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The citability gap: why most consulting firms are invisible to AI.
Median citability across management consulting is 38 — the lowest of any cohort we track. The mechanism, and what the top decile is doing differently.
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Reported by Meghan Eustice · Jul 9, 2026
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median citability, consulting
Consulting has always been an authority business. The Index shows most firms have not translated that authority into anything an answer engine can quote.
What breaks it
Thought leadership PDFs, author-less bylines, and no schema. The result: real expertise, unreadable to machines.
What the leaders do
Atlas Strategy Group publishes structured research notes with entity attribution — and cites its own data on category pages.