73 technology consulting cases covering cloud & infrastructure, AI & automation, cybersecurity, SaaS, digital transformation and more — in the style of McKinsey, BCG, Bain, EY, PwC, Deloitte, Accenture and Kearney interviews. Every case can be practiced live with an AI interviewer that scores your structure, math and recommendation.
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McKinsey · Strategy · Medium · 25-35 min
A tier-1 Saudi telco. Postpaid annual churn has climbed from 4% to 8% over eighteen months while the two main competitors hold steady at 2%. Prepaid is flat. Postpaid ARPU is roughly four times prepaid. The CEO wants the…
McKinsey · Tech Consulting · Hard · 35-45 min
A global bank — $400M annual public-cloud spend, growing 35% year-on-year — has a board mandate to repatriate 40% of workloads to on-prem within three years. The CTO is sceptical. The CFO is enthusiastic. The mandate was…
McKinsey · Consumer / beauty retail · Intermediate · 25-35 min
A global beauty company is considering training in-store consultants to use virtual channels to connect with customers beyond the store.
McKinsey · Public sector / financial inclusion · Advanced · 35-45 min
Assess whether the Diconsa network in Mexico could be used to provide basic financial services to rural communities.
McKinsey · Industrial / automotive · Advanced · 35-45 min
A European truck manufacturer is evaluating whether to invest in producing and selling electric trucks.
McKinsey · Talent / Digital Transformation · Advanced · 35-45 min
A Fortune 500 technology company needs to upskill 30,000 employees in large language model tools and capabilities within 18 months. Leadership wants a roadmap that addresses skills gaps, training investments, organizatio…
McKinsey · Technology / Cloud Operations · Advanced · 35-45 min
A $10B SaaS unicorn’s cloud spend is growing 40% annually while revenue grows 25%—cloud cost as a % of revenue is increasing. CTO needs a strategy to right-size infrastructure, improve cost efficiency, and establish FinO…
BCG · Tech Consulting · Medium · 25-35 min
A KSA family conglomerate — SAR 8B revenue across retail, real estate, F&B, and contracting. The chairman has come back from Davos asking for 'an AI strategy across the group' in 90 days. There is no Chief Data Officer,…
BCG · Strategy · Easy · 20-30 min
A European premium coffee chain — 180 stores across France, Italy, Germany, average ticket EUR 8, brand built on single-origin and design-led interiors. The CEO is considering Saudi Arabia for first Middle East entry. Sa…
BCG · Sustainability / corporate strategy · Intermediate · 25-35 min
A global company wants to set a climate target and choose which initiatives will help achieve it.
BCG · Financial services / digital · Intermediate · 25-35 min
A digital bank has fallen in customer satisfaction rankings and wants to get back into the top three.
BCG · Technology / consumer goods · Advanced · 35-45 min
A consumer goods company needs to upgrade its ERP system and must decide how to approach cloud migration.
BCG · Financial Services / AI & Automation · Advanced · 35-45 min
A large investment bank has launched 12 GenAI pilot programs across trading, risk management, and client advisory. Results are mixed—some show strong promise, others are underperforming. Leadership needs a framework to m…
BCG · Technology / Operations · Intermediate · 25-35 min
A large retail bank operates 40+ legacy systems built on deprecated technology (COBOL, mainframe) that costs $200M annually to maintain. Business capabilities have been replicated in modern systems. Develop a legacy syst…
Bain · Strategy · Medium · 25-35 min
A GCC hypermarket chain — 220 stores, 9M loyalty members of which 70% have not transacted in the last quarter, NPS 14, average basket AED 95. The board wants 'a world-class loyalty programme' rebuild. The CMO is pushing…
Bain · Tech Consulting · Medium · 25-35 min
A PE fund has carved a last-mile routing SaaS out of a global courier parent. The new standalone — 180 staff, $40M ARR, 60% gross margin — has an 18-month TSA covering payroll, billing, ITSM, identity, and the data lake.…
Bain · Food and beverage · Beginner · 20-30 min
A client faces a time-sensitive market-entry opportunity in food and beverage and needs a fast recommendation.
Bain · Public sector · Intermediate · 25-35 min
A public sector organization wants to identify growth opportunities while navigating bureaucracy and changing market dynamics.
Bain · Travel and tourism · Intermediate · 25-35 min
A travel business facing weaker performance needs a sharper view on market potential and strategic recovery options.
Bain · Financial Services / Risk Management · Advanced · 35-45 min
A global bank is deploying AI and GenAI models across lending, fraud detection, and customer service. Regulators have signaled concern about model transparency, bias, and accountability. Design a governance framework tha…
Bain · Technology / E-Commerce · Advanced · 35-45 min
A $5B e-commerce company’s monolithic platform is limiting feature velocity and scalability. Built 10 years ago, it serves 50M monthly users across 5 geographies. Architect a migration to microservices that improves agil…
EY · Tech Consulting · Hard · 35-45 min
A mid-tier Saudi retail bank — ~3M customers, four legacy core systems, monthly regulatory reporting that takes ten days — wants a 12-month build of a modern data and AI platform. Budget is SAR 3.5–5M. SAMA Cyber Securit…
EY · Strategy · Medium · 25-35 min
A top-3 KSA general insurer — strong motor and medical books — is watching its direct-channel loss ratio deteriorate from 78% to 91% over two years. The CEO has been pitched embedded insurance by three startups: motor co…
EY · Sustainability / strategy · Advanced · 35-45 min
An organization wants a realistic path toward net zero and needs to decide where to invest first.
EY · Growth strategy · Intermediate · 25-35 min
A business needs to identify the next engine of growth as its current core slows down.
EY · Consumer / restructuring · Advanced · 35-45 min
A fashion brand is under pressure and needs a restructuring plan that protects value while restoring performance.
EY · Manufacturing / Operations · Intermediate · 25-35 min
A large manufacturing company wants to use AI to optimize supply chain operations—demand forecasting, inventory management, and logistics routing. They have fragmented data systems and limited AI capabilities. Build a 3-…
PwC · Tech Consulting · Medium · 25-35 min
A £140B AUM UK asset manager. Six underlying ledgers, three reporting tools, two ESG vendors, monthly board pack assembled half in Excel. FCA Consumer Duty has just bitten — the firm must be able to evidence the lineage…
PwC · Strategy · Hard · 30-40 min
A family-run UAE logistics group — AED 9B revenue, 14,000 employees, $1.2B of debt maturing in 14 months. The lending syndicate is pushing a sustainability-linked loan with three KPIs: scope 1+2 absolute emissions reduct…
PwC · Technology / business model · Intermediate · 25-35 min
A client’s traditional business line is under pressure from new technology-led competitors.
PwC · Growth strategy · Beginner · 20-30 min
A company has multiple possible growth paths but limited resources and needs to choose the most attractive one.
PwC · Operations / transformation · Intermediate · 25-35 min
A client wants to modernize how work gets done, but leadership worries about disruption and unclear ownership.
PwC · Technology / Operations · Intermediate · 25-35 min
A global tech company has 250+ SaaS applications across departments with high redundancy and poor contract management. CIO wants to consolidate to 50 strategic vendors, saving costs and improving security posture. Develo…
PwC · Technology / Organization · Intermediate · 25-35 min
A large enterprise software company has historically delivered solutions through project engagements. Market is shifting toward SaaS products and ongoing customer relationships. Redesign the business model from project t…
Deloitte · Digital transformation · Intermediate · 25-35 min
A client’s leadership team wants a digital transformation plan but is divided on where to start and how fast to move.
Deloitte · Operations / performance improvement · Beginner · 20-30 min
A client faces margin pressure and wants to improve profitability without damaging customer experience or delivery.
Deloitte · Customer / transformation · Intermediate · 25-35 min
A company is losing customers because the experience is slow, inconsistent, and poorly coordinated across channels.
Deloitte · Technology / Operations · Intermediate · 25-35 min
A mid-cap manufacturing company’s ERP system is 15 years old and constraining growth. CFO is considering buying a modern SaaS ERP versus continuing to customize and maintain their legacy system. Compare the options and r…
Deloitte · Technology / Finance · Intermediate · 25-35 min
A large manufacturing company’s IT cost structure is 60% CapEx (hardware, data centers) and 40% OpEx. Leadership wants to shift to 30% CapEx / 70% OpEx through cloud adoption and managed services. Design the financial an…
Accenture · Technology / Operations · Intermediate · 25-35 min
A Fortune 500 healthcare company operates a 500-person IT operations team with high costs and inconsistent service levels. Leadership is considering outsourcing IT infrastructure and support services to reduce headcount…
Accenture · Technology / Platform · Intermediate · 25-35 min
A B2B financial services company wants to expand beyond direct sales to a partner ecosystem. Strategy requires building an API-first platform that enables partners to integrate, create custom solutions, and access data s…
Kearney · Tech Consulting · Medium · 25-35 min
A Saudi state-owned industrial group — SAR 18B annual third-party spend across maintenance, capital projects, and indirect categories. Purchase-to-pay is manual and paper-driven, with a 23-day cycle time. Vision 2030 man…
Kearney · Strategy · Easy · 20-30 min
A global energy major's trading and supply arm has doubled headcount to 2,400 in five years. Two regional desks are increasingly fighting over the same flow. Return on capital has slipped from 28% to 17%. The COO wants a…
Kearney · Consumer / retail · Intermediate · 25-35 min
A consumer business needs a better promotional planning approach that improves performance without wasting spend.
Kearney · Industrial / operations · Intermediate · 25-35 min
A manufacturer needs to lower input costs without hurting supply resilience or service levels.
Kearney · Cross-industry growth · Advanced · 35-45 min
A client wants a growth strategy, but previous plans failed because execution lagged behind ambition.
Migration ROI, data-center exit, IT cost, legacy modernization.
Technology Track · Cloud & Infrastructure · Medium · 25-35 min
A mid-size enterprise runs ~400 applications across two aging on-prem data centers. Annual run cost is about $42M (hardware refresh, facilities, licenses, ops staff). The CIO wants to migrate to public cloud over three y…
Technology Track · Cloud & Infrastructure · Hard · 35-45 min
A logistics company spends $20M a year running on-prem data centers that host its warehouse, routing, and tracking systems — latency-sensitive workloads tied to physical operations. A hardware refresh worth $35M is due i…
Technology Track · Cloud & Infrastructure · Hard · 35-45 min
A manufacturer runs a heavily customized 20-year-old ERP that no vendor will support past three years. Finance, supply chain, and production all depend on it, and prior 'big-bang' replacement attempts at peer firms have…
Technology Track · Cloud & Infrastructure · Medium · 25-35 min
A financial-services firm's IT budget has grown to $300M, roughly 8% of revenue and well above the 5% peer benchmark. A new CFO wants 15% out within a year without harming regulatory-critical systems or the digital roadm…
GenAI rollout, workforce redesign, data & AI strategy.
Technology Track · AI & Automation · Medium · 25-35 min
A company's contact center handles 8M calls a year at roughly $6 per call. The COO wants generative AI to deflect 30% of volume within 12 months. The CX team worries about hallucinated answers and brand damage; the CFO h…
Technology Track · AI & Automation · Hard · 35-45 min
A 12,000-person services company believes AI can automate or augment large parts of its knowledge work. The CEO wants a workforce strategy: where AI replaces tasks, where it augments people, what new roles emerge, and ho…
Technology Track · AI & Automation · Medium · 25-35 min
A retailer's CEO has told the board the company will be 'AI-first,' but there's no data foundation, unclear ownership, and a dozen disconnected pilots that never scaled. You're asked to turn the ambition into a strategy:…
Incident response, security investment trade-offs.
Technology Track · Cybersecurity · Hard · 35-45 min
A fintech with 2M customers has been hit by ransomware. Core systems are encrypted, the attacker demands $5M in crypto, and customer-facing services are down. The CEO wants an immediate response plan and, once stable, a…
Technology Track · Cybersecurity · Medium · 25-35 min
A retailer's board is split: the CISO wants to double the $25M security budget after a peer's breach made headlines; the CFO wants evidence, not fear. You're asked to frame how much the company should actually invest, wh…
Build, buy, or partner — platforms, apps, vendors.
Technology Track · Build vs Buy · Hard · 35-45 min
An automotive company wants a connected-vehicle software platform (telematics, OTA updates, in-car services). It can build in-house, license from a specialist vendor, or partner. Building gives control but the company ha…
Technology Track · Build vs Buy · Easy · 20-30 min
A retail bank needs a new mobile app. It can license a white-label banking app platform (fast, proven, but generic) and build only its personalization and loyalty features on top, or build the whole thing in-house for fu…
Technology Track · Build vs Buy · Medium · 25-35 min
A $500M-revenue retailer's e-commerce platform is creaking and limits growth. Options: adopt a hosted SaaS commerce platform, license a packaged platform to self-host, or build custom. The CMO wants speed and rich featur…
Technology Track · Build vs Buy · Easy · 20-30 min
A company is choosing a new CRM. Vendor A is the market leader — feature-rich, expensive, heavier to implement. Vendor B is cheaper, simpler, faster to deploy, but less proven at scale. Sales wants A, finance wants B, IT…
Technology Track · Build vs Buy · Medium · 25-35 min
A consumer-goods company wants a direct-to-consumer data and personalization capability it doesn't have today. It can build the team and tech, acquire a small martech startup, or partner with a specialist. Speed matters,…
Unit economics, churn, pricing transformation.
Technology Track · SaaS & Monetization · Hard · 35-45 min
A B2B SaaS company has grown ARR to $80M but still burns cash and the board is losing patience. Gross margin is 68% (low for SaaS), net revenue retention is 95%, CAC payback is 22 months, and sales & marketing eats 60% o…
Technology Track · SaaS & Monetization · Medium · 25-35 min
A SaaS company prices per-seat, but customers are sharing logins and usage no longer tracks value — the heaviest users pay the same as light ones. AI features have also raised the company's cost-to-serve. Leadership is c…
Launches, marketplaces, engagement, retention.
Technology Track · Product & Growth · Medium · 25-35 min
A software company has built a new product adjacent to its core and must decide whether to launch, and if so, how to go to market. Engineering loves it, but it's unclear there's real demand, it could cannibalize the core…
Technology Track · Product & Growth · Hard · 35-45 min
A company wants to launch a two-sided marketplace connecting service providers with customers in a fragmented industry. The classic problem looms: no buyers without sellers, no sellers without buyers. The board wants to…
Technology Track · Product & Growth · Medium · 25-35 min
A global video-streaming service has saturated its core markets — subscriber growth has stalled and churn is rising. Leadership has relied on subscriber adds as the headline metric; now the game is retention, engagement,…
Technology Track · Product & Growth · Medium · 25-35 min
A social platform's daily active users are flat but time-spent and content-creation are declining, especially among younger users who are drifting to a short-video competitor. The product team wants to ship a short-video…
Technology Track · Product & Growth · Medium · 25-35 min
A freemium music-streaming app has 200M free users and 40M paid. Free-to-paid conversion has plateaued at 20%, content (royalty) costs scale with listening regardless of whether a user pays, and the ad-supported tier bar…
Technology Track · Product & Growth · Hard · 35-45 min
A premium consumer-hardware company makes most of its profit on devices but increasingly on a high-margin services/ecosystem layer (app store, subscriptions, accessories). Hardware sales are maturing, regulators are chal…
Technology Track · Product & Growth · Hard · 35-45 min
A large e-commerce platform built its dominance on a flywheel: low prices and selection draw customers, customers draw third-party sellers, scale lowers cost, and the loop repeats — with logistics and a high-margin cloud…
Operating-model change, automation, sector digitization.
Technology Track · Digital Transformation · Medium · 25-35 min
A traditional industrial distributor — manual processes, paper-based ordering, no digital channel — is losing share to digital-native competitors. The CEO has approved a 'digital transformation' but past technology proje…
Technology Track · Digital Transformation · Easy · 20-30 min
An insurer's back office processes claims and policy changes manually — slow, error-prone, and expensive, with 600 staff in operations. Leadership wants to automate using a mix of RPA, workflow tools, and AI document pro…
Technology Track · Digital Transformation · Hard · 35-45 min
An energy/heavy-industry operator wants to digitize field operations — sensors (IIoT), predictive maintenance, and a digital twin — to cut unplanned downtime and maintenance cost. Equipment is decades old, connectivity i…
Technology Track · Digital Transformation · Medium · 25-35 min
A smartphone manufacturer is squeezed — premium rivals own the high end, low-cost players own the bottom, and its mid-market share is eroding. Margins are thin, R&D is sub-scale versus giants, and the ecosystem (apps, se…