Consulting knowledge management is the discipline and tooling around capturing, organising, and reusing the institutional knowledge generated during consulting engagements — frameworks, deliverables, client research, and reusable methodology.
Why it matters
Big consulting firms invest heavily in KM (McKinsey's PD Net, BCG's Knowledge Library, Bain's Knowledge System) because reuse compounds: an insight generated for one client is leverageable across dozens. Boutique firms typically lack this leverage — they have the same engagements but no KM stack.
The unsolved problem at every scale is *findability*. KM systems accumulate; nobody remembers what's in them. The next-generation pitch is automatic capture (no librarian needed) and AI-augmented retrieval (no exact-keyword required).
How Pith relates
Pith is a knowledge management layer for consulting work, designed for individuals and small firms (≤25 people). It captures automatically (bookmarks → wiki) and retrieves semantically (search + topic map). See [For Consultants](/for/consultants).
See also
Last reviewed: 10 May 2026 · Licensed CC BY 4.0 · cite freely with attribution to Pith.