The citability gap: why most consulting firms are invisible to AI.

Meghan Eustice

Median citability across management consulting is 38 — the lowest of any cohort we track. The mechanism, and what the top decile is doing differently.

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.

Reported by

Meghan Eustice

Managing Editor

Editorial gatekeeper. Every story, benchmark, and index release clears her desk first.

The citability gap: why most consulting firms are invisible to AI.

What breaks it

What the leaders do

Only 4.9% of Wealth Management Firms Show Up When AI Answers "Who's the Best" — Here's What That Means for the Other 95%

Off The Record: Why 96.2% of Top Staffing Firms Don't Exist in AI Search

The 99.9% Blind Spot: Why Almost No Wealth Manager Exists in AI Search