Entity Clarity Report: Professional Services & Consulting
Summary
This January 2026 Consulting baseline has been superseded. Its narrative stated coverage of 50 firms, but its authoritative Index contains 49 entities. The original PDF is preserved as the historical record; the current report uses the corrected registry and a 48-entity matched panel. Read the current Professional Services & Consulting report.
Methodology
Historical baseline methodology
This page remains available as the January 2026 baseline record. Its original PDF is preserved unchanged. The governed longitudinal methodology now appears in the current report under methodology ID eci-ecc-v1.
The baseline narrative stated 50 firms, while the authoritative Index contains 49. This discrepancy is corrected in the current report and in the dated correction notice below.
Findings
Historical findings
The baseline established the sector's initial posture and capability map. Its entity-level findings are preserved in the historical PDF, while the current report tests how that map changed through 30 July 2026.
Entity-level ECC values are no longer reproduced on the web.
Landscape
Historical baseline framing
The January report framed Professional Services & Consulting around the durability of judgment, accountability, and institutional permission as AI reduces the scarcity of interpretation and execution. That thesis remains historical context for the current longitudinal analysis.
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Archetypes
Historical baseline archetypes
The January report described blocked prestige firms, defensive interpreters, execution-oriented firms, transitional authority holders, and authority compounders. These categories are retained as historical framing without entity-level web scores.
Index
Authoritative historical Index
The January entity-level Index is preserved in the original baseline PDF. It contains 49 entities, despite the narrative's stated count of 50. Entity-level ECC values are intentionally not reproduced on this superseded web page.
Strategic Implications
Historical strategic implications
The baseline argued that AI was decomposing consulting value by function and that judgment and accountability would remain strategically scarce. The current report carries that thesis into capital allocation and M&A diligence without treating ECC as a measure of service or investment quality.
Full Report
Historical baseline and current report
Download the original January 2026 baseline PDF.
Read the current Consulting report or download its authoritative PDF.