Management Consultant
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Mar 8, 2028 · 508 days left
AI does the research, the model and the slides about as well as a new analyst, so big firms are hiring fewer of them. Clients still pay for a partner they trust in the room.
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AI impact · ShrinkingManagement Consultant: what AI changes and what stays
The research, modeling and slide-building that used to fill a consulting team's week is now something AI produces at a level close to a trained analyst. What a client is actually paying for is narrowing to trust in the person delivering the answer.
Why is analyst-level consulting work shrinking specifically?
Research, financial modeling and slide decks are already at a level AI produces convincingly on its own, so YOU'RE NEXT rates today's tool at about seven out of ten on that analyst-level work and judges large firms as already cutting how many graduates they bring in to do it. The work itself hasn't disappeared; the number of people needed to produce it has dropped.
What does a client actually keep paying a consultant for?
Winning real trust from executives in a room where the recommendation will cost them something if it's wrong, facilitating a workshop where divided teams need to actually agree on something, and personally owning a recommendation's outcome all take a person a client is willing to be accountable to. That's a relationship, not a deliverable.
How should someone entering consulting spend their early years?
Push to be in the room with clients as early as possible instead of staying behind the deck production, since relationship and facilitation skill is what the field is narrowing around. Treat AI-produced analysis as the starting draft you're expected to question and improve, not the finished product you hand over.
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