Claude Code consulting for management consultants

A 1-on-1 Claude Code setup for the independent or boutique consultant billing premium day rates without a junior bench. Skills for diagnostics, workshop synthesis, deliverable drafting, research, and the slide narrative work the big firms have a team to do.

You bill what a McKinsey partner bills, without the team behind a McKinsey partner.

Independent consultants and boutique partners sell premium day rates because they bring the brain, not the bench. The brain is what the client is paying for. The bench is what the client does not see. Slide assembly, interview transcription, secondary research, framework drafting, the appendix the client will never read but the firm always includes.

A junior at a tier-1 firm can absorb most of that. A junior costs the firm $300K loaded. You do not have one, and you do not want one. What you want is the work that a junior would do, drafted before you sit down to edit.

Claude Code, set up to your frameworks and your client folders, is the bench you have been pretending you do not need.

The skills that draft what a junior would draft

Client diagnostic synthesis

A skill that reads twenty interview transcripts from a discovery sprint and produces the diagnostic. Themes, direct quotes, dissenting views, the chart that shows where leadership disagrees with the line. The work that takes a junior two weeks, in a Friday morning.

Workshop output to memo

A skill that reads the whiteboard photos, the post-it transcript, and your facilitator notes. Drafts the workshop output memo in your firm's voice, structured for the steering committee. Sent the same week, not three weeks later.

Deliverable framework drafting

A skill that takes your IP frameworks (the 2x2s, the maturity models, the value chains you reuse) and applies them to a new client's data. Drafts the slide content. You edit the narrative, you do not start from a blank deck.

Research synthesis from public sources

A skill that reads the client's annual report, the competitor 10-Ks, the analyst notes, and the industry reports. Produces the situation analysis. The week of secondary research, replaced by an afternoon's review.

Slide narrative drafting

A skill that takes your storyline outline and your data points, and drafts the slide-by-slide narrative. Title, takeaway, supporting evidence, transition. The pyramid principle, applied without you principal-checking every page.

Proposal drafting from RFP

Drop the RFP into a folder. A skill reads the brief, your past proposals for similar work, and your firm's case studies. Drafts the proposal in your firm's structure. You edit the win themes, you do not assemble the boilerplate.

Try one client engagement, or set up the practice

Starter · $249 · 90 minutes

One engagement, one skill

Ninety minutes. We pick the most painful part of your current engagement and build a skill against it, usually the synthesis or the slide narrative. The expensable bet before booking the day. See the Starter →

The bench you have been pretending you do not need.

One day. The consultant setup. Your frameworks, your voice, drafted.