Executive Summary

Many product, strategy and finance teams at mid-market and enterprise companies routinely spend 2–6 weeks and tens of thousands of dollars per engagement waiting for outside consultants to produce analysis and actionable plans; that time and cost burden affects roughly 25 million businesses that together spend about $300B annually on consulting and strategy (about $12K per business). These teams need repeatable, auditable, and operational recommendations that can be executed by internal teams rather than bespoke slide decks and long vendor engagements. You could build a SaaS platform that ingests company documents, data warehouses and third‑party benchmarks into a vector DB, runs multi‑step LLM playbooks for diagnosis and solution design, and outputs implementation roadmaps, KPIs, and executable templates with human‑in‑the‑loop approval. The product would include RAG‑grounding, automated calculations and sensitivity analyses, integrations to BI/CRM/PM tools, and an audit trail so recommendations are verifiable and updateable as new data arrives. This is an attractive moment: foundational LLMs and long‑context models have improved contextual reasoning and multi‑step workflows, RAG and vector DB patterns reduce hallucinations, and buyers are shifting from bespoke services to SaaS for operationalizing best practices—supporting the $300B addressable market and a high revenue upside. Competition is medium, but the timing favors vendors who can reliably safe‑guard data and demonstrate ROI quickly. To stand out you’ll need industry‑focused playbooks, rigorous grounding and traceability, measurable SLAs and pricing tied to realized savings rather than just seat fees, plus partnerships with boutique consultants to handle change management. The main challenges are building trust (legal/compliance and auditability), the initial cost of domain tuning and integrations, and longer enterprise sales cycles—mitigate these with pilot programs that deliver payback within 60–90 days and a clear human escalation path.

Market Opportunity

Teams waste weeks on expert analysis — automate consultant work with AI targets a $300B = 25M businesses x $12K avg annual consulting/strategy spend total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 35% (AI-enabled automation & SaaS substitution for consulting).

Key trends driving demand: LLM capability growth -- dramatically better contextual reasoning & long-context handling enables complex, multi-step consulting tasks.; RAG and vector DB adoption -- reliable grounding of model outputs in customer documents reduces hallucinations, making automation palatable.; SaaS takeover of services spend -- companies increasingly buy software over bespoke consulting to operationalize best practices.; Composable agent frameworks -- allow rapid assembly of workflows that mimic consultant processes (data ingest, analysis, recommendation, execution)..

Key competitors include OpenAI — ChatGPT Enterprise, Microsoft 365 Copilot, UiPath, McKinsey & Company (traditional consulting), Upwork (freelancers / independent consultants).

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