AI BDR for Consulting Firms — Autonomous Business Development
Strides Agent helps management consulting and advisory firms generate new client meetings without manual BD. AI outreach for consulting firms that need to scale pipeline.
Consulting firms grow through referrals and relationships — but systematic outbound to the right prospects at the right moment creates new relationships at scale. Strides does the outbound while your partners do the relationship development.
By the Numbers
- 15h — Per week saved per principal on BD
- 4× — More new client conversations opened
- 0 — BD headcount required to run outreach
- 24/7 — Pipeline nurturing without lifting a finger
Built for Consulting Firm Business Development.
Industry signal monitoring, C-suite targeting, and meeting booking for management consulting and advisory firms.
Prospect Research
Finds, scores, and qualifies your ideal customers from 6 live data sources — hiring signals, funding rounds, intent data, and more.
Personalized Outreach
Writes and sends emails that reference the prospect's specific context. Not templates with merge fields — genuinely unique messages for every person.
AI Phone Calls
Real phone conversations with real objection handling. The AI books meetings on the call, detects voicemail in 2 seconds, and leaves a perfect message every time.
Inbound Handling
Responds to every inbound inquiry in under 60 seconds, qualifies them against your ICP, and books a meeting before your team even opens their laptop.
Autonomous Pipeline
Stranger to booked meeting without a single human touchpoint. The full outbound motion runs on its own, 24/7, across every timezone.
CRM Sync & Reporting
Every interaction logged to your CRM automatically. Calls transcribed, scored, and summarized. Full pipeline visibility without any manual data entry.
How Consulting Firms Scale Business Development Without Scaling Their BD Team
Management consulting firms face a structural BD challenge: the people best positioned to sell the firm's capabilities — senior partners and principals — are also the people responsible for delivery. Time spent on business development is time not spent on client work. This creates a natural ceiling on how aggressively a consulting firm can grow pipeline without adding dedicated BD staff.
Strides solves this by handling the prospecting and first-contact stage autonomously, so principals and partners only engage when there is a genuine conversation to have. It identifies companies experiencing the kind of inflection points that create consulting needs — leadership changes, strategic pivots, operational challenges, regulatory shifts — and initiates the first conversation on the firm's behalf.
Consulting outreach must project expertise and relevance rather than desperation for business. Strides' messaging for consulting firms leads with insight — referencing something specific about the prospect's industry or business situation — before introducing the firm's capabilities. The result reads like a thoughtful introduction from a knowledgeable advisor, not an unsolicited pitch.
Consulting firms that deploy Strides see the most impact in opening conversations with prospective clients in specific industries or functional areas where the firm has deep expertise but limited existing relationships — accelerating penetration into new sectors without partner relationship-building time.
What Customers Say
We were spending 3 hours a day on list building. Strides does it overnight while we sleep. We wake up to 200 verified, signal-qualified leads every morning.
Daniel Frey, Head of Sales at Paigo — 200 signal-qualified leads delivered every morning
Our previous tool sent the same email with the name swapped. Strides writes something different for every single person. Prospects actually respond saying they were impressed.
Jordan Lee, Director of Sales at Resend — Reply rate up 3.7× in the first 30 days
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Frequently Asked Questions
What triggers does Strides monitor to identify consulting opportunities?
C-suite leadership changes (new CEOs frequently bring in outside advisory support), PE portfolio company acquisitions (creating operational improvement needs), rapid growth phases (requiring operational and strategic counsel), regulatory changes (creating compliance advisory needs), and M&A activity (requiring integration consulting).
Can Strides reach C-suite and board-level decision-makers?
Yes. Strides identifies and contacts CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CHROs, and board members with messaging calibrated to their strategic priorities and current business context — not generic capability pitches.
How does Strides fit with a referral-based consulting BD model?
Strides doesn't replace referral-based BD — it adds a parallel systematic channel. Strides generates new conversations that don't depend on existing relationships, expanding the firm's reach beyond its current network.
Does Strides work for boutique firms as well as larger consultancies?
Yes. Boutique firms use Strides to punch above their weight in BD, reaching prospects that would otherwise only meet with larger firms. Larger consultancies use Strides to generate pipeline in specific practice areas or industry verticals.
Can Strides help with both strategy consulting and operational/functional consulting?
Yes. Strategy consulting targets C-suite in transformation scenarios. Operational consulting targets operations, finance, and HR leadership in efficiency-focused scenarios. Strides configures separate targeting and messaging for each practice area.