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One piece a week on AI strategy for professional services firms. What’s working, what isn’t, where margin is moving.

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YC warns founders off work that turns on human judgment, because it can’t be scaled. That’s exactly the work your firm hands over unbilled.
From YC Published the Playbook for Replacing Your Firm.
“Biglaw is like an ocean liner. Because of longstanding culture, staffing models, and compensation, they are locked into a cycle where efficiency doesn’t help the bottom line.” Conrad Everhard, founding partner at Flatiron Partners.
From Your Team Won’t Cannibalize Their Own Work.
“Partners are talking about AI but aren’t quite sure where to start.” Jody Padar wrote that about accounting firms. Every vertical I work in has the same sentence in it.
From You’ve Done the Margin Math. Now What?.