How-to · Business Operations · By Fleury (McKinsey-style Skills)

How to use McKinsey-Style Consultant in your AI agent

Install and use the McKinsey-Style Consultant skill in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, and Windsurf — with sample prompts.

What you'll get

This skill helps you create professional consulting presentations in the McKinsey style. It guides you through structured problem-solving—breaking down business questions into MECE frameworks, forming hypotheses, and designing slide layouts with clean charts and data storytelling. You get a full deck with executive summaries, analysis pages, and organized data sources.

Step 1 — Get the skill source URL

The McKinsey-Style Consultant skill lives at:

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Step 2 — Add it to your AI agent

Copy one of these prompts and paste it into your AI tool. The agent will fetch and install the skill for you.

Claude Code

Add the agent skill from https://github.com/fleurytian/awesome-claude-skills/tree/main/mckinsey-consultant-11 to my project.

Cursor

Install this agent skill: https://github.com/fleurytian/awesome-claude-skills/tree/main/mckinsey-consultant-11

Codex

Add this skill to .codex/skills/: https://github.com/fleurytian/awesome-claude-skills/tree/main/mckinsey-consultant-11

Gemini CLI

Add the skill at https://github.com/fleurytian/awesome-claude-skills/tree/main/mckinsey-consultant-11 to my .gemini/skills/ directory.

OpenCode

Install this agent skill from https://github.com/fleurytian/awesome-claude-skills/tree/main/mckinsey-consultant-11

Windsurf

Add this skill: https://github.com/fleurytian/awesome-claude-skills/tree/main/mckinsey-consultant-11

Step 3 — Try these prompts

Once the skill is installed, ask your AI things like:

  • Present a strategic analysis to executives or investors
  • Exploring a market opportunity and want a structured research deck
  • You want a consulting-quality presentation without hiring a firm
  • You have a business problem and need a clear, data-backed recommendation

What this skill does

  • Breaks down business problems using issue trees and the pyramid principle
  • Designs McKinsey-style slide layouts with proper hierarchy and data visualization
  • Searches for supporting data and organizes it into Excel sheets with source URLs
  • Generates PowerPoint decks page by page with clean charts and executive summaries
  • Manages complex multi-page projects across sessions with dependency tracking
SkillMcKinsey-Style Consultant
Made byFleury (McKinsey-style Skills)
CategoryBusiness Operations
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