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By Iwo Szapar, November 2024

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By 2025, a two-person AI-powered consultancy could outbid McKinsey for a Fortune 500 contract. Sounds far-fetched? Think again.

It was a sunny day in Madrid. The South Summit 2024 was in full swing, and I had a clear goal - pick the brains of fellow speakers about AI's impact on consulting.

I'd just wrapped my last meeting of the day. Sweat-soaked and brain-fried, I caught a phrase that cut through the haze:

"80% of consulting will vanish because of AI."

Bullshit, I thought. Then I paused.

What if it's true? Maybe instead of killing, it would do the opposite - democratize it?

Buckle up. I'm about to take you on a data-driven journey with insights gathered from interviews conducted with consultants worldwide.

• In-person interviews: with 32 subject matter experts at South Summit 2024.
• AI-Assisted Interviews: with 145 consultants on their “AI predictions for consulting industry” (June-August, 2024).
• **AI Maturity Index:** Data coming from 206 AI-assisted interviews with consultants, benchmarked to 1,822 interviews with other knowledge workers (August-November 2024).

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