Introducing Management Consultant AI Prompts — 50 Skills That Refuse What Would Hurt Your Client Trust

There are a lot of "AI for consultants" prompt packs floating around. Most of them have the same problem: they're written by someone who hasn't sat through a real steerco at 11pm trying to defend a recommendation the CRO doesn't want to hear.

I just shipped a pack that fixes that. Management Consultant AI Prompts — 50 production-grade skills for working consultants. $19 one-time, lifetime updates, works in any AI.

You can grab it here: Management Consultant AI Prompts.

This post is about what's actually different.

The thing generic strategy GPTs get wrong

If you ask ChatGPT or Claude.ai web to "give me a Porter's Five Forces analysis," you'll get something that looks correct from 20 feet away. You won't get something you'd actually paste into a board deck.

The failure modes are predictable:

• Fabricated citations: a confident-sounding "per McKinsey Quarterly, March 2023" article that doesn't exist
• Mis-attributed frameworks: Porter's Five Forces dated 1985 (it's HBR 1979) or Minto's Pyramid Principle dated 2002 (it's 1987, expanded 1996)
• Invented case studies: "We helped a Fortune 500 retailer reduce churn 23%" — no client, no source, no provenance
• Misapplied frameworks: "Blue Ocean Strategy" name-dropped to mean "find a niche" without using the actual ERRC grid + value innovation principles
• Generic recommendations: "improve communication" as a deliverable

Any one of these in a board deck damages the consultant's credibility. Repeatedly, fatally.

What this pack does differently

Every skill is reviewed against a profession profile that documents the real source of every framework, regulator, and authoritative publication. The reviewer doesn't pass a skill until citations match the canon.

When the reviewer ran against the first 5 drafted skills, it caught:

• A Minto edition date that was off by one publication generation
• An Ansoff book title typo (one character — would've embarrassed anyone shipping it to a strategy client)
• An AARRR framework attribution that was anachronistic (the named org didn't exist yet in the cited year)

Zero of the 50 final skills shipped with fabricated sources.

The refuse-by-design feature

Generic prompt packs say yes to everything. This pack has skill-specific refuse conditions:

• m-and-a-target-screen refuses and routes to counsel if you paste material non-public information. The skill explicitly stops if your input includes a known-confidential deal.
• linkedin-post-from-engagement has a multi-layer NDA gate. It refuses to use the client name, deal size, attributable metrics, or any identifying detail. The skill walks you through an NDA-safety final check before posting.
• weekly-status-update refuses to soften a Red status into Amber to avoid escalation — surfaces the disagreement instead of complying.
• timesheet-narrative refuses to round up hours or pad billable narratives.
• engagement-letter-section refuses to draft indemnification, liability cap, or IP-assignment clauses — those route to counsel. Carries a "NOT LEGAL ADVICE" header in every output.

When a skill detects misuse, it surfaces the issue rather than quietly producing output that would damage your reputation.

What you get

50 skills across 8 workflow groups:

Group	Count	Example skills
Synthesis & deliverables	8	exec-summary-pyramid, one-pager-recommendation, board-deck-outline
Frameworks & analysis	9	mece-issue-tree, porter-five-forces, mckinsey-7s-diagnostic
Client communications	7	weekly-status-update, steering-committee-prep, difficult-message-rewrite
Discovery & diagnostic	6	discovery-interview-summary, stakeholder-map, problem-statement-canvas
Engagement management	6	engagement-letter-section, change-request-memo, conflict-of-interest-check
Business development	6	proposal-cover-letter, credentials-deck-tailor, thought-leadership-outline
Industry deep-dives	4	industry-snapshot-brief, m-and-a-target-screen, regulatory-landscape-summary
Personal & practice ops	4	weekly-personal-retro, billable-utilization-tracker-narrative, pipeline-review-prep

A setup wizard that captures your practice profile (firm, jurisdiction, voice, frameworks you cite most often, words you never want in output) — every other skill reads it.

Four download formats in one purchase:

• Claude Cowork plugin (Claude Code or Cowork desktop)
• Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork plugin (sideload-ready)
• Documentation pack (README, install guides, cheat sheet, workflow guide)
• Raw .md prompts (paste into ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude.ai web, Copilot Chat)

Who this is for

• Independent consultants billing $150-$500/hr running solo or 2-5 person practices
• Boutique-firm partners and principals
• Senior managers at Big 3 (McKinsey, BCG, Bain), Big 4, or Tier-2 firms (Strategy&, A.T. Kearney, L.E.K., Oliver Wyman)
• Post-MBA strategy consultants 1-5 years in
• Ex-consultants in corporate strategy / chief-of-staff roles

Not for: junior analysts without client interaction yet, or specialty consulting (M&A advisory, restructuring) — those domains have their own conventions.

Try before you buy

Two free options:

• The 90-Minute AI Audit — one prompt that scans your week and finds the 5 highest-leverage AI plays
• 7-in-1 Profession Prompt Sampler — one production prompt per profession; the consulting prompt is a representative example of what's in the full pack

If those click, the full pack is $19 with a 30-day refund. Email me if anything doesn't earn its keep.

— Alex Lowe, The AI Career Lab