AI Is Breaking the Consulting Business Model — The Bottleneck Was Context, Not Intelligence

Ashutosh Shrivastava shares an article about how AI is fundamentally disrupting the consulting business model. He highlights what he sees as the key insight: the traditional bottleneck in consulting was never intelligence itself, but rather context. Human consultants could only ever sample a small fraction of reality when analyzing problems and making recommendations.

With the emergence of AI agents and increasingly capable models, that constraint is being removed. These systems can process and synthesize far more information than human consultants, potentially undermining the core value proposition of traditional consulting firms. The post points to a broader shift in how knowledge work and advisory services may be restructured as AI capabilities continue to advance.