83% More Projects Per Consultant
An 8-consultant boutique firm deployed AI research and deliverable automation that allowed each consultant to handle 83% more client projects — tripling revenue without adding headcount.
2 hrs
Research phase
↓ from 12 hrs
5.5/mo
Projects per consultant
↑ 83%
+210%
Revenue growth
18 months
9.2x
First-year ROI
The Challenge
Meridian's consultants were talented strategic thinkers, but 40% of their time was consumed by research, data gathering, and formatting deliverables. They could only take on 3 projects per consultant per quarter. Growth meant hiring more consultants — an expensive, slow process with significant quality risk.
What We Built
We built a research agent connected to industry databases, academic sources, and web data that generates structured research briefs in 2 hours instead of 12. A separate deliverable pipeline uses Meridian's best historical work as training data to generate first-draft reports, presentations, and proposals in the firm's voice and format.
Results
“I used to feel guilty about the hours we spent on research. Now our consultants spend their time on the high-value strategic work they were hired for. The AI does the heavy lifting on information gathering.”
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