McKinsey Leans On AI to Make PowerPoints, Draft Proposals (1)

McKinsey & Co.’s consultants are increasingly drafting proposals and making PowerPoint slides using the firm’s generative artificial intelligence platform, which has developed enough to take over at least some of the tasks typically performed by junior employees.

While employees have access to the likes of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, they can only input confidential client data into Lilli, the proprietary platform aggregating McKinsey’s knowledge base, according to Kate Smaje, the company’s global leader of technology and AI.

Through Lilli’s AI agents, McKinsey employees can now create PowerPoint slides from simple prompts and ensure reports have the right tone through a tool ...