The world’s most known consulting firm just stopped selling consulting. Three days ago, McKinsey announced a partnership with AppliedAI to deliver agentic AI workflows in regulated industries. Not a new practice. Not more consultants. A platform, Opus, that turns McKinsey’s transformation method into a repeatable, governed execution engine. Their own research sets the context: 64% of organisations are experimenting with

Anthropic just filed for a $1 trillion IPO. It has 300,000 enterprise clients. Most of them also have an IT services contract with TCS, Infosys or Wipro. Something has to give. I was talking to a consulting leader last month who told me their biggest competitor isn’t another IT firm anymore. It’s the fact that their client’s product team had

Your Client Just Got a New Team Member. It Works 24/7 and Doesn’t Invoice.  Last week, Google announced Gemini Spark. It’s a 24/7 AI agent that runs on Google Cloud even when your laptop is off. It connects to Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Calendar. It monitors inboxes, synthesizes meeting notes, drafts emails, completes multi-step tasks. Autonomously. Continuously. Sundar Pichai called it: