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April 29, 20264 min readconsultinguse case

Digesting 200-page research reports in minutes

Consultants and analysts: stop scanning McKinsey decks and Gartner PDFs page-by-page. Upload, ask, cite — repeat.

Strategy and analyst work runs on synthesis. You read four 100-page reports, two industry decks, and a stack of expert-network transcripts — then write a 10-slide answer. The reading is the bottleneck. So is the citing back when the partner asks "where did you get that?"

The problem

Generic summarization tools collapse nuance. A summary that says "growth is moderating" when the report says "growth is moderating in tier-2 cities but accelerating in tier-1" is the kind of error that ends up on the wrong slide. And without citations, you're re-reading the report when the partner asks where the number came from.

How SeekFiles AI helps

  • Cited synthesis — every claim is linked to the exact page in the source report.
  • Cross-report retrieval — ask one question across five Gartner / McKinsey / BCG PDFs simultaneously.
  • Hybrid retrieval captures both meaning and exact-term matches (industry codes, company names).
  • Streaming answers — start drafting your slide while the answer is still being composed.

A workflow

  1. Make a per-engagement assistant. Upload every report you've gathered.
  2. Ask the project's "key questions" directly. "What's the consensus view on EV adoption in SEA by 2030?"
  3. Drop cited paragraphs into your storyline doc. The footnote writes itself.
  4. When the partner pushes back: open the assistant, ask a clarifying question, get a follow-up cited answer in seconds.

What to upload

  • Industry reports (Gartner, IDC, Statista, McKinsey, BCG, Bain)
  • Government statistics PDFs
  • Expert-network transcripts
  • Company filings (10-Ks, prospectuses)
  • Internal interview notes

Synthesis stays your job. Page-flipping doesn't have to be.

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