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Future Works and the strategy consultancies
Strategy firms sit upstream of us, not against us. They answer what to do and why; we are the execution engine for what comes after: AI agents in production on twelve-week, outcome-staked cycles, converting an approved value case into a changed operation inside the first quarter. This page lays out who does what, firm by firm, fairly.
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The honest framing
The gap is not the strategy. It is what happens after.
Most AI transformations do not fail at the deck. They fail in the eighteen months after the deck, when the recommendation meets the operation and nobody's fee depends on the number coming true. The strategy consultancies on this page are good at their job. Ours starts where theirs ends.
Future Works was not built as a consultancy that adopted AI. The delivery engine is built from AI agents; senior experts, named in your contract, direct the agents and answer for the outcome. That inversion is why a cycle ships in twelve weeks, and why we can stake fees on the same number the strategy promised.
The big three
Full pages for McKinsey, BCG, and Bain.
Future Works and McKinsey
The reference point for corporate strategy, with QuantumBlack on AI. We ship what the engagement recommends.
Read the full page →Future Works and BCG
Frames the play, with BCG X building alongside. We run the cycles that make the play operational.
Read the full page →Future Works and Bain
Results discipline we recognize. Bain sets the value agenda; our fees are staked to the same number.
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The strategy boutiques, and where we plug in.
Each of these firms earns its seat at a different table. What they share is that their best work ends in an approved case for change, and an approved case for change is the raw material of a Future Works cycle.
Future Works and Oliver Wyman
A global strategy consultancy with particular depth in financial services, risk, and operations. When a bank, insurer, or asset-heavy operator needs the target state of a risk or operations function defined, Oliver Wyman is often the firm in the room.
Where we plug in: the defined target state becomes a cycle scope. Our agents and experts convert the recommended operating model into production systems, with the value baselined against the case the engagement made.
Future Works and Kearney
An operations-minded strategy firm with a long heritage in supply chain, procurement, and manufacturing. Kearney's work tends to land close to the physical operation: allocation, sourcing, network design, cost programs.
Where we plug in: that is exactly the terrain our agents work best on. A Kearney operations diagnosis maps cleanly onto agentic cycles for allocation, freight, and planning, with the KPI delta verified by the same operators the diagnosis studied.
Future Works and L.E.K. Consulting
A strategy consultancy with strong franchises in healthcare, life sciences, industrials, and private equity. L.E.K.'s value-creation and commercial due diligence work gives its recommendations an investor-grade number attached.
Where we plug in: an investor-grade number is precisely what a cycle needs. The value-creation case sets the baseline; our agents and experts ship against it inside the holding period, with fees staked to the same number.
Future Works and Roland Berger
The leading strategy consultancy of European origin, strong in industrials, automotive, and operations transformation. Roland Berger's restructuring and performance work sits close to the P&L of asset-heavy operators.
Where we plug in: asset-heavy operators are who we build for. A Roland Berger performance program defines the levers; our cycles pull them, one instrumented workflow at a time, on outcome-staked terms.
Future Works and Strategy&
PwC's strategy arm, built from the former Booz & Company. Strategy& brings board-level strategy inside a Big 4 relationship, with PwC's assurance and tax depth one door down.
Where we plug in: downstream of the strategy, as the build partner PwC's independence posture often cannot be.
Read the full PwC comparison →Future Works and EY-Parthenon
EY's strategy arm, built from the former Parthenon Group. EY-Parthenon runs strategy and value-creation work inside the EY network, with the consulting practice available for delivery.
Where we plug in: as the single accountable team from value case to production, collapsing the strategy-to-delivery handoff.
Read the full EY comparison →Future Works is independent of every firm on this page. Nothing here implies a partnership; where a formal relationship exists, we say so explicitly.
The execution engine
What the humans do all day,
and what the agents do.
Agents do the production work
Allocation, planning, drafting, monitoring, reconciliation: the volume work runs on AI agents in production, instrumented against a baseline your stakeholders sign.
Named experts direct and answer
The senior experts on the SOW are the people in the room. They design the logic, direct the agents, and answer for the number at cycle close. Substitutions need your sign-off.
Fees ride on the outcome
A portion of every cycle's fee is staked on validated outcomes against a Finance-approved baseline, with delivery auditable end to end. The risk is shared, not shifted.
Proof
AI operationalized at Fortune 100 scale.
We have stood up instrumented operations and shipped production AI inside asset-heavy operators across real-world industries. The mechanism is the same on every engagement: a named pod, agents owning the volume, and a baseline your stakeholders sign.
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Bring us the approved deck.
Twenty-five minute call. We map your strategy's priority initiatives to a Cycle 1 sketch: baseline mechanics, cycle scope, the fastest-payback levers. No slides, no obligation.
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