Fulfilling the AI productivity promise for consulting.
DeckAI gives consulting teams the skills, templates and review workflows to turn Claude into a reliable deck-production partner that meet the standards of your firm.
Most consulting firms are missing the real AI leverage opportunity.
Associates are getting faster, but principal and director time isn't being unlocked. The burden has just moved upstream.
What's driving the opportunity
- AI can now accelerate the entire recommendation production cycle — research, synthesis, drafting, slide creation.
- Tier-1 firms are investing heavily in proprietary AI tooling and workflow redesign.
- Client expectations are growing — they can use AI to get answers to complex problems more quickly too.
What's causing the missed uplift
- Internal workflows are often neglected compared to client work.
- Uneven proficiency and adoption of AI tools among associates.
- Gaps in enabling systems and standards.
- Speed at the IC level shifts the bottleneck to leader review and stakeholder alignment.
Quality and format issues keep the AI upside from being realized.
Unverified claims and errors to catch before any client sees them.
Material the team cannot explain, defend, or stand behind.
Quality checking falls to the most senior, most expensive people.
AI skills encoding the best-practice consulting workflow.
Looks like a Web 2.0 site, not a client-ready presentation.
Reformatting eats Associate hours or burns tokens.
Explaining changes to Claude is hard, due to UI limits.
Flexible templates in an easy-to-edit format (Gridd).
Skills for Claude across all phases of deck delivery.
Impact — Clear context and objectives for the team and for Claude.
A better way of laying out consulting slides.
Gridd layouts do the formatting Claude and PowerPoint struggle with — auto-expanding templates that look client-ready out of the box.
griddtemplates.comComparing filling an expanding Gridd template using the custom prompt versus using Claude for PowerPoint to generate a new slide.
We take set-up and rollout off your shoulders.
Set up
- Train champions
- Help set up custom template(s)
- One round of skill customization to reflect how you work
- Support of infosec assessment
Rollout
- Pre-recorded trainings
- Live Q&A
- Hands-on support
Support
- Continued support to ensure smooth operation of Gridd PowerPoint add-ins
If required, we can perform an end-to-end, hands-on process and system maturity diagnostic as part of a separately scoped consulting engagement.
We've been consultants, then built the client communication toolset for McKinsey.
Zsigmond Fajth
- Led development of McKinsey's client communication toolset
- Won McKinsey's Global Innovation Competition
- Oversaw 9 product teams, reporting bi-weekly to McKinsey's global CIO
- Spent 5 years as consultant
Sandor Nagy
- Tech Tribe Lead — built team from 6 to 120 strong
- Co-developed the McKinsey innovation winning tool Pyramid
- >20 consulting projects in 8+ countries, 15+ years
Andrew Chandler
- Led design of McKinsey's custom toolsets in PowerPoint, Excel, Word
- Managed enterprise-level education apps with 2m users
- Independent consultant on and off since 2011
Ready to actually ship the productivity gains?
Let's walk you through the skills, the Gridd templates, and what a 3-week rollout looks like at your firm.
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