$90-$200/hr strategy consulting work, on your schedule
Review AI-generated market analysis, growth strategy, and recommendations the way a partner reviews an associate's deck. Flag the sizing built on a bad assumption, the strategy with no path to execution, the logic gap a client would catch. The reasoning that holds up in a boardroom is what AI labs need.
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Hi, we're Zac and Jack, the founders of Terac. We want to talk to you directly, because you are the most important part of what we're building.
Terac is a community of experts. People who have spent years getting good at something specific and hard. The world is about to need more of you, not less. As AI takes on more of the world's work, the bottleneck shifts to the people who actually know what they're talking about.
Expert labor is the rarest resource in the world right now, and it is shockingly hard to find. The companies that need a strategy consultant's eye on a market sizing that doesn't hold up spend weeks chasing people, paying placement fees, and settling for whoever is available. Meanwhile thousands of qualified people are sitting with knowledge that no one ever asks for.
That gap is what we're here to close. Every project that lands on Terac is routed to the people who actually know the answer, on their schedule, paid fairly, and only when the work is verified. No middleman taking a cut of your time. No vague gigs. No chasing checks.
We care about every single person in this community. If you join Terac, you're not a row in a database to us. We read the feedback. We answer the emails. We will fight for you when a customer is being unreasonable, and we will be honest with you when something on our side is broken. The quality of this panel is our entire company, and we owe you a serious bar.
If you've made it this far, here is what we're asking: claim your profile. Put your expertise on the record. Let the world's most ambitious teams come find you for the work only you can do.
Strategy Consulting questions
Still curious? Write to us at support@terac.com.
Vertical specialists are among the most valuable contributors because AI models consistently struggle with the tacit reasoning that separates generalist advice from sector-specific strategy work. Reviewers who can spot when a model's recommendation would be commercially viable in retail but operationally impossible in a regulated payer environment catch errors that broad reviewers miss. Your niche is the point, not a limitation.
Firm pedigree is not a qualifier; demonstrated command of strategy frameworks, analytical rigor, and client-facing deliverable quality is what matters. An MBA combined with years of independent strategy consulting or in-house corporate strategy work qualifies you at the same level as someone from a legacy firm. What Terac evaluates is whether you can identify when AI-generated strategic analysis is structurally sound versus when it is plausible-sounding but analytically hollow.
The tasks you receive will reference publicly documented frameworks and methodologies, not proprietary internal tools owned by any firm. You are reviewing AI-generated strategy outputs for analytical soundness, logical consistency, and professional-grade reasoning quality - not reproducing or validating anything tied to a current employer's confidential IP. If a task description ever crosses into territory you consider professionally sensitive, you can decline it without penalty.
Typical tasks include evaluating AI-generated market sizing analyses, competitive landscape assessments, operating model recommendations, and business case structures against the standards a senior client would hold them to. You may also be asked to write or annotate worked examples that show how an expert consultant builds a hypothesis tree, stress-tests assumptions, or structures a board-ready narrative. The work is closest to what you would do in a QA pass on a junior associate's deck, applied to AI output instead.
In-house strategy leaders who came up through consulting are well-qualified and often bring a useful perspective because they have seen strategy recommendations land in the real operational environment where most consulting work stops. Your ability to evaluate whether AI output reflects how strategy actually gets implemented - not just how it is pitched - is directly applicable. There is no requirement to be currently employed at a consulting firm.
Why your expertise matters
Strategy consulting work requires judgment that textbooks cannot encode: knowing when a BCG-style growth-share matrix oversimplifies a client's competitive reality, or when a discounted cash flow model's terminal-value assumptions quietly drive 80% of the answer. AI models trained on publicly available case studies and frameworks systematically miss the tacit reasoning that separates a seasoned engagement manager from a first-year analyst. Your ability to spot a logical gap in a strategic recommendation, flag an implausible synergy estimate, or recognize when a market-sizing approach violates the real unit economics of an industry is exactly the signal frontier models need to learn to reason well.
How pay works
Rates toward the $200/hr ceiling go to professionals with demonstrated experience leading client engagements - typically at VP, principal, or partner level - or with deep niche expertise such as private equity due diligence, defense-sector strategy, or regulated industries like healthcare or financial services where the margin for analytical error is high. Work is fully remote, scheduled in blocks you control, and paid only after your completed evaluation is verified, so there is no minimum hour commitment and no retainer.
What the work looks like
A sample of the strategy consulting work you would pick up. Every project is scoped, remote, and paid on verified completion.
- Review an AI-generated market entry recommendation and flag where the competitive moat analysis relies on circular logic or ignores structural barriers to entry specific to the target industry.
- Evaluate a model-produced M&A synergy estimate and identify whether the revenue and cost assumptions are internally consistent with the deal structure and integration timeline described.
- Create a worked example of a bottoms-up TAM calculation for a B2B SaaS company, annotating each assumption so the model learns why each number was chosen and what would make it wrong.
- Score an AI-drafted executive summary using the Minto Pyramid structure and explain where the governing thought, key line, and supporting arguments break down under scrutiny.
- Audit a set of AI-generated Porter's Five Forces analyses across three industries and label which competitive dynamics were correctly identified, which were conflated, and which were missed entirely.
- Write a rubric distinguishing strong from weak strategic recommendations, using real criteria a consulting engagement manager would apply when reviewing a team's slide before a client read-out.
Specialties we match
Strategy Consulting projects span a wide range of focus areas. Tell us where you go deep and we route the work that fits.
- Porter's Five Forces and competitive positioning
- Zero-based budgeting and cost transformation
- Private equity due diligence
- Synergy modeling and M&A integration
- Total addressable market sizing
- Operating model design
- Minto Pyramid and SCQA communication
- Scenario planning and sensitivity analysis
- Organizational design and spans-and-layers
- Three-statement financial modeling
- Go-to-market strategy
- Value chain analysis
