Why we started Legate
I worked as a management consultant, and on project after project I watched firms sell the same package: one senior at the top, a layer of mediors below, juniors underneath. The client paid for that whole pyramid, whatever the problem needed.
A pyramid only pays off on a large budget, so large organisations were the ones buying advice. A company with one hard question and a modest budget went without, or paid for a team it did not need.
Consulting should serve companies of every size and sector, including the ones without a seven-figure budget to spare. You can arrange it around the problem: one specialist for a defined question, a compact team when the work needs more hands, a firm when it needs a firm. Pick the people for the problem, and nobody has to pass off a generalist as a specialist to fill a slot in the pyramid.
That gives more companies a fair shot at good advice, and it gives consultants a larger market to work in. It is also why we build so much of Legate around independent consultants. The specialist a narrow problem calls for often works for themselves.
I also know the puzzle a consulting firm solves each week. Every consultant needs a place on a project, the next engagement has not signed yet, and each week on the bench costs a salary with no revenue behind it. Fitting all of that together without carrying a heavy bench is hard, and we want Legate to help: work for your people between projects, and extra hands in the weeks you run short.
Most important of all, AI now turns out an analysis or a market scan in minutes, and knowledge on its own gets cheaper every month. The scarce part is the person who has solved your problem before and can carry the answer through your organisation. Putting that person on the right problem is the fair solution for a client, and the right one, and we built Legate to make that match.
Founder of Legate
