AI Creates PowerPoints at McKinsey Replacing Junior Workers – Over 75% of McKinsey employees now use the internal AI tool Lilli, which safely handles confidential information.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/ai-creates-powerpoints-at-mckinsey-replacing-junior-workers/492624
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McKinsey consultants are using the firm’s proprietary AI platform to take over tasks that have traditionally been handled by junior employees.
Kate Smaje, McKinsey’s global leader of technology and AI, told [*Bloomberg*](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-02/mckinsey-leans-on-ai-to-make-powerpoints-faster-draft-proposals) on Monday that McKinsey employees are increasingly tapping into Lilli, the internal AI platform the firm launched in 2023. While employees are permitted to use ChatGPT internally, Lilli is the only platform that allows them to input confidential client data safely.
Over 75% of McKinsey’s [43,000 employees](https://www.mckinsey.com/careers/meet-our-people) are now using Lilli monthly, Smaje disclosed. Lilli was named after Lillian Dombrowski, the first woman hired by McKinsey in 1945.
Through Lilli, McKinsey consultants can create a PowerPoint slideshow through a prompt and modify the tone of the presentation with a tool called “Tone of Voice” to ensure that the text aligns with the firm’s writing style. They can also draft proposals for client projects while maintaining the firm’s standards, find internal subject matter experts, and research industry trends.
Making PowerPoint slides is exactly the kind of job AI should be used for. A task requiring a minor degree of creativity but mostly drudge work that involves reformulating known information.and low stakes because checking a set of PowerPoint slides happens naturally when you rehearse a presentation.
> Through Lilli, McKinsey consultants can create a PowerPoint slideshow through a prompt and modify the tone of the presentation with a tool called “Tone of Voice” to ensure that the text aligns with the firm’s writing style.
Great Scott!
> Smaje says that doesn’t mean McKinsey is going to hire fewer junior analysts.
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I dont like titles like these isn’t the purpose of a junior worker to do the research, analysis, work etc that goes into the PowerPoint? Sure manually creating a PowerPoint is a massive time savings but they still need to adjust it, get the story flow, ensure it meets the right organization, and drive reviews internally they support presentation to the client, project team, leadership etc.
This is going to bite them. Junior consultants had considerable passive training and development by building these slide decks. By letting their juniors rot and miss out on professional development this way they will only sabotage their own future as a company.
I do some local angel investing and we got a pitch recently for this exact product but instead of an internal tool it would have been external. Sucks for them I guess.
You pay them 2.5M to draw an org chart. They used CGTP.
Let’s take away the entry level jobs so there is less competition for promotions for those grandfathered in.
Seems like a great way to cause stagnation within a company.
Good. Making PowerPoints is not only not a skill, it’s a waste of valuable time.
Why should I bother watching a presentation you couldn’t be bothered to write?
These companies don’t realize that if you remove junior positions, the more senior roles that can’t be easily replaced with AI will end up being vacant when they retire in 10-20 years.
At some point this bubble has to pop, corporations are under the impression that they can remove most of their employees with AI, at the same time dooming future growth due to a lack of senior employees, and not even customers to buy goods and services with significantly higher unemployment.
Guess what, every large company has (or will soon have) its own LLM chatbot trained on company policies and data. I work at one of the largest federal consultancies and work internally to scale adoption and usage of these genAI tools. They say usage is ~80-90% which is bs, actual usage is around ~20-30% varying by level. Most people don’t know how to use LLMs effectively.
These are tools used by humans to accelerate productivity, so a net positive. What will cause economic disaster is the coming automation with agents who will severely curtail hiring for junior resources in finance, law, software development, etc. I think ironically, though first impacted by genAI LLMs, the creatives will be the ones that can’t be agent-ized because these machines have no real creativity for themselves. The way they work today they’re incapable of creating wholly new thoughts or ideas. They’re based entirely off of probability, not any real knowledge.
It basically replaces production capabilities, to some extent.
PowerPoint slides are usually made for middle and senior executives. Since they are making decisions based on these slides, couldn’t we just replace them with AI tools that use the same information that was used to create the slides in the first place
Critical support to AI for destroying the next generation of McKinsey consultant careers
Nothing like dropping a half a million on a PowerPoint generated by AI. Why would you need the management consulting company in the middle then?
Does anyone have any recommendations of how to use AI to create a powerpoint report? Essentially i have an excel with tables, and an already created template of a powerpoint i want the ai to use. I just want it to take the tables and put them onto the slides, and give a couple sentences explaining it.
I try to use chatgpt+ but it kept having major difficulties trying to put the tables onto the slide and then give a description.