Lighthouse

The Outdated Model

The management consulting industry — a $1.3T market — is built on episodic, human-driven audits. Firms like McKinsey, Bain, and Deloitte deploy armies of analysts, spend weeks onboarding, and then deliver static slide decks that surface inefficiency at a single point in time. This model is slow, expensive, and fundamentally mismatched to how inefficiency actually works.

Waste in cloud infrastructure, SaaS sprawl, financial leakage, and workforce productivity isn't episodic — it's continuous and compounding.

Our Thesis

The consulting market is ripe for disruption because inefficiency requires continuous detection and intervention, not one-off audits. Lighthouse introduces always-on, agentic consultants that replace episodic human consulting with autonomous, real-time optimization across the enterprise.

Just as Palantir replaced static reports with living, data-driven operational platforms, Lighthouse is doing the same to consulting:

Key Capabilities

Knowledge Transfer: Shrink consultant onboarding from 6 weeks → 3 days.

Cloud Optimization: Flag and eliminate idle resources in real time.

SaaS Spend Auditor: Continuously deprovision unused licenses.

Financial & Productivity Auditors: Surface leakage and bottlenecks as they emerge, not months later.

The New Model

For clients, this flips the model: instead of paying millions for a one-time consulting engagement, they subscribe to Lighthouse for a continuous "McKinsey-grade" audit, delivered by autonomous agents at a fraction of the cost.

For the industry, it reframes consulting from episodic services into a scalable SaaS product.

The Opportunity

The opportunity is enormous: capturing even 1% of global consulting spend ($13B+) puts Lighthouse at unicorn scale, while broadening into cloud, SaaS, and government markets pushes the ceiling much higher.

Traditional consulting firms are constrained by their human capital model — they can only grow as fast as they can hire and train consultants. Lighthouse's AI-native approach removes this constraint, enabling us to serve thousands of clients simultaneously with the same level of expertise.

Why Now?

Three converging trends make this the perfect time for disruption:

1. AI Capabilities: LLMs have reached the sophistication needed to understand complex business contexts and provide strategic recommendations.

2. Digital Transformation: Every enterprise system now has APIs, making continuous monitoring and optimization technically feasible.

3. Economic Pressure: Rising costs and efficiency demands are forcing companies to rethink their consulting spend.

The Future of Consulting

We envision a world where every company has access to continuous, world-class consulting expertise. Where inefficiencies are caught and fixed in real-time, not discovered months later in a PowerPoint deck. Where institutional knowledge is preserved and transferred seamlessly, not lost when employees leave.

This isn't just about replacing consultants — it's about fundamentally reimagining how organizations optimize themselves. It's about making excellence continuous, not episodic.

Welcome to the future of consulting. Welcome to Lighthouse.