The Consulting Report

Traditional consulting engagements often come with long procurement cycles and rigid team structures that fail to adapt as an enterprise project evolves. For Fortune 1000 and private equity leaders, waiting months to deploy a multi-tiered team from a legacy firm can stall critical operational momentum. Pat Petitti’s work at Catalant focuses on providing an alternative model h...

Anthropic and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are putting $200 million toward AI tools designed for some of the world’s hardest-to-reach needs, from neglected disease research to classroom support and economic mobility. The four-year partnership combines grant funding, Claude usage credits, and technical support for programs in the U.S. and abroad, with a focus on are...

KPMG has launched an expansive global alliance with AI developer Anthropic, embedding the Claude frontier AI model directly into its client delivery systems. The initial integration targets tax clients and private equity firms through the KPMG Digital Gateway, a cloud platform built on Microsoft Azure. By integrating Claude Cowork and Managed Agents into the system, professio...

Accenture Federal Services and OpenAI have formed a strategic collaboration aimed at helping U.S. federal agencies adopt, migrate, and scale advanced AI more quickly. Accenture Federal will serve as an OpenAI implementation partner for the federal market, supporting agencies as they move AI work from experimentation into production-ready government environments.

The...

AI has shortened the path from idea to proof of concept. It has also exposed a harder problem: many companies can experiment quickly, but struggle to turn those experiments into systems that improve daily decision-making.

At Acies Global, Founder and CEO Mukund Raghunath helps clients move from experimentation to operating impact through what he describes as the cre...