KPMG deploys Claude to 276,000 staff, PwC follows within the week - and the window for mid-market consultancies to differentiate is now measured in months, not years.
OpenAI ships GPT-5.5 in six weeks, Google locks in $40 billion, and the consultancies pulling ahead aren't winning on model choice - they're winning on workflow design.
Claude Cowork enters enterprise via Microsoft, Anthropic leaks its most powerful model yet, and the agentic sales ops playbook is now available to any consultancy with a CRM and £100 a month.
Most AI tools are trained to be helpful. The problem is that helpfulness and honesty are not the same thing — and a new independent benchmark this week makes that gap impossible to ignore.
OpenCode vs Claude Code: The Cost Question Nobody's Calculating
OpenCode hits 95K stars, Ollama enables local execution—but the real choice isn't which tool is "better", it's whether you've done the maths on what you actually need.
MCP standardises agent integration, Microsoft ships vertical workflows — but the real bottleneck isn't connectors, it's the discipline to calculate before you automate.
