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McKinsey Leans on AI to Make PowerPoints, Draft Proposals

by JumpCrisscross on 6/15/25, 8:05 PM with 11 comments

  • by xt00 on 6/15/25, 10:59 PM

    Makes sense — the people getting the presentation will just use AI to summarize it :)

  • by afavour on 6/15/25, 8:43 PM

    2025 winner for “most on-brand revelation”

  • by aussiegreenie on 6/15/25, 9:41 PM

    Ah, yes, the $1,000,000 AI slide deck.

    NOW WITH MORE BANALITY.

  • by smartbit on 6/15/25, 9:40 PM

  • by NoPicklez on 6/16/25, 7:02 AM

    The truth is that basically all consultancies including most office jobs will be using AI to help make powerpoints, proposals and reports.

    No different to anyone else using it help them code, write their own articles, emails, proposals, business cases etc

    How this is made specific to McKinsey is beyond me, given that Microsoft has CoPilot built into its office suite everything should be doing this already.

  • by fshafique on 6/16/25, 1:21 AM

    Does somebody have a breakdown of an analyst's tasks and the percentage of time or money spent on each? Was it 50% data gathering, analysis, and projections, and 50% on making PowerPoints?

    And anyone seen a McKinsey slide? How information dense are these things?

  • by huksley on 6/16/25, 9:31 AM

    Tangentially, is there a tool to automatically generate or change Google Slides? I think Google AI still can't do it.

  • by cosmicgadget on 6/15/25, 9:30 PM

    If formulaic slide decks weren't bad enough, we're going to get ones specifically designed to be formulaic.

    Eh whatever as long as the bot respects minimum font size.

  • by darth_avocado on 6/16/25, 2:17 AM

    At the end of the day, it’s just made up nonsense that costs millions of dollars. I’d rather have ChatGPT make it up than fresh out of college “Senior Consultant”.

  • by satisfice on 6/16/25, 7:50 AM

    I wonder what business these big consultants are really in. I can’t believe anyone takes them seriously. So what is it? Money laundering? Kickbacks? Maybe they are a massive excuse manufacturing and blame displacement engine?

    Now they use AI to produce even sloppier slop than the slop they slopped non-stop in elder days. The bullshit industry is really getting efficient.