Consulting Case Study

Powering an AI strategy co-pilot for 30,000+ consultants globally

Problem

Fixing inefficient consulting research

A leading global management consultancy was building a comprehensive AI suite to transform how its 30,000+ professionals deliver strategic insights for client engagements. They faced key obstacles:

  • Research inefficiency: Analysts spent up to 20% of project time researching, gathering and verifying information across fragmented sources.
  • Grounding AI solutions: Their suite of LLM-powered tools needed reliable, real-time knowledge to avoid hallucinations and provide accurate strategic insights.
  • Quality data access: Traditional search tools couldn't reliably surface high-quality, real-time market intelligence needed to power their AI applications effectively.

Solution

Building an AI-powered strategy co-pilot

The firm built an AI-powered strategy co-pilot that grounds their LLM applications with live web data and real-time market news, powered by Exa's search endpoint and crawled contents.

Working with Exa's API, the consulting firm created:

Real-Time Knowledge Grounding

Integrated live web data directly into their LLM applications to ensure strategic recommendations are based on current market conditions.

Enterprise AI Infrastructure

Built reliable, scalable knowledge pipelines that support their entire portfolio of AI-powered consulting tools.

Implementation

Integrating Exa's search and crawling

Search API
Returns results and their contents

Qualities:

  • Neural search
  • Keyword-based search
  • Relevant results

Key benefits of using Exa's Search Endpoint include:

  • Semantic and keyword search: Automatically chooses between neural and keyword search for optimal results based on query type. This means the AI co-pilot can find contextually relevant results with high accuracy and speed.
  • Real-time content extraction: Access full webpage text, summaries, and structured data from live sources.
  • Enterprise reliability: Privacy-forward. High throughput and low latency to support thousands of concurrent users.

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Results

Real-time grounding for 30-50% faster research

The consulting firm deployed the research co-pilot across their global workforce and measured significant impact.

  • Higher consultant productivity: Analysts reported spending 30-50% less time on research. This meant more time spent on insight-generation and client interaction versus information gathering.
  • Competitive differentiation: Ability to integrate real-time information into strategic recommendations.