AI consulting shaped by the industry you serve.
Your firm's business model determines the workflow. Your client's sector determines what evidence, permissions and professional review that workflow needs.
These are discovery contexts for consulting firms, not a portfolio of proven deployments in every industry. Start with approved examples; the engagement determines what can be connected and who must validate it.
Professional services
- Work to explore
- Repeatable client briefs, proposals, source gathering and follow-up.
- What changes by sector
- Confidentiality between engagements and the difference between an administrative draft and professional advice.
- A first test
- One redacted engagement pack, one reviewer and a written list of allowed sources.
Industrial and manufacturing
- Work to explore
- Requirements gathering, supplier meeting preparation and technical proposal administration.
- What changes by sector
- Revision control, technical validation and decisions that depend on current specifications.
- A first test
- One historical tender with a known requirement list and deliberately missing information.
Technology and software
- Work to explore
- Discovery notes, implementation handoffs and customer follow-up.
- What changes by sector
- Fast-changing product documentation, access permissions and the ownership of commitments.
- A first test
- One completed implementation handoff checked against the accepted scope.
Financial services
- Work to explore
- Meeting administration, approved research summaries and internal document requests.
- What changes by sector
- Confidentiality, licensed information and qualified review of any regulated advice or decision.
- A first test
- A redacted administrative example; no investment decisions, client transactions or automated eligibility decisions.
Healthcare and life sciences
- Work to explore
- Non-clinical consultancy administration, programme preparation and approved public-source research.
- What changes by sector
- Sensitive information, clinical expertise and the permitted use of source material.
- A first test
- Public or synthetic material only at discovery; clinical decisions are outside this starting scope.
Consumer, retail and hospitality
- Work to explore
- Consulting proposals, location research briefs and client action tracking.
- What changes by sector
- Seasonality, local operating context and distinguishing assumptions from observed customer demand.
- A first test
- One advisory brief using approved public information; verify local facts with the client.
Agree the boundary before selecting a tool.
- State the output and the decisions it is allowed to support.
- Name the sources, permissions and people allowed to see the output.
- Choose a qualified reviewer and an escalation path for missing evidence.
- Test difficult examples, not only the normal path.
- Compare correction time and operating cost with the existing process.
Use the guide by consulting firm type to choose a first workflow, then try the workflow chooser.
Written by AI Jungle. Updated 13 September 2026. Sector-specific requirements are established with your team and advisers during scoping.
Start with the work you want to improve.
A Leverage Assessment examines the process, tools, evidence and review needs. The recommendation can be a smaller change, a first workflow to test, or a decision to wait.