4 AI-powered consulting startups to watch into 2026

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Aily Labs CEO Bianca Anghelina and Tanmai Gopal, CEO of PromptQL.

Ruder Finn; Bonfire Partners

Kong CEO describes his early startup grind days, from living on $1,000 a month to sleeping on Travis Kalanick's couch

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A composite image of Augusto Marietti and Travis Kalanick
A composite image of Augusto Marietti and Travis Kalanick

Courtesy of Kong; Paul Sakluma/AP

I demoed a buzzy AI startup and got a glimpse of what investment bankers' jobs might start to look like

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A black laptop on a desk with a dark city skyline behind it.
Hebbia's demo gave me insight into how investment banking could change in the coming years.

Hebbia

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

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

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These 14 companies have left California over the years

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Many of the big companies that have left California had their roots in San Francisco and the Bay Area.

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

Dialogue AI

I'm Gen Z and don't use a smartphone or social media. It's made me more extroverted and led to deeper friendships.

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Gabriela Nguyen
Gabriela Nguyen, 24, primarily uses a phone with no internet or social media.

Corrie Aune for BI

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman says you can't 'build something extraordinary' working 38 hours a week

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Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman

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AI is supposed to kill jobs. Instead, AI companies are hiring in droves, fueling a resurgence of Silicon Valley offices.

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An aerial view of Silicon Valley

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A major Silicon Valley medtech company just announced it was pausing H-1B hires

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Intuitive Surgical Gary Guthart
Gary Guthart

YouTube presentation/Intuitive

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