AI for Consulting Firms: 15 Practical Use Cases, Risks, and Controls
Fifteen AI use cases that hold up in a consulting firm, ranked by value and risk, with the control each one needs and the ones I would not start with.
Practical guides for consulting, banking, M&A, insurance, and regulated industries. Learn how to automate presentation work while protecting confidential data, approved content, brand standards, and human review.
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Fifteen AI use cases that hold up in a consulting firm, ranked by value and risk, with the control each one needs and the ones I would not start with.
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Forty checks across argument, evidence, numbers, confidentiality, brand and the final file, ordered the way an experienced reviewer actually works through a deck.
A buyer's checklist for AI presentation software in 2026: data processing, permissions, output format, brand control, auditability, contracts and exit. 60 questions.
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A PowerPoint Company Brain is a governed knowledge layer that connects approved slides, CVs, references, templates and wording to the people and agents who build decks.
How I would build PowerPoint automation for a regulated team: approved inputs, bounded actions, traceable sources, native output, and a named human approver.
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Our founders write from first-hand experience: Florian on consulting and agentic AI, Maximilian on data protection and enterprise operations, and Robin on AI architecture and security. We share this expertise to help teams build safer, faster, and more professional presentation workflows. Regulatory content is grounded in primary sources and receives specialist review where required.