How AI threatens the giants of consulting

It all started with a chicken shop deal. When Mark Bunker read about the founders of a UK fast-food chain walking away with a small fortune after a private equity deal, he felt something close to envy. “It can’t be that difficult,” he recalls thinking.

But Bunker was a Deloitte senior advisory partner, not a chef. Launching a new advisory firm capable of competing with the huge incumbents was widely considered impossible. Scale was everything in consulting.

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