Consulting & Services AI, mapped across 10 layers & 50 sublayers.

Strategy, audit, accounting, advisory.

In research · dataset queued

What this map will answer for Consulting & Services

The Supply Chain of Intelligence™ places every AI company at the layer(s) where it structurally lives, so you can see who is defensible, who gets absorbed by a platform below them, and where the whitespace is. This is the scaffold the Consulting & Services map is being built against. Three verticals are live today (Legal, WealthTech, Sales Tech); Consulting & Services is queued behind them and follows the same 10 × 5 discipline — no fake density, no filler cells.

The 10 layers · 50 sublayers · the questions we answer per vertical

L-1Resources— who owns resources in Consulting & Services?
- L-1a Energy & Grid Interconnect
- L-1b Thermal & Water Management
- L-1c Fabrication & Foundry
- L-1d Critical Materials & Supply Chain
- L-1e Skilled Trades & Human Capital
L0Infrastructure— who owns infrastructure in Consulting & Services?
- L0a Silicon & Memory
- L0b Data Centers
- L0c Interconnect Fabric
- L0d Compute & State Infrastructure
- L0e Edge & On-Device Compute
L1Data— who owns data in Consulting & Services?
- L1a Public & Open Data
- L1b Proprietary Data
- L1c Behavioral & Sensor Data
- L1d Outcome Data
- L1e Synthetic & Simulation Data
L2Models— who owns models in Consulting & Services?
- L2a Foundation & Multimodal Models
- L2b Specialized & Fine-Tuned Models
- L2c Embedding & Retrieval
- L2d Model Routing & Composition
- L2e Reasoning & World Models
L3Gatekeeping— who owns gatekeeping in Consulting & Services?
- L3a Compliance & Export Controls
- L3b Quality Gates
- L3c Safety, Security & Provenance
- L3d Editorial Gates
- L3e Distribution Gates
L4Access— who owns access in Consulting & Services?
- L4a API & Integration Layer
- L4b Agent Interface Protocols
- L4c Access Governance & Agent Commerce
- L4d Real-Time Interaction Infrastructure
- L4e Agent Identity & Provenance
L5Execution— who owns execution in Consulting & Services?
- L5a Domain Execution & Tool Use
- L5b Decision Frameworks & Reasoning Scaffolds
- L5c Retrieval-Augmented Workflows
- L5d Operating Playbooks
- L5e Interaction Skills & Actuation
L6Orchestration— who owns orchestration in Consulting & Services?
- L6a Agent Loops
- L6b Human-in-the-Loop
- L6c Role Routing & Task Decomposition
- L6d Context & State Management
- L6e Runtime Assurance & Learning Loops
L7Surface— who owns surface in Consulting & Services?
- L7a Conversational
- L7b Visual Interfaces & Media
- L7c Embedded & Embodied AI
- L7d Transaction Surface
- L7e Async & Ambient Surfaces
L8Memory— who owns memory in Consulting & Services?
- L8a Session & Short-Term Memory
- L8b User & Entity Profiles
- L8c Aggregated Network Learning
- L8d Institutional Knowledge
- L8e Learned World Models