Author: Michaela Voller

For decades, the consulting industry sold two things: access to benchmarked intelligence, and access to bright, relentlessly hardworking talent. Clients paid premium rates to know what their competitors were doing and to borrow the brainpower to figure out how to respond. That model made McKinsey, it made Deloitte, and it made the Big Four into institutions. And then, almost without warning, an AI language model could do the first part for free. According to Gartner, by 2026 more than 80% of enterprises will have used generative AI APIs or deployed AI-enabled applications, a shift that has arrived faster than most…