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McKinsey's AI Platform Shows Consulting's Future — Here's What It Means

McKinsey didn’t just adopt AI. It rebuilt consulting as an intelligence system—and the rest of the industry is next.

Rafi Menachem

CEO & Founder

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🚨 McKinsey & Company just rewired itself with AI — and the rest of the consulting industry should pay attention.

McKinsey’s Lilli platform now handles over 500,000 AI prompts a month, saves consultants 30% of their time, and improves content accuracy by 20%.

The signal is clear:
The age of “consulting as craft” is ending.
The age of consulting as intelligence architecture has begun.

McKinsey has the scale and resources to build its own generative-AI ecosystem.

But most consulting firms — especially, sole consultants, boutiques and mid-sized players — don’t have that luxury.

And yet, they face the same inflection point:
*AI will either rewire your operating model or rewrite your relevance.*

At Syntari® AI, we see this shift up close every day.

Clients aren’t asking if they should use AI — but how to embed it into their strategy, delivery, and change management at scale.

That’s why we built an AI-native consulting model: one that combines human expertise with intelligent agents that replicate and augment the rigor of analyst research, PMO orchestration, and enterprise-scale change enablement — delivering the discipline of top-tier consulting at AI speed.

Boutique firms don’t need a Lilli.

They need a Syntari backbone — one that turns knowledge into leverage, and consulting work into scalable intelligence.

We’re helping firms design their AI operating models — from strategy to implementation to sustainment.

If you’re navigating that journey, comment to this posting and write "Get Syntari GPT" below, so I can I give you free access to the first 500 users of our Syntari AI lite, custom GPT.

What you'll get in Syntari AI Lite: We've taken all of the AI prompting best practices (chain of thought / tree of thought) + 19 safety guardrails (hallucinations and more) and made it accessible in one tool, Syntari AI Lite.


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