Consulting

AI-Driven Client Productivity Focus

In 2026, AI is transforming the Management Consulting industry as its use moves beyond experimentation to implementation. Perhaps surprisingly, most of the industry's AI apps now target practical ways to enhance client production processes rather than used for traditional top-down "strategic planning" analyses. Examples include AI-powered content creation, automated compliance processes, and intelligent workforce analytics.

Companies Leading Trend

  • McKinsey & Company – Deployed Lilli, an internal AI platform used by 70% of its 45,000 employees (on average, 17 times per week), which scans 100,000+ documents to provide instant insights and saves consultants 30% of their time on research and analysis tasks.
  • Boston Consulting Group (BCG) – Built 18,000 custom GPT agents across its 33,000-person workforce through partnership with OpenAI. They include GENE (conversational AI assistant), Deckster (AI slide builder used 450,000+ times), and specialized agents for field service optimization that deliver substantive consultant productivity gains.

Considering a Consulting Firm Sale or Purchase?

Kuhn Capital's principals have initiated over 80 mid-market technology transactions worth more than $3 billion. We advise consulting and professional services firms on sellside, buyside, and strategic advisory engagements. To discuss yours, email us or call (650) 353-3353.
A Kuhn Capital team member provided strategic advisory services to DecisionPath Consulting, specialist in KPI and management dashboard design
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Energy East retained a Kuhn Capital team member to initiate the sale of its Xenergy division, an energy demand management consultancy, to KEMA
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Leading consultancy ICF retained a Kuhn Capital team member to initiate the sale of its utility load shape consulting division to Nexus
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Ryan A. Kuhn
Ryan has run, invested in, and sold companies. For over 35 years, he has worked on both sides of mid-market technology M&A, advising owners on transaction preparation, market positioning, buyer selection and terms negotiation and advising corporate and private equity buyers on acquisitions.
  • Founder and Managing Director, Kuhn Capital. M&A advisor to mid-market technology companies.
  • Managing Director, Westbury Group, a mid-market investment bank, where he headed the technology, media and telecom practice.
  • CEO, Lilly Pulitzer, the clothing brand now owned by NYSE-listed Oxford Industries.
  • CEO, Reid Systems, an HR data firm now owned by General Dynamics.
  • Led software and data investments for Chicago private equity firm GTCR.
  • Led M&A at publisher McGraw-Hill.
  • Former board member, First Bank & Trust Company of Illinois.
  • MBA, Harvard Business School. BA in English and Psychology, Trinity College, Hartford.
Tim Williamson
Tim specializes in financial analyses, complex model building and valuation
  • Founder, TW Associates, merchant bank
  • Managing Director, Navigant Capital Advisors
  • Partner, EY Corporate Finance
  • Investment banker at Morgan Stanley, PaineWebber, Drexel Burnham, Lambert
  • MBA, Northwestern University. BA, Accounting/Finance, Southern Illinois University
Tom Flaherty
Tom has deep transaction experience with logistics, data processing and for-profit education firms
  • Managing Director, Roundstone Capital, advisor to large PE firms
  • General Partner, tech-focused PE firm Weeden Capital Management
  • General Partner, VC firm Applied Technology Partners
  • Senior ADP executive
  • Graduate studies, Econometrics/Finance, University of Pennsylvania. Instructor of Finance, Wharton. BA, Economics, Southern Connecticut State University
Patrick Richmond
Pat has led M&A and management for a number of data vendors
  • EVP, corpdev at Primark, a global information company now owned by Thomson Reuters
  • President, Primark Analytics, a collection of data/consulting businesses including Yankee Group
  • VP, Data Resources (DRI) econometrics data and consultancy now owned by IHS
  • BA, Economics, University of Kentucky. Graduate studies, Economics, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Kai Chen
Kai helps entrepreneurs like Kuhn Capital clients find promising Silicon Valley early-stage and real estate investment opportunities.
  • Managing Director, OceanIQ Capital
  • Director, Credit Suisse
  • Analyst, Goldman Sachs and Navigant Capital Advisors
  • Board member, Fresh Lifelines for Youth. Governor, ONE Liquidity DAO
  • BA, Business Economics, UCLA
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