Carl Erhard

A Bain partner on where AI has already changed consulting work, which roles it creates, and what he now expects from applicants.

What an AI consulting project consists of: recognizing fragmentation, building an ontology, and deciding which calls you are willing to delegate.

Five methods for planning a working week with a language model, from multi-dimensional prioritization to using the model as a critic.

A system prompt built in layers, from success criteria to role, context and verification, with every step shown as working text.

National authorities have enforced Article 4 of the AI Act since August 2026, in a lighter form. The penalty is indirect, which is why the duty is easy to underestimate.

Habits for checking what a model gives you: classify the claim, compare models, make the model attack its answer, verify every citation.