poverty. We will train our staff to understand the business so they will see how guest satisfaction, operational efficiencies, and team success translate into personal financial rewards. We want to know our staff as people, not just employees, and understand their dreams so we can coach them to achieve them.

    • 50% supports benevolent causes within our hotels and local communities. This will include partnering with Kingdom-minded nonprofits focused on poverty alleviation.

  • Faith-Based Community & Personal Development

    • Each property will host voluntary Bible studies and have a corporate chaplain who provides spiritual support, often seen in the lobby connecting with guests and employees over coffee.

    • Hotel rooms will feature custom-designed bookmarks in Bibles, inviting guests to take a Bible as a gift and an invitation to share prayer requests via email.

    • Each room will have a small sign with a QR Code to the Verse of The Day on the Bible App and an email address for prayer requests. Suplte yet visible for those in need.

    • Our HR team will offer life-enhancing programs such as Financial Peace University, addiction recovery resources, and other Biblically grounded support systems to help both staff and the surrounding community.

Cleer Capital’s mission is to transform hospitality into a force for good, helping our employees break out of generational poverty while fostering a community-driven, Kingdom-focused impact.

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Our focus is on select-service properties that are three stories or higher and are losing their franchise, often relegated to a "graveyard" of economy brands. Our strategy is to selectively identify properties with solid construction and strategic locations that can be acquired at a discount to replacement costs. This approach allows us to reposition these assets, and transform them into attractive, competitive properties to unlock their value,

Given the nature of our acquisition model, we will target assets with up to 36 months remaining on their existing franchise agreements. This strategy enables us to generate cash flow during the remaining term, build customer relationships, and execute renovations with a focus on prudent, meaningful, and cost-effective design enhancements.

Our initial capital raise will allow us to acquire 12–15 hotels to implement and refine our property-level business model. As each property stabilizes under the Slumber and Dough brand, we will refinance with long-term debt using conservative leverage. This process will fuel our pipeline, enabling us to scale to 50 properties through subsequent raises or sales.

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