Nearly all businesses (99.99%) cannot afford McKinsey’s consulting services. Now, these previously underserved companies can access similar expertise through AI. Xavier AI, pioneering AI-powered consulting, makes professional consulting accessible to anyone, anytime.
Today, Xavier AI emerges from stealth mode to introduce its AI strategy consultant, delivering actionable business insights as presentation-ready slides. The platform democratises elite consultancy tools, previously limited to firms like McKinsey, making them available to businesses at a fraction of the cost.
Speaking exclusively with TFN, Joao Filipe, Xavier’s CEO and co-founder, shared: “Of course, we think this will dramatically change the consulting profession. In the long term, we believe that the world’s brightest minds shouldn’t be stuck in traditional consulting or investment banking roles but should instead be working on the frontier of tech and science. Xavier AI will also help them do that.”
The company plans to raise up to $15M in the coming months.
Providing businesses expert-level insights at a fraction of the cost
Xavier AI is the world’s first AI strategy consultant, delivering expert-level insights at scale. Founded by former consultant Joao Filipe, AI pioneer Phil Parker (INSEAD), and private Silicon Valley investors, the platform combines advanced technology with deep expertise to serve strategy, management, and marketing teams worldwide.
The co-founders bring complementary expertise to building the world’s first AI consultant. Joao Filipe, an ex-McKinsey consultant and self-taught programmer, holds an MBA from INSEAD and Wharton. His co-founder, Phil Parker, is an INSEAD AI/ML Professor who has trained consultants for over 20 years. In 2007, Phil received one of the first patents for natural language generation (now known as GenAI) for his software that automatically writes books and reports.
Xavier AI has developed a proprietary reasoning engine that delivers practical solutions, including competitor analysis, market sizing, and financial modeling, to companies previously unable to afford top-tier consulting. With a mission to democratise strategic decision-making, Xavier AI serves diverse clients from startups to large enterprises, including a leading international bank among its early adopters.
How Xavier AI delivers affordable, high-quality strategy consulting through AI-generated slides
Xavier AI’s specialised workflows access industry databases, news, public financials, and internal documents. Its state-of-the-art Dynamic Multi-Method Generation (DMG) model mirrors the detailed work of strategy consultants, grounding its answers in verifiable sources to ensure high-quality, accurate content.
The proprietary DMG model sets Xavier AI apart from generic AI tools. It integrates deterministic algorithms, vetted industry databases, and real-time news feeds to produce data-backed recommendations. When benchmarking companies, Xavier AI cross-references public financials, analyst reports, and internal documents, creating a clear trail of sources for every insight.
Filipe told us, “Beyond leveraging advanced language AI models, Xavier AI has created a proprietary reasoning engine. Dynamic Multi-Method Generation (DMG) is our unique approach. It augments the output of large language models with deterministic methods and vetted data sources to minimise hallucinations and ensure high-quality content. DMG can compare and benchmark companies, estimate market sizes, and build financial models instantly based on user input.”
Xavier AI rapidly analyses company performance against competitors, estimates market sizes for new ventures, and builds financial models. In addition to models like DeepSeek, Xavier employs a proprietary reasoning engine developed with Professor Philip Parker, an INSEAD AI/ML pioneer with over 25 years of experience in Generative Data.
Early adopters, including a major international bank with 50,000 employees, use Xavier AI to enhance their strategic planning and sales approach. The platform excels at converting complex data into actionable insights. Users can implement recommendations directly through Xavier AI’s Actions feature, which integrates with Slack, SAP, Salesforce, and other platforms.
Speaking about competition, Filipe shared: “There are many tools for generating basic slides with AI. However, for us, slides are merely a vehicle — what matters is the business knowledge they contain. Xavier AI is alone in its ability to analyse businesses and markets, delivering findings through professional-grade, digestible slides that can shape company strategy and impress leadership.”
Future plans: Challenging the Big 4s’ dominance
Filipe concluded, “One of the new things we plan to build on is Xavier Actions. We often hear from people that AI tools won’t go to the client site and implement recommendations. In fact, in consulting engagements, we typically say there is “strategy work” and “implementation work.” With Actions, Xavier will propose to you actionable recommendations based on your deck that you can automatically implement in one click (through integrations like Salesforce, Slack, or SAP), making you more efficient and faster at decision-making without leaving the Xavier AI platform.
We think we are just at the beginning of the enterprise AI adoption phase, and people are already getting tired of the chatbot interface. Xavier AI provides a better multi-modal experience with detailed sources, pristine data, how-to blueprints, and other neat features tailored for the business user. In the next 3-5 years, we plan to take on the entire professional services industry. Imagine business ICs (individual contributors) being able to tackle not only management tasks but also finance, product, marketing, sales, operations, legal, HR, and so on… becoming superhumans at work.”
