AI isn’t killing consulting. It’s killing time as a proxy for value

&ldquo;Why am I paying a consultant for something AI can do in 15 minutes?&rdquo; I&rsquo;ve heard variations of that question several times over the past few months. On the face of it, it&rsquo;s a perfectly reasonable one. Generative AI can draft documents, analyse data, write code and create presentations in a fraction of the time they once took. If the work now takes minutes instead of hours,…