Inside the AI startups reinventing consulting: 'It's not as good as McKinsey, but it's instant'

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There's a new spate of startups taking on the MBB.

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Here's the deck Dialogue AI used to land $6 million to transform $140 billion customer research industry

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Dialogue AI cofounders Justin Hoang, Hubert Chen, and Benjamin Lo are drawing on their experience at Nextdoor to reinvent market research.

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I'm a music major. Here's how it helped me land an internship at BCG.

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Grant Hill, a junior majoring in music and economics at Brigham Young University, will intern at BCG in the summer of 2026.

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BCG says only 5% of companies are deriving value from AI. Here are the industries it says are getting it right.

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BCG says there's only a small handful of AI winners.

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I've worked in Big Four consulting and Big Tech. Both were stressful, but I know which I'd pick if I restarted my career.

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Mandy Liu worked at EY for two years and at Meta for three years.

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Nearly 90% of BCG employees are using AI — and it's reshaping how they're evaluated

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Alicia Pittman, Global People Team chair at Boston Consulting Group, says AI use is becoming a more critical criteria for performance.

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Accenture is cutting staff it can't retrain in the age of AI — but it still plans to hire more people

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Accenture is cutting staff it can't retrain in the AI era — but says head count will still grow in the next fiscal year.

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Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa adds more pressure to consulting's growing recruitment woes

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I felt my role as a Salesforce consultant was at risk because of AI. After training myself to become an expert, I feel much more secure in my job.

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Joey Monroe.

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McKinsey is doubling down on entry-level hires — even in the AI era

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McKinsey's Eric Kutcher

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