For consultants & strategy professionals

Make AI think like a senior partner — not a search box.

The six frameworks and 100 prompts that turn AI into a consulting-grade thinking partner. Start free.

By Iyad Barakat — author of The Consulting Prompt Playbook · Cambridge & MIT executive education · 26+ years in consulting.

Iyad Barakat
Cambridge & MIT executive educationFeatured on TV & radio
About

A strategist at the intersection of technology and human judgment.

Iyad Barakat is a digital transformation and consulting leader with more than 26 years of experience helping organizations navigate change — across nearly three decades in London and, more recently, the Middle East.

A strategist with executive education in digital transformation and disruption from the University of Cambridge, plus executive training from MIT and Emeritus in design thinking, he has spent his career at the intersection of technology, strategy, and human judgment.

Iyad has appeared on television and radio and written extensively on digital transformation and innovation. Palestinian-American and now based in the Middle East after 28 years in London, he brings a genuinely global lens to how consulting, technology, and the Middle East intersect.

Cambridge — Exec. Ed., Digital TransformationMIT — Design ThinkingEmeritus — Digital TransformationAgilePM PractitionerSystematic Inventive Thinking
The Consulting Prompt Playbook — book cover
The Book

The Consulting Prompt Playbook

Supercharge your thinking, elevate client impact, and accelerate your consulting career with AI-powered prompts. Six proprietary frameworks and 100 structured prompts, built for every stage of the consulting lifecycle — from ambitious analyst to seasoned partner.

Readers: your copy includes a code for the companion Prompt Vault — redeem it here.

Inside the Playbook

Six frameworks. One hundred prompts.

A structured system for using AI as a genuine thinking partner in consulting work — not a shortcut, a multiplier.

GOAL

Your Daily Driver

The everyday framework for fast, structured thinking under time pressure.

RCAS

Deep Professional Work

For engagements that demand rigor, nuance, and defensible analysis.

RISE

Strategic Thinking

Elevate from analysis to genuine strategic synthesis.

CRISP-C

Content Creation

From slides to stories — communication that actually lands.

CAPE

Research & Analysis

Structured intelligence-gathering for high-stakes decisions.

IDEA

Innovation & Creative

Breaking from best-practice thinking into genuine next-practice.

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The Consulting AI Operating System

A bounded workflow system for producing defensible client work with AI. The first workflow — turning mixed evidence into an accountable recommendation brief — is currently being prepared for a small design-partner cohort.

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