AI for Consultants: Research, Synthesis, and What You Sell

Consulting bills for a bundle of research, analysis, synthesis and judgement, and AI compresses those at very different rates. This cursus separates them, exposes the synthesis trap where generated analysis reads like insight and delivers convention, and confronts the pricing problem that follows when the deliverable gets cheap. Then the production workflows and the sourcing chain that keeps a deliverable defensible. Then positioning: the disclosure conversation, advising on AI while using it, and what a client structurally cannot do for themselves.