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Cohorte's programs for consulting, audit, advisory, and legal firms. Built on the only Big-Four AI Factory programme with a published operating model, named outcomes, and a verifiable reference contact.
Why PS needs different training
In a consulting, audit, advisory, or legal firm, the deliverable is the partner's judgment expressed in text. AI is unusually dangerous in this context because it produces plausible-looking judgment at zero marginal cost. The training problem is not "can people use AI." It is "can people tell when AI's output is wrong, and will they take accountability if it is."
Your deliverable is the deliverable.
An audit report, a legal opinion, a tax memo: each is signed by a partner whose professional indemnity stands behind it. The question every audit committee will eventually ask: how did the firm verify the AI-assisted work before signing?
Client data, the firewall, the engagement.
The single most common reason a PS firm rejects a generic AI vendor is data-handling. The training programme has to teach people how to use AI safely with privileged client information.
The billable-hour question is real.
If AI cuts engagement effort by 40%, does the firm pass that on or absorb it? Leadership decides. Training gives engagement teams the operating discipline to use AI without hollowing out the margin floor.
The PwC AI Factory: Cohorte's reference engagement
Cohorte's founder led the build of the PwC France & Maghreb AI Factory. It is the closest existing analogue to what most PS firms say they want to build internally: a centralised AI delivery capability with governance built in, scaled from zero to firm-wide adoption in 18 months. The methodology forged in that engagement is what Cohorte teaches.
Reference call with Patrick Monteiro arranged after a mutual NDA. Read the full case study.
The use cases we train against
| Use case | Where it sits | Confidentiality risk | Verification primitive |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engagement scoping copilot | Advisory, consulting | Low | Source attribution, style alignment, escalation |
| Audit working-paper review | Audit | High | Logs, partner sign-off gate, sampling discipline |
| Tax memo drafting | Tax advisory | High | Citation-grounded generation, jurisdiction lookup |
| Legal opinion drafting | Law firms | High | Authority-grounding, citation verification, supervised drafting |
| Due diligence summarisation | Transaction services, M&A | Critical | Source-document attribution, scope-bounded retrieval |
| RFP / proposal drafting | Business development | Medium | Reference matching, price-discipline gate |
| Industry research synthesis | Consulting, advisory | Low | Source citation, publication-date verification |
| Engagement-letter drafting | All practices | Medium | Clause library lookup, risk-flagging |
| Internal knowledge agent | Firm-wide | High | Permission-aware retrieval, DLP gates, audit logs |
Sample curriculum
What a typical 12-week PS Team Bootcamp covers, module by module. The actual curriculum is tuned to your stack and use cases in the pre-bootcamp scoping call with Charafeddine.
| Module | Topic | What your team produces |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Scoping & operating discipline. Process First. The Thinking Stack (Clarify, Structure, Generate, Verify). LUMEN scoping brief drafted live for one engagement-grade workflow. | Mission charter and LUMEN scoping brief for one practice workflow, signed off by the partner sponsor. |
| 02 | AI Engineering Foundations. The Three V's (Vibes, Variance, Vendor). The Accountable Development Lifecycle. Prompt architecture, multi-model patterns, MCP tool use. | Working system v0.1 against your tooling, templates, and brand voice. |
| 03 | Trust & Verification. The Confidence Problem. Self-consistency sampling. Conformal prediction. Citation-grounded generation as the partner-sign-off primitive. | Verification gates and source attribution wired in. Every output is defensible by citation. |
| 04 | Accountable Agents and the 4-Layer Architecture. Platform Protocol. Agent-Auth (least-privilege access). Guardrails as architectural constraints. Audit trail for billable work. | Agent-Auth and Guardrails layered in. Audit-trail design for AI-assisted deliverables, documented for client disclosure. |
| 05 | Engagement Governance. Brand-voice gate. Partner sign-off workflow. Engagement-letter language for AI-assisted work. AI Act Articles 12 (logging) and 14 (human oversight) mapping. | Brand-voice classifier, partner sign-off workflow, engagement-letter language adopted firm-wide. |
| 06 | Capstone and Sponsor Brief. Red-team workshop. Founder critique. Sponsor demo to partner leadership. Operating brief written, reviewed, signed. | Production-grade PS system. Sponsor brief defensible to a managing partner and to the client. |
The PS portfolio
Sequenced to a partnership model. Early proof in one practice, expansion through visible internal champions, eventually firm-wide curriculum.
PS Pilot · €8K–€12K · 4 weeks
One practice, one workflowPS Team Bootcamp · €4,200/seat · 12 weeks
Private cohort · 6–15 seatsPS Curriculum License · €12,000 / year
Up to 25 seatsPS AI Readiness Program · from €35,000 · 3-6 months
Assessment + advisory + playbookBeyond the four programs: ongoing, founder-led advisory is available on a retainer, for firms that want Charafeddine on call between engagements. Operating counsel on your systems, not strategy decks. Email teams@cohorte.co.
The PS objections we always hear
"We compete with PwC. Cohorte working with them is a conflict."
Cohorte signs a strict confidentiality framework with every client. PwC engagement IP, methodology specific to PwC, and PwC operating processes do not cross into any other engagement. The published methodology is the part shared with the market. Engagement-specific work is firewalled in the MSA.
"AI will erode our billable-hour model."
This is a leadership question, not a training question. Firms that resist AI training lose senior associates first (they leave for firms that train them) and engagements second (clients increasingly expect AI-augmented delivery at the same quality bar).
"Our partners won't tolerate generic training."
Correct. The Team Bootcamp is private, scoped to the practice, exercises rewritten against the engagement contexts your team actually handles. Partners participate as sponsors, not trainees.
"We need on-site delivery. Client data cannot leave the firewall."
Supported. On-site in Paris, London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Brussels, Madrid, Casablanca. No Cohorte infrastructure; runs on your laptops, your tenant, your environment.
"L&D budget is committed for the year."
Cohorte is not Qualiopi-certified today (in progress, 2026 roadmap), so direct CPF and direct OPCO aren't available right now. The standard path is direct L&D budget; OPCO routes via a Qualiopi-certified partner. The Pilot at €8K-€12K typically fits inside discretionary practice budgets even mid-year.
"We have a Big-Four consulting arm. Why not use it?"
You can. Big-Four consulting gives you strategy and a roadmap. Cohorte gives you 8–15 operators who can ship. Several clients run both. We are the layer that comes after the deck.
Bring your worst PS use case.
Working-paper review. Tax memo. Due diligence summarisation. Pick the workflow your partners are most afraid to let AI touch. €8K, fixed. Four weeks.