“Last year alone, McKinsey saved 1.5 million hours by using AI for search and synthesis, tasks Sternfels says AI models excel at. He also emphasized the growing role of AI agents.
McKinsey now has 25,000 of them, which have generated 2.5 million charts in the past six months. By offloading routine, time-consuming work, consultants are able to ‘move up the stack,’ Sternfels said, and address ‘more complicated problems.’”