AI tools help consultants speed up research, analyze data, synthesize client documents, draft deliverables, capture meeting notes, keep client knowledge organized, automate repetitive work, build proposals, manage time, and generate new leads.

This gives them more time to focus on what they're paid for: applying their expertise and judgment to solve clients' problems.

Perplexity is one of them.

Consultants use it for client deep dives, market sizing, proposal development, final-pass document review, and as a general AI assistant.

Every Deep Research answer comes with inline citations to the sources it pulled from, making it easier to verify accuracy.

Projects keep all chats, files, and custom instructions for each client in one place, and Perplexity Computer , its AI Agent, completes complex multi-step tasks.

But we’re not going to focus on Perplexity.

What are the other tools that should be at the top of your consideration list?

We’ve covered 10 other AI tools for consulting, organized by use case.

Each entry lists what the tool does, its core features, current pricing, and alternative tools worth considering.

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