End of Big Consulting

6ai | do-it-yourself

6ai is not about brilliance, but the activity of learning, not perfection, but the art of getting there, confidently, which provides the most fulfilment.

With the ongoing discussions about the ‘AI revolution’ and the widespread claim that AI will take over everyone’s jobs — which is not accurate — it is crucial to distinguish between what is true and what is not. Regarding 6ai technologies, it is a human-centric software that does not aim to make AI competitive with, surpass, or replace human intelligence. Instead, it focuses on Gen-AI as a utility, adopting an augmenting approach to amplify and enhance human abilities. 6ai is not an AI generalist; it is specifically designed to replace consultants and serve as your partner in strategy design and development.

As knowledge acquisition becomes more democratized and accessible, the future will belong to companies that can bridge the gap (via software and applications) between human and machine expertise — a new paradigm in enterprise and human value creation.

6ai believes in the irreplaceable human creativity and ingenuity, not in the fallacy that Everything-AI can replace them everywhere. Machines can neither think nor reason. It’s just an amazing and trained memory bank for the appearance of intelligence.

Nevertheless, the hype is pervasive. Mark Zuckerberg, boss of Meta, has promised that brands will soon be able to “tell us what objective they’re trying to achieve…how much they’re willing to pay for each result, and then we just do the rest.” And Sam Altman of OpenAI says that “95% of what marketers use agencies, strategists and creative professionals for today will easily, nearly instantly and at almost no cost be handled by the AI.” That’s just bogus hype!

A recent MIT report found that 95% of generative AI pilot projects at companies fail to deliver measurable business results, with many companies stuck in “pilot purgatory”, instead of scaling successful initiatives.

Nobel Laureate Daron Acemoglu, drawing from his research, The Simple Macroeconomics of AI, adds, “AI might automate only 5% of tasks and add just 1% to global GDP over the next decade.” While many are lured by promises that AI will rapidly transform everything, the macroeconomic facts tell a different story, he explains.

Therefore, we must separate the hype from the marketplace reality. 6ai Technologies sees significant transformative enterprise value in Agentic-AI, particularly in the big consulting industry, and has created software to disrupt and change the way strategy is crafted in the age of AI.

The book “The Big Con” by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington argues that the consulting industry has evolved into a “confidence trick” that weakens businesses, infantilizes governments, and warps economies by creating dependency on its services. The book details how large consultancies, through extensive contracts and a culture of outsourcing, for example, have hollowed out the public sector’s capacity and expertise. Prioritizing their own profit and short-term gains over long-term societal interests and accountability, often using simplistic frameworks and obscuring the lack of real knowledge transfer.

Chief executives have primarily used big consultants as a hedge, to deflect blame to poor outside advisory when things go sideways, but take full credit when success happens. However, with the assent of AI, big consulting firms like Accenture, which had a stock market valuation of $250 billion as of February 2024, have seen about $100 billion wiped out from their market value. As the market begins to realize the power and effectiveness of AI-agents, for example, as a tool and replacement for consultants, it has become difficult for executives and stakeholders to justify the enormous fees consultancies like Accenture charge.

Firms like Accenture have built their success on partnerships with enterprises, embedding them into the organization’s culture, making consultants highly sought after for their perceived expertise. However, now with AI, expertise can be just a keystroke away, and the right technology tools can put that ‘expertise’ in reach in no time, at an infinitesimal fraction of the cost versus the consultant teams.

With 6ai software, executives, managers, and lower-level employees alike can now work together in teams from a single dashboard to build enterprise strategy — execute, monitor and adjust in real-time!

Anyone can do strategy themselves! The value-for-money and time proposition is undeniable with the utilization and partnering with technology.

Accenture’s answer is: “Reinvent, Thrive, and Grow” model, part of its overall strategy of Total Enterprise Reinvention in the age of AI. It shifts the focus from traditional, time-bound transformation projects to a continuous, integrated approach to achieve sustainable growth and outperformance. The goal is to “move beyond mere optimization and reshape entire industries by leveraging technology, data, and talent.”

In other words, they’ll use AI to do client work and charge them for it.

As ridiculous as that sounds, that’s their strategy. But if clients have access to the same or similar AI tools Accenture and the other big consultants have, why in the world would anyone with an ounce of intelligence pay someone to use AI for them when they can do-it-themselves?

Accenture’s new model contracts have slowed dramatically, from $200m a quarter last year to $100m in the past quarter. Clients are not stupid; they realize what’s happening and are looking for their own efficient technology solutions. The financial savings are too significant to ignore; managers who foolishly continue to use consultants in any meaningful way will soon lose their jobs.

Why 6ai?

AI’s democratization of knowledge, making expertise easy to access, has fundamentally changed the game! Humans…consultants can’t compete with the amazing processing power of machines. It’s futile. 6ai understands and has developed software to partner technology with insiders of organizations, who are the most qualified to do the work that has previously been outsourced to consultants.

6ai is your strategy partner, providing a resourceful do-it-yourself platform that goes way beyond analyzing, synthesizing, structuring information, and finding insights — to producing a complete strategy — with ongoing in real-time iteration capabilities, measuring, monitoring and adjusting when alerted by the system of material changes in the market, that will affect the designed strategy.

6ai empowers anyone to design anything from high-level, multi-billion-dollar corporate strategies to personal growth strategies. At a fraction of the cost of using traditional consultants, advisors, or specialists.

Unlike ChatGPT, 6ai does the prompting, engaging the user in the Socratic Conversational Method (SCM) of questioning and response to learn more about what the user is thinking, their vision and the premise and proposition, for the first step of establishing the right strategic question to be solved.

6ai is built on Formal Deductive Logic, aligned with its proprietary six-step applied intelligence IP, which includes form, structure, premise and proposition as foundational pillars of effective strategy design. Conversely, LLM-based products like ChatGPT are based on the fallacy of Informal Logic, a form of reasoning where no rules of deduction apply, just predicting the next word, and connecting dots of generalities. That’s why it hallucinates all the time!

6ai is a persevere of truth, backed by a disciplined and defined step-by-step scientific process for justification with ideation flow. In contrast, ChatGPT just blends information informally, but you cannot always trace each statement back to its source or verify the process explicitly. No system is flawless, but users can be confident with the mathematical process involved in 6ai.

6ai has incorporated a system of checks and balances, which includes initial validation with the user to understand the problem statement, independent verification of logic rules, and ongoing monitoring of a continuously enriched context to ensure responses stay relevant to the current conversational objectives of the inquirer. Hallucination-free!

What 6ai does that LLM models can’t

• Insight discovery, automated strategy development, real-time monitoring/adjusting

• Strategy blueprint, design architecture, development

• Sales, marketing & execution

• Monitoring, Measuring & Optimization

• Empowering internal teams…do it themselves…no outsourcing to consultants

• Facilitates critical thinking and seeing things differently than most

• Filling the gaps in logic: design thinking and ideation

• Execute on your authentic vision, not a stale, frequently used consultant template

• The application of empathy…helps you see the other side…

• Assessment of risk…embedded risk management tools…strategy drift alerts

6ai value proposition

• Incredibly low cost and reduction in time and resources. What previously took weeks and months, teams of consultants and ridiculously high pricing, can now be achieved in just hours or less.

  
  

• Not just analysis: 6ai orchestrates intelligence and applies it to the right value-adding tasks in the organization — automating the entire strategy process — using the 6-step applied intelligence process IP to uncover insights and turn them into viable strategies for winning.

  
  

• Leaders and teams can spend less time producing work and more time shaping it, interpreting it, applying it, and driving it to successful execution. 6ai does the heavy lifting, and users get the benefits.

A new paradigm

Empowers leaders to halt the outsourcing of strategy and overdependency on consultants, shifting it back inside the organization to internal teams, saving significant expenditure and time, which increases the intrinsic value of the enterprise.

Upskill internal staff — encourages design thinking, storytelling, transformation management, creativity, innovation and change leadership.

Shift from static consultants’ PowerPoint presentations and reports that are just shelved and gather dust, to real-time do-it-yourself tools, dashboards, and embedded capabilities; anytime, anywhere.

Blending cross-functional talent and teams, fostering a flat entrepreneurial culture, connecting the organization and getting everyone on the same page.

Mindset shift from outsourcing knowledge to knowledge acquisition: “we learn, we interpret, orchestrate, and implement,” increases the intellectual and productive value and skills of every person in the organization.

6ai — expertise lives across two domains:

• Machines that bring depth, scale, and speed

• Humans who bring vision, empathy, judgment, and direction

6ai methodology combines and leverages both seamlessly into a simple, easy-to-use solution that doesn’t require any special skill or training; anyone can use it. A practical model where humans and machines collaborate to deliver deeper, faster, and more real-world impactful results.

In the digital age, success will increasingly be defined by those who can turn abundant knowledge into aligned, actionable, and enduring change. 6ai is the right partner for that.