Why traditional management consulting is broken for founder-led companies and what replaces it.
Management consulting fails founder-led companies with 20 to 500 employees because the model requires enterprise-scale budgets and internal teams.
Traditional management consulting costs $300K and 16 weeks but delivers less insight than one round of confidential employee interviews.
Organizational intelligence platforms now automate the intelligence gathering that once required Big Four consultants at a fraction of the cost and time.
Organizational dysfunction in founder-led companies compounds weekly between problem emergence and founder awareness, requiring insight delivery in days rather than quarters.
Founders hire consultants believing they need expertise, but the actual need is clarity about their own company and decision-making priorities.
