How AI Helps Management Analysts
Consultants spend hours on first drafts of research summaries, interview notes and slides. 12² builds a firm-private assistant grounded in the firm's past deliverables and templates, plus guidance on where AI is reliable and where it is not.
Consulting Research & Deck Assistant · From $4,500 + $349/mo, by team size · proposed estimate · It says it is an automated assistant whenever it talks to someone directly, and your team reviews what it drafts before it goes out.
Ai for management consultants: the short answer.
AI can help a management consultant summarize interviews and documents, draft research memos and slide outlines, and build issue trees. In a field experiment with 758 BCG consultants, AI users finished more tasks faster on work within AI's reach, but did worse on a task outside it, so review steps matter.
Sources
- Field experiment, 758 BCG consultants: 12.2% more tasks, 25.1% faster on in-frontier tasks; worse on out-of-frontier task (Dell'Acqua et al.)pubsonline.informs.org
- RCT: ChatGPT cut professional writing task time 40%, quality +18%; participants were marketers, grant writers, consultants, data analysts, HR pros, managers (Noy & Zhang, Science 2023)news.mit.edu
Where the hours go now.
Interviews and source documents
Consultants spend hours on first drafts of research summaries, interview notes and slides.
First-pass research memos and slide outlines
Written up by hand, one at a time, after the real work is done.
Issue trees and question lists
Rebuilt from scratch each time, usually at the end of the day.
What it handles, and what it never does.
What it handles
- Interviews and source documentsIt summarizes interviews and source documents.
- First-pass research memos and slide outlinesIt drafts first-pass research memos and slide outlines.
- Issue trees and question listsIt builds issue trees and question lists.
- Checking drafts against the firm style guideIt checks drafts against the firm style guide.
- Hand-off to your teamAnything that needs a person goes to the right person, with the details attached.
What it never does
- Make up a price or a factIt works only from the documents, records and price lists you give it. Anything it can't find goes to your team.
- Promise a resultQuestions about outcomes go to the person who does the work.
- Pretend to be a personIt says it is an automated assistant whenever it talks to someone directly.
- Send anything on its ownDrafts wait for your team's approval before anything goes out.
Built and tested on your own work.
Before handoff, we run your build on your own real examples and fix anything that misses.
- Tested on your own workBefore handoff, we run your build on your own real examples and fix anything that misses.
- Retainer, then balance on deliveryRetainer up front. Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass.
- Fixed price, scope and timelineAll three in writing before work starts. The timeline is set in your quote.
- What 12² buildsA firm-private assistant grounded in the firm's past deliverables and templates, plus guidance on where AI is reliable and where it is not.
- How it connectsWe confirm how it connects to the tools you already use on the first call and write it into your quote.
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From $4,500 + $349/moSetup + monthly, by size. The monthly fee covers monitoring, fixes and re-tests for your package as your templates, documents and staff change. AI and software usage is billed at cost. Proposed starting estimates by team size, not fixed prices; the final price is in a written quote.
- Small: Small firm (1-10 staff)From $4,500 + $349/mo. The core build for 1-10 staff: a firm-private assistant grounded in the firm's past deliverables and templates, plus guidance on where AI is reliable and where it is not. Proposed estimate. Small tier is about the size of a 12squared.ai Proof build; monthly covers hosting, monitoring and fixes.
- Mid-size: Mid firm (11-50 staff)From $9,500 + $750/mo. Everything in Small firm, for more users, inboxes and calendars, with hand-off rules set for each role. Proposed estimate. Mid tier is about the size of a Core build (more users, more integrations).
- Enterprise: Large firm / enterprise (50+ staff)From $25,000, custom quote. Everything in Mid firm, across locations or departments, with system integrations and a security review scoped in your custom quote. Proposed estimate. Starts near the Product build range; scope, integrations and security review set the final number. No cap.
- Retainer up front Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass. Scope, price and timeline are agreed in writing before work starts.
- You own itThe accounts, scripts, templates and data sit in your name. You can leave at any time.
- Compliance and dataClient NDAs; keep client data in the firm's tenant. The BCG study found worse results on tasks outside AI's reach, so review steps are built in.
Straight answers.
Is AI good at strategy work?
Within its range it helped consultants in the BCG study; on one harder task, users did worse. We map which tasks are which for your firm.
How does payment work?
Retainer up front. Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass.
How long does it take?
Timelines are set per project in the quote, after we see your systems and volume.
Are these prices final?
No. They are proposed starting estimates. You get a written custom quote after a short scoping call.
Tell us how you handle interviews and source documents now.
A few lines is enough. If it's a fit we'll say so, and if it isn't we'll tell you why.
- A real replyWritten for you by 12², within one business day. Never an autoresponder.
- A free 20-minute callHow the work runs now, what gets missed, and what your team needs from it.
- A fixed quoteYour size, scope, date and price in writing before any work starts.
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