About Us

Your Growth is our business

Who We Are

alliant is a leading consulting and technology firm dedicated to helping businesses grow. For more than twenty five years, we have served as a trusted growth partner for organizations across the country. Our work centers on helping leaders navigate the people, process, and technology challenges that define modern business.

What We Offer

Capabilities Modern Businesses Need

Growth is harder today. Markets have become more volatile, technology is evolving faster than organizations can adapt and exceptional talent is increasingly more difficult to find and even harder to retain. Our purpose is simple: to stand with leaders and implement strategies and solutions to overcome these challenges and move their businesses forward.

Built to Support Growth at Every Stage

To keep U.S. businesses competitive in an increasingly disruptive and chaotic market, alliant has organically grown and strategically acquired best-in-class practices and expertise across a complete growth ecosystem:

Consulting: Aligning strategy, leadership, and operations to drive measurable outcomes
AI & Technology: Applying AI practically to modernize decision-making, workflows, and insight
Managed Services: Delivering scalable capacity across finance, accounting, and technology operations
Specialty Tax Services: Navigating complex incentives and policy to unlock capital and manage risk

Why Businesses Partner With Us

It starts with our people. alliant gives business leaders direct access to experienced industry professionals, policymakers, and former IRS commissioners who have worked inside the systems our clients operate in every day.

This experience allows us to move beyond recommendations. We stay involved through implementation, help teams make informed tradeoffs, and remain accountable for outcomes.

For leaders who need clear answers and practical guidance, our people provide the experience and judgment required to make decisions with confidence.

Our History

2001-2005

2006-2010

2011-2015

2016-2019

2020-2021

2022-2025

2001-2005

2006-2010

2011-2015

2016-2019

2020-2021

2022-2025

Every growth story starts somewhere

alliant begins with a belief that giving businesses every advantage to grow leads to stronger, more innovative companies
Focuses on supporting businesses in claiming R&D Tax Incentives as a foundation for reinvestment and growth
Grows from two founders to more than 100 employees in four years
Opens the first Houston office in 2003 and expands to the West Coast with an office in Newport Beach, California

From fast growth to national presence

Expands nationally to better support growing and multi-location businesses
Opens offices in Chicago and New York, extending reach into major economic markets
Dean Zerbe, former Senior Counsel to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, joins in 2008
Mark Everson, former IRS Commissioner, joins as Chairman in 2010

Serving businesses in every industry and every state

Evolves from a fast-growing firm into a national advisory platform
Opens a National Office in Washington, D.C. in 2011, providing direct access to federal policy, regulatory guidance, and national leadership
Establishes the Houston Global Headquarters to anchor long-term growth
Surpasses 500 employees, reflecting national scale and organizational maturity
Rick Lazio, former U.S. Representative from New York, joins in 2011
Kathy Petronchak, former IRS Commissioner of the Small Business and Self-Employed Division, joins in 2013
Steven Miller, former Acting IRS Commissioner, joins in 2014

Building global reach and consulting depth

Expands beyond incentives into broader advisory and execution support
Acquires ForrestBrown, establishing London as the United Kingdom headquarters and expanding international capability
Grows to more than 800 employees worldwide, strengthening global delivery
Establishes a dedicated technology practice in 2018 to help enterprises modernize systems and scale operations
Mike Johanns, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and former U.S. Senator from Nebraska, joins in 2017

Investing in people and global capacity to support complex growth

Launches a Global Capability Center in Hyderabad, India, scaling global delivery to support enterprises navigating operational, regulatory, and workforce complexity
Scales the team in India from 3 to 94 in one year
Launches the Employee Retention Credit practice
Heidi Heitkamp, former U.S. Senator and former North Dakota Attorney General and Tax Commissioner, joins in 2020
Eric Hylton, former IRS Commissioner of the Small Business and Self-Employed Division, joins in 2021

Becoming a comprehensive growth partner for the modern enterprise

Acquires established consulting practices serving enterprise organizations, significantly expanding advisory depth
Evolves into a fully integrated growth partner, supporting enterprises across people, process, and technology
Continues to expand Digital and AI practice in 2022, welcoming enterprise practice leaders and helping businesses embed intelligence into operations, decision-making, and workflows
Reaches more than 2,000 employees globally
Eric Paulsen, former U.S. Congressman from Minnesota, joins in 2022
Dr. Robert Ambrose, former NASA Senior Executive and robotics leader, joins in 2022
Darren Guillot, former senior IRS executive, joins in 2023