# AI-Powered Search for Consultants: Two Jobs, Five Platforms

> Discover which AI search platforms fit consulting workflows & run a 20-minute visibility test. Arjun Karnik shows you how to get cited and stay fresh.

**Published:** 2026-09-04 | **Updated:** 2026-10-17 | **Author:** mihir
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*Written by: Arjun Karnik, Growth Marketing Specialist | Last updated: October 16, 2026*

## Key Takeaways

- AI-powered search for consultants splits into two jobs: using AI tools for research and appearing in AI answers when buyers ask for consultants.
- 71% of B2B buyers use AI chatbots for research, and 69% switch vendors based on AI recommendations, so visibility now shapes vendor selection.
- Five platforms cover practical needs: ChatGPT for broad work, Perplexity for cited research, Glean for internal search, AlphaSense for market intelligence, and Hebbia for multi-document analysis.
- A 20-minute visibility test using buyer-language prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews shows whether your firm is mentioned, cited, or absent.
- Arjun Karnik runs a public test lab that documents what gets consulting firms mentioned, cited, and recommended in AI answers.

[See How Your Firm Shows Up In AI Answers](https://www.akarnik.com/demo)

## Which AI Platforms Fit Consulting Workflows?

No single platform fits every consulting job. Your choice depends on whether you are doing external research, searching internal documents, or trying to appear in the answers buyers receive. Five platforms cover the practical range.

- **Perplexity ([perplexity.ai](https://perplexity.ai)):** Web research with inline citations. Every answer ships with visible source links, which makes it the most auditable platform for seeing what gets cited and why. [AI search engines like Perplexity now drive over 40% of B2B product-discovery interactions](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/best-perplexity-ai-seo-tools/), and its retrieval pipeline applies a documented recency boost as a distinct ranking stage.
- **Glean ([glean.com](https://glean.com)):** Internal knowledge search across a firm's own documents. Glean connects to a consultancy's existing tools, such as Slack, Drive, Notion, and email, and retrieves across all of them in a single query. The use case is internal discovery.
- **AlphaSense ([alpha-sense.com](https://alpha-sense.com)):** Market and financial intelligence. AlphaSense indexes earnings calls, broker research, regulatory filings, and trade press. It suits consultants who need to synthesize market data quickly.
- **Hebbia ([hebbia.com](https://hebbia.com)):** Analysis across large document sets. Hebbia supports multi-document synthesis for due diligence, contract review, and large-scale research projects where the source material runs to hundreds of files.
- **ChatGPT:** The all-rounder. It covers research, drafting, analysis, and, with web search enabled, live retrieval with citations. [ChatGPT is the main chatbot for 73% of software buyers at the discovery stage](https://marketsplash.com/b2b-buyer-ai-research-statistics), which makes it a primary surface where buyers form their shortlists.

## What AI Is McKinsey Using?

McKinsey uses two AI systems that serve different purposes: Lilli for internal knowledge retrieval and Microsoft Copilot for productivity workflows.

[Lilli launched in July 2023, indexes more than 100,000 internal documents, and by mid-2026 roughly three-quarters of McKinsey employees had adopted it, feeding the system more than 500,000 prompts per month.](https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/mckinsey-consultants-letting-technology-over-180753140.html) [Lilli scans McKinsey's knowledge base in response to a user question, surfaces five to seven of the most relevant pieces of content, summarizes key points, and identifies subject-matter experts.](https://findausecase.com/use-cases/mckinsey-s-firmwide-knowledge-copilot-lilli) It operates in two modes: one for internal knowledge and one for external sources. [McKinsey CFO Yuval Atsmon reported close to 95% weekly user adoption of Lilli internally.](https://reuters.com/info-pages/transcript/aa71465a-a087-11ec-8680-73c03cf16654/b1c9fd44-b431-11ec-90ef-133914fde813/454af57c-7f3b-11f1-bfdd-fffa6ec846b5)

The lesson for boutique consultancies is to focus on visibility, not replication of Lilli. The tool is not the moat. McKinsey's buyers are not asking Lilli who to hire. They are asking ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. That is where the vendor-selection event happens, and that is the second job most consultants are losing.

Before you can compete for that second job, you need the right tools for the first. The five platforms below cover the practical range of consulting research work.

## The Five Platforms By Job-To-Be-Done

If you want a single view of which platform fits which job, the table below maps each tool to the work it does best. Use it to match a platform to your practice instead of defaulting to ChatGPT for everything.

| Platform | Job It Does | Best For | One-Line Capability Note |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ChatGPT | Research, drafting, live web retrieval | All-purpose consulting work and buyer-facing visibility | Broad capability with web search enabled; primary discovery surface for many B2B buyers |
| Perplexity | Web research with cited sources | Market research and competitive intelligence with traceable sourcing | Every answer includes visible citations and applies a documented recency boost |
| Glean | Internal knowledge search | Firms with documents spread across multiple tools and platforms | Retrieves across Slack, Drive, email, and other connected tools in a single query |
| AlphaSense | Market and financial intelligence | Strategy and financial consultants needing synthesized market data | Indexes earnings calls, broker research, regulatory filings, and trade press |
| Hebbia | Multi-document analysis | Due diligence, contract review, and large-scale document synthesis | Built for analysis across hundreds of source files simultaneously |

## How Consultants Use AI Search Tools For Research

Consultants tend to use AI search tools across four practical use cases.

**Brand and AI visibility monitoring.** Platforms like [Profound](https://strategi.is/blogs/profound-review-what-it-does-what-it-costs-and-what-it-wont-do) track how a firm appears across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot. They measure mentions, citations, sentiment, and competitive share of voice. [Profound measures AI visibility and does not place a firm in an answer.](https://ansvisor.com/ai-visibility-glossary/profound) Monitoring provides diagnosis, while other work handles treatment.

**Automated research.** ChatGPT with web search enabled and Perplexity both handle rapid synthesis of market conditions, competitor positioning, and client background. [53% of B2B buyers say chatbot research is more productive than traditional search](https://marketsplash.com/b2b-buyer-ai-research-statistics). Consultants using these tools for client prep compress work that previously took days into hours.

[](https://www.akarnik.com/demo)**The same question asked of ChatGPT, including the search it ran to answer it. Two surfaces, two answers, one query.**

**Enterprise document search.** Glean and Hebbia address the internal retrieval problem. They help teams find the right prior work, the right expert, or the right data point inside a firm's own knowledge base. [Before Lilli, even senior McKinsey colleagues typically spent two weeks researching and identifying the right experts to build an initial engagement plan.](https://findausecase.com/use-cases/mckinsey-s-firmwide-knowledge-copilot-lilli)

**Proprietary knowledge assistants.** AlphaSense and purpose-built internal tools give consultants access to structured, curated intelligence that general-purpose assistants cannot reach. This includes earnings transcripts, regulatory filings, and proprietary research that sit behind paywalls or inside firm systems.

## How To Run The 20-Minute AI Visibility Test

The following five-step test takes roughly 20 minutes and produces a dated baseline. Run it now while answers still move quickly.

1. Open ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and a Google search that triggers an AI Overview. Use clean sessions with fresh chats, no history, and logged-out or separate accounts so personalization does not skew the results.
2. Run the buyer-language prompt, such as "who are the best consultants for [your specialty]", plus two or three variations a real client would type. [Category and problem prompts, where you compete against every other option the engine knows, reveal the real picture.](https://justinmckelvey.com/blog/track-brand-mentions-in-ai)
3. Record whether your firm is mentioned, cited, or absent, and who appears instead. Note the position. [A brand appearing first in an AI answer is 3.1 times more likely to be clicked than one in position five or later.](https://vismore.ai/blog/track-brand-mentions-ai-search)
4. Repeat with a comparison prompt, such as "[your firm] vs [competitor]", and a recommendation prompt, such as "recommend a consultant for [specific problem]". These prompts turn concerns like "my competitor shows up in ChatGPT and I don't" into visible, specific gaps.
5. Screenshot and date every result so you have a baseline to measure against. [AI citation sources shift 40 to 60% month-to-month](https://pulsarplatform.com/guides/how-to-monitor-your-brand-in-chatgpt-perplexity-gemini), so a single undated check goes stale within weeks and cannot support trend analysis.

For a full diagnostic rather than a baseline check, read [AI Visibility For Consultants: The 20-Minute Diagnostic](https://www.akarnik.com/blog/ai-visibility-consultants-guide/).

[](https://www.akarnik.com/demo)**The live AI Overview for the query, and the sites it chose to cite. This is the answer you are trying to appear inside.**

[Run The 20-Minute Visibility Test With Arjun](https://www.akarnik.com/demo)

## Why Freshness Decides Who Gets Recommended

[Seer Interactive's July 2026 study analyzed 7,683 pages and 47,097 citations across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.](https://parse.gl/blog/content-freshness-ai-visibility) It found that 75% of cited pages had been updated within the last year, and that consistently cited pages averaged under six months since their last update. The page you refreshed beats the page you wrote. A stale website loses to a refreshed one because the retrieval layer filters by recency before it evaluates quality.

[](https://www.akarnik.com/demo)**Three quarters of cited pages were updated inside a year, and the consistently cited ones averaged under six months. The page you refresh beats the page you write.**

[G2's March 2026 survey of 1,076 B2B software buyers and decision-makers across North America, EMEA, and APAC found that 69% chose a different vendor than the one they had planned on based on what an assistant told them.](https://marketsplash.com/b2b-buyer-ai-research-statistics) That switching happens before the buyer visits any website. The assistant's answer, built from whatever sources it retrieved most recently, becomes the shortlist.

[](https://www.akarnik.com/demo)**In under a year the starting point for B2B software research crossed over. More buyers now begin with a chatbot than with Google.**

In Arjun's own tests on his site, pages can drop 78% to 99% in two months without updates. That decay stays invisible unless you instrument for it, and by the time it appears in a monthly report the position has already gone. Freshness functions as ongoing work that keeps a firm in the answer instead of letting it fall out.

For enterprise platform options that address the AI search services landscape more broadly, see [AI Search Services: The 2026 Guide To Enterprise Platforms](https://www.akarnik.com/blog/ai-search-services-guide/).

## How Arjun Karnik's Test Lab Supports Consultants

Arjun Karnik is a twenty-year tech marketer and former B2B software CMO who runs a public test lab for generative engine optimization under his own name. He documents what gets a business mentioned, cited, and recommended in AI answers, with receipts published and misses included. His work focuses on experiments rather than agency retainers, tools, or courses.

The proof sits in the ecosystem itself. When you ask an AI assistant about these topics, you can see who gets cited. The system being documented is the same system producing the visibility, which makes the method self-proving.

On Arjun's site, new articles reached thousands of monthly Google impressions within weeks. The GEO subfolder went from zero to the only source of new impressions on the domain in 60 days, based on his Google Search Console data. Pages rewritten to match extracted ChatGPT fan-out queries earned citations while control pages did not. Relabelling a jargon-heavy page into buyer language produced citations within weeks of that specific change.

The production cadence runs via [AI Growth Agent](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/ai-search-visibility-strategy/) at 5 to 8 autonomous actions a day, including new articles and updates, on autopilot. Arjun discloses this partnership. The 78% to 99% decay range over two months reflects his own site tests, not a general law of the web. Impression-decay tripwires auto-queue updates in AI Growth Agent when performance drops, so content repairs itself on a loop instead of waiting for a quarterly audit.

[](https://www.akarnik.com/demo)**The publishing cadence, running. New articles and refreshes sit in one queue, and pages that have started to slide get flagged and rewritten without anyone auditing a spreadsheet.**

The AI Growth Agent platform has produced documented results for other clients, including [Leva Sleep, which closed substantial deals in under three weeks from buyers who discovered the brand through AI Growth Agent articles](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/best-automated-keyword-research-tool/). Those results belong to AI Growth Agent and are attributed accordingly.

[Explore Arjun's AI Visibility Test Lab](https://www.akarnik.com/demo)

## Conclusion: Run The Test, Pick The Tools, Keep It Fresh

AI-powered search for consultants involves two jobs. The first uses AI tools such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Glean, AlphaSense, and Hebbia to deliver better research, faster. The second focuses on appearing in the AI answers buyers receive when they ask for a consultant like you. Many consultants solve the first job while losing deals on the second.

The five platforms in the comparison table above cover the practical range of the first job, organized by what each one actually does. The 20-minute, five-step visibility test gives you a dated baseline on the second job, using buyer-language prompts that reveal real gaps instead of branded prompts that flatter.

Freshness drives whether you stay recommended. [As the Seer Interactive study cited earlier showed, consistently cited pages averaged under six months since their last update.](https://parse.gl/blog/content-freshness-ai-visibility) A one-time project does not hold. The game resets weekly, and the consultant whose content is refreshed on a loop keeps the position over the one whose library goes stale.

Run the visibility test, then pick the tools that fit your practice, and treat freshness as ongoing work. Outcomes vary, yet consultants who decode this layer early gain the same structural advantage that early SEO adopters held two decades ago, and that window remains open.

[Start Your AI Visibility Plan With Arjun](https://www.akarnik.com/demo)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### What Is The Difference Between Using AI Search Tools And Appearing In AI Search Answers?

Using AI search tools means deploying platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Glean, AlphaSense, or Hebbia to do consulting work faster and better. That work includes researching markets, synthesizing documents, drafting deliverables, and identifying expertise. Appearing in AI search answers is a separate problem. It means being mentioned, cited, or recommended when a prospective client asks an AI assistant for help finding a consultant like you. The first job improves your output. The second job determines whether buyers find you before they find a competitor. Most consultants have invested in the first and ignored the second, which is why a competitor can show up in ChatGPT for a buyer's query while a more capable firm goes unmentioned. Both jobs require deliberate effort, and they rely on different tools, content strategies, and measurement approaches.

### How Often Do AI Answers Change, And Does That Affect Whether My Firm Gets Recommended?

AI answers are non-deterministic and change frequently. Citation sources shift 40 to 60% month-to-month across platforms, and the same prompt can produce different brand lists from one day to the next. This volatility makes a single spot-check an unreliable baseline. The useful metric is how often your firm appears across repeated runs of the same prompt, in what position, and with what sentiment. For consultants, this means visibility behaves as an ongoing condition rather than a one-time achievement. A page that earns citations today can lose them within weeks if it goes stale, because retrieval systems apply recency as a filter before they evaluate quality. Treating AI visibility as ongoing work, with new content, refreshed pages, and monitored citation patterns, is the only approach that holds a position over time instead of winning it once and losing it quietly.

### Do I Need To Stop Doing Traditional SEO To Focus On AI Visibility?

You do not need to stop traditional SEO to focus on AI visibility. The technical fundamentals, content structure, and quality signals that support traditional SEO also support AI citation. The target and metric change. Traditional SEO aims at rankings on a human-readable list, while generative engine optimization targets citation inside a machine-generated answer. The authority model differs as well. SEO builds authority through backlinks and domain authority, while AI citation rewards topical coverage and content freshness. In practice, content built for AI citation still performs in Google search. Structured, specific, frequently updated pages earn both organic rankings and AI citations. The mistake lies in measuring success only by rank position when the buyer has moved to a channel that does not produce a rank. Adding citation tracking, share of voice across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, and AI referrer monitoring to your existing measurement stack gives you a complete picture of where your content actually works.

### Which AI Platform Should A Boutique Consultancy Prioritize For Visibility?

ChatGPT is the highest-priority surface for most boutique consultancies because it has the largest audience and serves as the primary chatbot for many B2B buyers at the discovery stage. Perplexity is the most useful diagnostic platform because every answer includes visible citations, which makes it straightforward to understand what gets cited and why. Google's AI surfaces, including AI Overviews and AI Mode, have the largest reach of any single platform because they ride on Google's existing search volume. Gemini and Microsoft Copilot are worth including in a quarterly audit. A practical starting point is to run the five-step visibility test across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and a Google search that triggers an AI Overview. You can then focus improvement efforts on the platforms where your buyers are most active and where the gaps are largest. Fixing content structure, freshness, and entity clarity once tends to improve visibility across all platforms at the same time, because the underlying retrieval signals overlap.

### What Does It Actually Mean For A Consulting Firm To Be “Cited” By An AI Assistant?

A citation in an AI answer means the platform linked to your firm's content as a source when constructing its response. A mention means your firm's name appeared in the answer text. A recommendation means the assistant suggested your firm when asked who to hire or which consultant to use. These three levels are distinct and move independently. A firm can be mentioned without any of its pages being cited if the model learned about it from a third-party review site. A page can be cited in an answer that recommends a competitor. A firm can be recommended without a direct link to its site, which shows up in analytics as direct or branded search traffic rather than as a referral from the AI platform. The recommendation level drives revenue, because it marks the moment the buyer's shortlist forms. Monitoring all three levels, including mention rate, citation rate, and recommendation rate, across a stable set of buyer-language prompts gives a consultancy an accurate picture of where it stands and where the gaps sit.

## Read Next

- [AI Visibility for Consultants: Get Recommended by AI](https://www.akarnik.com/blog/ai-visibility-for-consultants/)
- [AI Marketing for Consultants: The Authority-to-Pipeline Play](https://www.akarnik.com/blog/ai-marketing-strategy-consultants/)
- [AI Search Optimization for Consultants: The 5-Layer Playbook](https://www.akarnik.com/blog/ai-search-optimization-consultants/)
- [AI Visibility for Consultants: The 20-Minute Diagnostic](https://www.akarnik.com/blog/ai-visibility-consultants-guide/)
- [Best AI Search Tools for B2B Brands to Win Citations](https://www.akarnik.com/blog/best-ai-search-tools/)

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