Bots, Not Baas: McKinsey’s 12,000 AI Agents (and Why You Care)

Big consulting firms are stealing our future or at least the boring parts of it. McKinsey now deploys 12,000 AI “agents” bots that happily do the grunt work junior consultants used to draw the short straw for.

These digital workhorses:

• Draft PowerPoint slides (without the clipart disasters).
   

• Take interview notes (without the “uhh”s).
   

• Summarize data sets (without the Excel-induced migraines).
   

• Double-check analysis (without the intern panic sweats).

The result? McKinsey’s workforce dropped from ~45,000 to 40,000 as bots took on the repetitive stuff. Their CEO even predicts “one AI agent for every human” soon. That’s not sci-fi that’s next quarter.

What These Bots Actually Do

The secret sauce isn’t replacing creativity it’s turbocharging productivity. AI agents excel at:

• Drafting slides, emails, and reports.
   

• Automating data crunching, summaries, and insights.
   

• Running background workflows while humans focus on strategy and problem-solving.

In other words: bots handle the busywork, humans handle the big ideas.

Startups Can Play Too

You don’t need 12,000 AI agents (or McKinsey’s fees) to get started. Imagine:

• A bot that auto-generates your weekly KPI report.
   

• A chatbot that answers customer FAQs while you sleep.
   

• An AI assistant that summarizes meetings so no one has to fight over who takes notes.

That’s the McKinsey model, scaled down, startup-style.

How Glinteco Helps

Here’s where Glinteco steps in. We build AI-powered solutions that make startups and SMEs punch above their weight:

• Custom Chatbots → For customer support, lead generation, or even cheeky office banter.
   

• Automated Data Pipelines → Collect, clean, and visualize data without the manual grind.
   

• AI-Assisted Analytics → Insights delivered straight to your dashboard without hours of spreadsheet wrangling.

And this isn’t theory, we’ve done it:

• With DSTax, we automated tax workflows using AI and data collectors, cutting hours of manual compliance work into minutes.
   

• With pirc.ai, we built AI-driven data pipelines for retail price intelligence, helping brands track and react to competitors in real time.

No need to fire people. Just let AI handle the repetitive stuff, your coffee fetcher and office banter champion are safe.