Kevin O'Leary Says AI Is Already Replacing Consultants - Business Insider

You hired the consultant. They oversold. Then disappeared. Sound familiar? Kevin O'Leary just said out loud what many of us already suspected — AI is replacing the generic advice that consultants hav

You hired the consultant. They oversold. Then disappeared.

Sound familiar? Kevin O'Leary just said out loud what many of us already suspected — AI is replacing the generic advice that consultants have been charging a premium to deliver for decades.

But here's the part nobody's saying clearly enough.

The problem was never that you picked the wrong consultant. It was that you were sold a process when you needed a specific answer. Big consulting firms built their business on billable hours, not outcomes. AI doesn't need billable hours.

That's actually good news for you. Tools exist right now that can do what a junior consultant does — research, analysis, first-draft strategy — in minutes, not months. No retainer required.

You don't need to overhaul anything to test this. Pick one recurring task your team handles weekly that eats 2-3 hours. Run it through ChatGPT for two weeks. Compare the output. That's it. One task, two weeks, measurable result.

No new systems. No fired employees. No code. Just one honest data point that belongs to you.

Have you tried AI for a specific business task and actually seen it work — or did it quietly join your list of unused tools?

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