How Consulting Reveals the Real Pattern of AI Disruption
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Nathaniel Whittemore
4.7 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
NLW shares 13 lessons from the consulting industry that expose how AI disruption really happens—not through mass extinction, but through transformation. From collapsing delivery costs and shifting client expectations to new capabilities and challenger firms on the rise, this episode explores why consulting is the perfect case study for understanding the future of work in the age of AI.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is sponsored by Google. |
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| 0:28.6 | As AI-related layoffs make headlines, today we are exploring why the consulting and broader |
| 0:35.6 | professional services industry is a perfect |
| 0:38.3 | case study in how AI disruption is actually likely going to take place. |
| 0:43.3 | The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions |
| 0:48.3 | in AI. |
| 0:53.3 | All right, friends, quick announcements before we dive in. |
| 0:56.4 | First of all, thank you to our sponsors, Gemini, robots and pencils, Blitzy, Rovo, and Assembly. |
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| 1:07.2 | And for information about sponsorships, shoot us a note at sponsors at AIDailyBree.aI. One more quick reminder, our end-of-year ROI benchmarking study is live at R.O.i Survey.com. And I would so appreciate it if you would contribute a use case or two. Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief. I am traveling this week for my anniversary, so we are using that as a chance to do some slightly different |
| 1:27.7 | types of shows that we normally don't have time for with the ever-pressing crush of AI |
| 1:31.5 | news. Now, today's topic actually in many ways does connect to a key story that we've been |
| 1:37.8 | tracking, which is the rise of layoffs that claim to be, and in many cases, are actually |
| 1:43.0 | related to artificial intelligence. |
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