• 2 September 2026

  The consulting industry under AI, in the data of its own restructuring

  The repricing of consulting is no longer speculative. The 2025-26 layoffs and the slow move toward outcome-based fees expose a mechanism: the major firms sell human hours, and AI reduces the hours each piece of work requires.
• 19 May 2026

  The length of the discovery phase is a business-model decision

  Interview-based process discovery produces an authored map that starts going stale the day it ships. Observation-based agents produce a more accurate map in days and keep it current. The duration of discovery is set by the engagement model rather than by the work.
• 17 May 2026

  The customer all four delivery models leave behind

  There are four ways to buy enterprise AI in 2026. Each assumes a customer profile. Each leaves the same business behind: the mid-market operator with no AI team and a manual workflow consuming a meaningful share of payroll.
• 15 May 2026

  Don't automate. Obliterate.

  Michael Hammer's 1990 essay is more correct in 2026 than it was then. AI is automating cow paths instead of obliterating them, and the seventy-five-percent reduction nobody captures is the cost.
• 13 May 2026

  Why your AI consultants left you a deck

  By month six of a typical Big-4 AI engagement, the deliverable is a deck and a pilot proposal, with nothing written to a system of record. The model serves the customer it was built for. Most operators are not that customer.