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There you have it! The Big Three strategy consulting firms charge companies $500,000 to $3 MILLIO…

May 6, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 comments
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There you have it! The Big Three strategy consulting firms charge companies $500,000 to $3 MILLION for a single engagement.

For that price, you get a team of 26-year-olds fresh out of business school running the same playbook they ran for your competitor last quarter. Same frameworks. Same decks. Same "insights" repackaged with your logo on the cover.

You can't make this up.

They advise you AND your competitor simultaneously. They bill $600 an hour to tell you what a $200 AI token run already knows. And when they leave after 12 weeks, you have a 200-page PDF and zero operational capability.

I am done watching companies burn millions on strategy theater.

So I built something. Four AI agents — Strategy, Operations, Research, and Synthesis — that replace the entire engagement model. Not in 12 weeks. In an afternoon.

The Strategy agent dissects your competitive landscape. The Operations agent maps your workflows and finds the waste. The Research agent pulls real-time market data — not last quarter's recycled report. And the Synthesis agent turns it all into an actual execution plan. Not a deck. A plan.

Total cost? Less than $200 in AI tokens. For the same scope a top-tier firm charges seven figures.

I just published the full setup guide as a FREE resource on In the Nic of Time. Four agents. Step-by-step prompts. Ready to deploy today.

Sign up free at inthenicoftime.us — the guide is waiting in your member portal.

This is exactly what I write about in my book REPLACEMENT — coming end of July. Chapter 7 breaks down how AI is gutting the $300 billion consulting industry from the inside. The junior analysts go first. Then the senior partners realize the frameworks were always automatable. The entire business model is a house of cards.

This is what winning looks like. Stop paying millions for recycled PowerPoints. Build your own AI strategy team for free.

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