the five-second epistemology · the line

there is no mission statement.

The only mission is to not waste your money on bullshit.

that is why the prices are different

Look at any consulting firm's website. The brand guidelines. The talent acquisition microsite. The diversity-and-belonging page. The thought leadership content portal. The campus that runs offsites in Tuscany. The chief experience officer. The seven layers of partners between the work and the client. The conference sponsorships. The thinkpieces in the Atlantic.

Someone is paying for all of that. Pull the thread: the client is.

The Dispatch is what was always there underneath. The build. The synthesis. The named answer. Everything around it was overhead the consulting industry charged for and called value.

“AI is coming to take your jobs.”

The meetings were the job. The building was always the work.

Yes. The Dispatch is coming for McKinsey's jobs. For Bain's jobs. For the strategy boutique's jobs. For the McKinsey alumni who left to start their own boutiques. For the boutique their alumni left to start.

palantir

Palantir Foundry could do everything it actually does — at a fraction of the price, in a fraction of the time, with one Forward Deployed Engineer instead of an army — if Palantir had decided to put its customers' incumbent ontology vendors out of business instead of partnering with them.

It did not decide that. So Palantir Foundry became a very expensive Tableau.

McKinsey could ship the engine in 48 hours. McKinsey decided not to. The Dispatch does.

what people keep saying to us

“I can't believe you said it this way. I never thought of it this way. It is so simple.”

The answer is also the method. We cut out the bullshit. We talk about the ontology.

There is no mission statement. There is the work. The prices reflect the absence of everything else.

filed standing · The Dispatch · @donaldgorbachev