The Future of Consulting

What does the future of consulting look like in the age of AI?

There are many that call AI the death knell of consulting. Or that AI providers interest in consulting is the obituary for the entire consulting industry.

I disagree. Rather, it is the obituary for a certain kind of consultany. The kind of consultancy that prints cash for “advice” or the consultancy that makes money using a mixture of cheap services and cheap labor. Neither of those types of consultancies survive the next five years. Unfortunately, that amounts to close to 70-80% of the industry.

But, the reason I stick to that 80% number (and not more) is counter-intuitive. And it has to do with the way AI companies are treating consulting. AI companies are investing in the “Forward Deployed Engineer”. Unfortunately, this is just a new name for a consultant who doesn’t understand your business model.

Consulting teams will wake up to the fact that there is massive value in humans that can interact with AI, code, understand a client business model, and communicate effectively with client business stakeholders. Once they do they will adapt to the new reality and ultimately survive the “service-pocalypse”

Learn more about this new kind of consulting.