Collaborators on the project
Shay Luo
Ex-Kearney Partner & Founder. Combines consulting strategy with AI solutions.
Prof. Inhwa Kim
Assistant Professor of Business at Oregon State University. AI scientist in human-AI interaction and AI in retail.
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THINKBEYONDAI — REFLECTION, ANALYSIS AND DEBATE
The best analysts, consultants and lawyers of the next decade will not be the ones who ignore these systems, nor the ones who trust them without checking. They will be the ones who define what their field accepts as correct, not despite automation but through it.
ThinkBeyondAI is built for that: understanding how these systems work, and judgment about where they fail. So that you stay the standard AI is measured against, and not the one it overtakes.
We examine how AI is changing professional work in law firms, consulting, M&A, investment banking and corporate finance, and what it does to institutions whose authority rests on human judgment. Theory is not where it stops. We show how the tools are used day to day, and we build the learning material that goes with it, for teams and for individuals.
Our work comes out of an international collaboration between students, professors and practitioners. Students ask what the field has stopped asking. Professors bring the method. Practitioners bring the work as it is.
Think beyond the forecast.
Featured posts
A Bain partner on where AI has already changed consulting work, which roles it creates, and what he now expects from applicants.
by Carl Erhard, Sep 18, 2026
A field study of a service robot in a campus store found that perceived usefulness and the robot's way of speaking shaped acceptance. That transfers to prompting.
by Carl Erhard, Sep 18, 2026
Bain's consultants have built more than 19,000 custom GPTs, and in the UK the firm says it will hire 25 percent more graduates, not fewer.
by Carl Erhard, Sep 18, 2026
Push a model past a perfect fit on its training data and test error starts falling again. Double descent, and what it did to learning theory.
by Tom Buchholz, Sep 16, 2026
A language model puts a probability on every possible next word, picks one, and runs the calculation again. Everything else follows from that loop.
by Emil Ohligs, Sep 16, 2026
A KKR managing director on where AI lands in a private equity firm, what the deal market looks like, and how to get noticed when applying.
by Emil Ohligs, Sep 16, 2026
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A Bain partner on where AI has already changed consulting work, which roles it creates, and what he now expects from applicants.
by Carl Erhard, Sep 18, 2026
A company with years of consistent service records can forecast failures; one without cannot. Curated reality is the scarce asset now.
by Sven von Bismarck, Sep 18, 2026
New York Fed data shows firms adopting AI and rarely cutting staff. What they report instead is retraining and redistributed tasks.
by Sven von Bismarck, Sep 18, 2026
AI drafts 95 percent of an S-1 in minutes, says Goldman's chief executive. The work juniors learned from is the work being automated first.
by Sven von Bismarck, Sep 18, 2026
A support center study found a 34 percent gain for novices and almost none for experienced staff. The bottom rung of the ladder is being pulled up.
by Sven von Bismarck, Sep 18, 2026
BCG finds 5 percent of companies generating value from AI at scale. Judgment, not speed, is what separates them from the other 60 percent.
by Sven von Bismarck, Sep 18, 2026