Business is Good with Chris Cooper

94: The End of Consultants


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Big-ticket consulting is wobbling. McKinsey, Accenture, Deloitte, EY, KPMG—together they’ve announced tens of thousands of layoffs while clients feed generative-AI the questions they once paid armies of analysts to answer. In this episode, Chris Cooper unpacks the coming “consulting crash,” explains why AI has punctured the information moat, and predicts that only one in ten traditional consultants will survive.

But advice-giving won’t vanish. Instead, it splits:




  • Mentors deliver high-level strategy—now super-charged by AI that runs instant market sims.



  • Coaches drive execution—now backed by 24/7 GPT check-ins that break work into bite-sized actions.



Using Two-Brain Business’s own Simple Six Mentor GPT as a live example, Chris shows how solo experts can scale to a million-dollar practice without bloated overhead, while clients build skills faster than ever.


Whether you’re a consultant, coach, founder, or policymaker, this episode reveals how to pair human judgment with machine leverage in the new Augmentation Age.


Key Takeaways / Timestamps

0:00 – 3:15 Peter Thiel’s “short consulting” quote


3:15 – 10:30 Layoffs & margin squeeze: data from McKinsey, Accenture, etc.


10:30 – 16:45 Why governments still hire consultants—and why that shrinks


16:45 – 24:00 Mentorship vs. coaching vs. AI augmentation


24:00 – 32:00 Live demo: Simple Six Mentor GPT at BusinessIsGood.com


32:00 – 36:00 Action plan for founders & advisors in the Augmentation Age

Connect with Chris Cooper:

Website - https://businessisgood.com/

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