BCG Design Studios · Global · 2026
Live · 06 May 2026
Service Catalog

The creative-AI edge for every case team.

A reference catalog of every service Design Studios delivers — the in-house creative and AI capability that gives BCG case teams a competitive advantage in pitches, engagements, and transformations.

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Practices6
Current services32
AI-native services18
AI advisory7
Total catalog57
· Full index

Every service, at a glance.

The complete catalog as a single index. Tap any row to jump to its practice for the description and AI angle. The header stays pinned as you scroll — use this as your map.

CodeServicePracticeType
C.01Pitch & Proposal DecksCommunicationsCurrent
C.02Engagement DeliverablesCommunicationsCurrent
C.03Executive Briefings & Board ReadsCommunicationsCurrent
C.04Capability Decks & CredentialsCommunicationsCurrent
C.05Editorial & Long-FormCommunicationsCurrent
C.06Microsites & Engagement SitesCommunicationsCurrent
C.07Change Comms & Cascade KitsCommunicationsCurrent
C.08Translation & LocalisationCommunicationsCurrent
V.01Strategy VisualisationVisualizationsCurrent
V.02Information GraphicsVisualizationsCurrent
V.03Knowledge VisualisationsVisualizationsCurrent
V.04Data Visualization & DashboardsVisualizationsCurrent
V.05Editorial IllustrationVisualizationsCurrent
V.06Executive & Brand PhotographyVisualizationsCurrent
V.07Custom Video & Brand FilmsVisualizationsCurrent
V.08Animation & Motion GraphicsVisualizationsCurrent
V.09Explainer VideosVisualizationsCurrent
V.10Voice-Over & AudioVisualizationsCurrent
E.01Interactive PresentationsExperiencesCurrent
E.02Strategy PrototypesExperiencesCurrent
E.03Internal Tool & Product ConceptsExperiencesCurrent
E.04Service Design & Journey MappingExperiencesCurrent
E.05Workshop & Event ExperiencesExperiencesCurrent
B.01Brand Strategy & ArchitectureBrandingCurrent
B.02Brand Identity SystemsBrandingCurrent
B.03Sub-Brands & Programme IdentitiesBrandingCurrent
B.04Naming & Verbal IdentityBrandingCurrent
B.05Brand Guidelines & GovernanceBrandingCurrent
B.06Print & Editorial DesignBrandingCurrent
L.01Capability CoachingEnablementCurrent
L.02Workshop FacilitationEnablementCurrent
L.03Research InstrumentsEnablementCurrent
N.01Insights Amplification PipelineAI-NativeAI-Native
N.02Custom GPTs & Case-Team AgentsAI-NativeAI-Native
N.03"Chat with This Engagement" RAGAI-NativeAI-Native
N.04Synthetic Exec PresentersAI-NativeAI-Native
N.05AI-Narrated Executive SummariesAI-NativeAI-Native
N.06Multilingual Versioning at ScaleAI-NativeAI-Native
N.07AI Image GenerationAI-NativeAI-Native
N.08AI Video GenerationAI-NativeAI-Native
N.09Generative DashboardsAI-NativeAI-Native
N.10Synthetic Personas & Stress-TestingAI-NativeAI-Native
N.11Hyper-Personalised VariantsAI-NativeAI-Native
N.12Custom Fine-Tuned Brand ModelsAI-NativeAI-Native
N.13Brand Voice LLMsAI-NativeAI-Native
N.14AI Brand-Consistency QAAI-NativeAI-Native
N.15Conversational Engagement SitesAI-NativeAI-Native
N.16Voice Cloning & Lip-Sync DubbingAI-NativeAI-Native
N.17Agentic Creative PipelinesAI-NativeAI-Native
N.18Predictive Creative TestingAI-NativeAI-Native
A.01Creative-AI PlaybooksAdvisoryAdvisory
A.02AI Creative Ops ConsultingAdvisoryAdvisory
A.03Prompt Engineering TrainingAdvisoryAdvisory
A.04AI Ethics, IP & LicensingAdvisoryAdvisory
A.05Provenance & C2PA WatermarkingAdvisoryAdvisory
A.06Deepfake & Brand ProtectionAdvisoryAdvisory
A.07"AI-Ready Brand Kit" PackagingAdvisoryAdvisory
01 · Practice One

Communications.

Decks, documents, narratives, and the comms apparatus that wraps an engagement. The surface where BCG insight meets the client audience — from first pitch to final readout.

Services8 current
ForCase teams
Lead withEditorial
C.01

Pitch & Proposal Decks

Editorial-grade decks for live pitches, RFP responses, and competitive sells. Storyline architecture, win-theme design, credentials integration, and the visual moves that separate winning proposals from boilerplate.

AI Enhancement

Auto-pull of relevant case credentials from the BCG corpus. Win-theme drafting from the brief. Slide-from-research scaffolding. Brand-locked layout adherence at speed.

Custom GPTClaudeRAG
C.02

Engagement Deliverables

Mid-engagement and final-readout decks — the documents that carry the work. Strategy reports, transformation roadmaps, diagnostic outputs, and the executive narrative that ties them together.

AI Enhancement

Narrative scaffolding from interview transcripts. Auto-charting from data rooms. Multi-format export — board pack, exec summary, working session deck — from a single source.

Custom GPTClaude
C.03

Executive Briefings & Board Reads

Short-form, high-stakes documents for CEO, board, and steering-committee audiences. The 5-page summary that has to land in 8 minutes — and the one-pager that has to land in 90 seconds.

AI Enhancement

Long-form to short-form distillation with editorial review. Audience-tuned versions (CEO / CFO / board chair) from one master. Hero-stat extraction from underlying analysis.

ClaudeCustom prompt library
C.04

Capability Decks & Credentials

The reusable foundation every case team needs — capability statements, practice decks, credential libraries, and the narrative architecture for "why BCG, why this team, why now."

AI Enhancement

Automated credential matching to opportunity briefs. Semantic search across the case-study corpus. Auto-refresh as new engagements ship.

Vector DBCustom GPT
C.05

Editorial & Long-Form

Thought leadership, BCG perspectives, white papers, and books. Original writing and editorial direction for the long-form deliverables that build practice authority and lead-generate at the senior level.

AI Enhancement

Draft acceleration with BCG-tuned voice models. Structural editing assist. Citation and fact-check support. Multilingual versioning with house-style preserved.

ClaudeBrand-tuned LLM
C.06

Microsites & Engagement Sites

Custom-built single-purpose websites for thought-leadership launches, transformation programmes, and engagement microsites. Not marketing pages — strategic surfaces tied to specific work.

AI Enhancement

Generated from the source deliverable. Stakeholder-specific paths. Embedded chat-with-the-content RAG layer. Multi-language deploy from a single source.

v0Webflow AIRAG
C.07

Change Comms & Cascade Kits

Internal communications systems for transformations, M&A integrations, leadership transitions, and culture programmes. Cascaded messaging — exec → manager → all-staff — with templates, scripts, and rollout choreography.

AI Enhancement

Stakeholder-tuned versions from a single master. Sentiment monitoring on response data. FAQ generation from leadership Q&A. Auto-translation across geographies.

Custom GPTSentiment APIs
C.08

Translation & Localisation

Multilingual versioning of decks, reports, microsites, and video — with editorial review by native speakers. Critical for global engagements where every local stakeholder reads in their first language.

AI Enhancement

Scaled localisation across 30+ languages. Brand-tuned translation models. Cultural adaptation suggestions. Lip-sync dubbing for video content.

DeepLHeyGenElevenLabs
02 · Practice Two

Visualizations.

The craft of making consulting work visible — strategy frameworks, knowledge structures, data, video, and motion. Where analytical work earns its visual authority.

Services10 current
ForEngagement work
Lead withAuthority
V.01

Strategy Visualisation

The bread-and-butter of consulting visual craft — translating frameworks, value chains, operating models, and strategic logic into clear, defensible diagrams. The slide that earns the next 30 minutes of the meeting.

AI Enhancement

Diagram-from-prose drafting. Framework variation studies at speed. Auto-application of brand visual rules. Iteration cycles measured in minutes, not days.

Figma AICustom GPT
V.02

Information Graphics

Single-screen narratives, statistical breakdowns, process diagrams, and explanatory visuals. The unit of communication when text alone won't carry the idea.

AI Enhancement

Chart-from-text generation. Layout variant exploration. Auto-illustration of statistical concepts. Responsive adaptation across formats.

DatawrapperFlourish AI
V.03

Knowledge Visualisations

Taxonomy maps, ecosystem diagrams, capability landscapes, and the systemic visualisations that turn 50 pages of research into a single defensible map. For practice IP, market views, and category logic.

AI Enhancement

Clustering and structuring from research corpora. Auto-extraction of category taxonomies. Visual exploration of market landscapes. Updates as the underlying data refreshes.

Custom GPTEmbedding cluster
V.04

Data Visualization & Dashboards

Designed BI dashboards and custom data interfaces. Editorial framing of complex datasets — Tableau, Power BI, Looker, and bespoke web builds for client-facing diagnostic surfaces.

AI Enhancement

Natural-language query layer. Auto-narrative summary on load. Anomaly highlighting. Generative dashboards that explain themselves to executives.

Tableau PulseCustom RAG
V.05

Editorial Illustration

Original illustration for thought leadership, reports, perspectives, and high-craft deliverables. Conceptual, abstract, technical — the visual point of view that elevates editorial above the average.

AI Enhancement

Style-consistent variants from a single reference. Sketch-to-final acceleration. Generative refinement. Concept exploration at volume before committing to direction.

MidjourneyFluxPhotoshop AI
V.06

Executive & Brand Photography

Commissioned photography — executive portraits, conference and event capture, editorial moments. Direction, art selection, post-production for high-stakes brand assets.

AI Enhancement

Generative fill and background swap. Automated retouching at scale. Concept boards generated pre-shoot. Style-consistent batch processing across assets.

Adobe FireflyTopaz
V.07

Custom Video & Brand Films

Original video production — leadership interviews, client testimonials, BCG perspective films, and recap reels. Scripting, shooting, post — the full brand-film pipeline.

AI Enhancement

Script drafting from source materials. Generated b-roll to fill gaps. Auto-rough-cut from interview transcripts. Subtitle and translation pass.

RunwayDescript
V.08

Animation & Motion Graphics

Motion graphics, kinetic typography, and animated explainers. The craft layer that makes BCG-produced video feel produced, not assembled.

AI Enhancement

Generative in-betweening. Style transfer onto base animation. Element libraries from a few keyframes. Auto-rigging for consistent character work.

RunwayCavalry
V.09

Explainer Videos

Animated short-form — typically 60-180 seconds — for methodology, programme launches, and onboarding. The format that turns a complex idea into a shareable artefact.

AI Enhancement

Storyboard from script. Generated voiceover for first review. Animation acceleration. Auto-localisation pipeline for global rollout.

VyondElevenLabs
V.10

Voice-Over & Audio

Professional voiceover, podcast production, and audio brand assets. Talent direction, recording, and post — for video, podcast, and the audio layer of digital deliverables.

AI Enhancement

Scratch tracks for editing. Pickup edits without re-booking talent. Multi-language versions from a single recording. AI-music for podcast intros and stings.

ElevenLabsDescriptSuno
03 · Practice Three

Experiences.

Interactive surfaces, prototypes, and the live experiences that bring strategy work to life. From client board presentations to engagement workshops to internal product concepts.

Services5 current
ForEngagement moments
Lead withInteraction
E.01

Interactive Presentations

Click-through, branched, web-based decks for board reads, executive walkthroughs, and rich digital deliverables. The interactive answer to "we need this to be more than a static PDF."

AI Enhancement

Dynamic content swaps based on viewer profile. AI-generated speaker notes and Q&A scripts. Real-time analytics on which paths land with which audiences.

StorylineCustom build
E.02

Strategy Prototypes

Working prototypes that demonstrate a strategic recommendation in action — interactive, clickable, code-backed. The "show, don't tell" answer when a deck won't carry the idea.

AI Enhancement

Prototype-from-brief generation. Code scaffolding via AI design tools. Variant testing at speed. Live data integration for credibility in client meetings.

v0CursorBolt
E.03

Internal Tool & Product Concepts

UI/UX and product concepts for client internal tools — operations dashboards, knowledge platforms, employee experiences. Concept through specification, with design-system handoff.

AI Enhancement

Design-from-spec via AI tools. Component generation. Design-to-code automatic translation. Personalisation engine integrations.

Figma AIv0Galileo
E.04

Service Design & Journey Mapping

Service blueprints, customer journeys, and operating-model visualisations. Front-stage and back-stage design for transformation engagements — the artefacts that make change choreographed, not chaotic.

AI Enhancement

Synthesis from interview transcripts. Persona generation from research data. Synthetic journey simulation against multiple cohorts before client validation.

DovetailCustom GPT
E.05

Workshop & Event Experiences

Designed live experiences for client off-sites, leadership summits, transformation kickoffs, and engagement workshops. Pre-work, in-room facilitation aids, post-event documentation.

AI Enhancement

Real-time transcription and summarisation. Live generative visuals responding to discussion. Auto-recap generation. Audience-specific takeaways from the same session.

Otter.aiTouchDesigner
04 · Practice Four

Branding.

Identity systems for client transformations, sub-brands, and programme launches. The strategic naming and identity work that gives change initiatives a memorable surface — and outlives the engagement.

Services6 current
ForTransformations
Lead withSystem
B.01

Brand Strategy & Architecture

Positioning, brand architecture, narrative platforms. The strategic foundation that visual identity is built upon — purpose, principles, audience definition, and the operating logic of the brand system.

AI Enhancement

Competitive landscape scraping and synthesis. Audience clustering from research data. Positioning territory exploration. Narrative testing against synthetic audiences.

Custom GPTPerplexity
B.02

Brand Identity Systems

Full visual identity — logo, mark, type, colour, imagery, application examples. Built as a system designed to be operated by client teams long after the engagement ships.

AI Enhancement

Concept generation at volume. Pattern testing across applications. Automated guideline compliance checks. Model-trained brand expression for self-serve client use.

MidjourneyCustom LoRA
B.03

Sub-Brands & Programme Identities

Identity systems for transformation programmes, internal initiatives, M&A integration efforts, and product sub-brands. The visual layer that makes a strategic initiative feel like a real thing.

AI Enhancement

Identity exploration at speed. Variant testing across programme contexts. Auto-generated application mockups. Brand compliance against parent brand rules.

MidjourneyRecraft
B.04

Naming & Verbal Identity

Programme naming, product naming, transformation labels — strategic positioning, linguistic exploration, trademark screening, and final shortlists with rationale.

AI Enhancement

Generation at scale with cultural and linguistic checks. Trademark pre-screening. Domain availability. Accidental-meaning detection across markets.

Custom GPTNamestall
B.05

Brand Guidelines & Governance

Documented guidelines, application rules, and the operational systems that keep client brands consistent across teams, vendors, and markets — long after BCG hands over.

AI Enhancement

Automated compliance on every output. Brand-aware DAM with semantic search. Real-time guideline assistant for client teams. Update notifications across global users.

Frontify AICustom QA
B.06

Print & Editorial Design

Printed deliverables — books, large-format reports, signature publications. Specification, prepress, and production oversight for the rare moments when print still matters.

AI Enhancement

Layout variants from a single master. Auto-flow of copy and images. Prepress check automation. Vendor cost optimisation.

InDesign AI
05 · Practice Five

Enablement.

Capability uplift for case teams and client teams — coaching, facilitation, and the research instruments that feed into engagement work.

Services3 current
ForCase & client teams
Lead withCapability
L.01

Capability Coaching

One-on-one and small-group coaching for case-team members on craft, comms, and presentation skills. The personalised uplift that compounds over an engagement.

AI Enhancement

Personalised learning paths. AI-generated practice scenarios. Asynchronous coaching agents trained on BCG playbooks. Progress analytics across cohorts.

Custom GPTSynthesia
L.02

Workshop Facilitation

Facilitation craft for case-team workshops, client kickoffs, and senior off-sites. Method design, room choreography, and the trained facilitator presence that makes hard sessions productive.

AI Enhancement

Method library with situational matching. Real-time transcription and theme extraction. Auto-recap with tailored takeaways per attendee group.

Otter.aiMural AI
L.03

Research Instruments

Survey design, polling tools, and structured research vehicles for client engagements. Question architecture, branching logic, branded interfaces, and analysis templates ready to use.

AI Enhancement

Question optimisation against historical response patterns. Open-ended response coding at scale. Auto-generated narrative summaries from raw results.

Qualtrics XMCustom GPT
06 · Practice Six

AI-Native Services.

Capabilities that didn't exist before generative AI — productised offers built specifically for case teams. Each one designed to make a BCG team faster, more credible, and more impressive in the client room.

Services18 AI-native
ForCompetitive edge
Lead withSpeed × Credibility
N.01

Insights Amplification Pipeline

One report, automatically converted into video, podcast, social pack, exec summary, and translated variants. The single highest-leverage AI offer for any case team — one engagement, ten distribution surfaces.

PipelineRAG + multi-model
N.02

Custom GPTs & Case-Team Agents

AI agents scoped to a specific engagement — trained on the case workspace, the client's data room, and the playbook. The case team's "knows everything we know" assistant, deployable to client teams as part of the handover.

OpenAIAnthropicRAG
N.03

"Chat with This Engagement" RAG

RAG-powered conversational layer over any deliverable, microsite, or client knowledge base. The "ask the document" pattern productised — clients query the engagement output in natural language, weeks after the team has rolled off.

RAGVector DBEmbed widget
N.04

Synthetic Exec Presenters

Custom AI presenters built from senior advisor or client executive footage. Multi-language video at volume — for change comms cascades, leadership broadcasts, and async exec presence at scale.

HeyGenSynthesiaHour One
N.05

AI-Narrated Executive Summaries

Two-minute synthetic-host summary of any deck or report, rendered in <2 hours. The "exec who wants the brief but won't read the deck" solution — ships as a video alongside the document.

HeyGenSynthesia
N.06

Multilingual Versioning at Scale

Full deck or report localised into 30+ languages with brand voice preserved. Critical when a global engagement needs every regional stakeholder to read in their first language — without weeks of editorial back-and-forth.

DeepLBrand-tuned LLM
N.07

AI Image Generation

Editorial and engagement imagery at volume. Brand-locked style sheets, prompt libraries per engagement, variation passes, upscaling, and final prep — for thought leadership, deck imagery, and microsite assets.

MidjourneyFluxIdeogram
N.08

AI Video Generation

Text-to-video and image-to-video for editorial, internal comms, and engagement content. Generated footage with brand-locked style and full provenance documentation.

SoraVeoRunway
N.09

Generative Dashboards

Conversational, AI-narrated data experiences. Where a static dashboard shows numbers, a generative one explains them, summarises them, and answers follow-up questions in the executive's voice.

Tableau PulseCustom RAG
N.10

Synthetic Personas & Stress-Testing

Virtual research panels for stress-testing strategic recommendations, decks, and creative work before client presentation. Calibrated against real-world client response data — pressure-test before stage-test.

Synthetic UsersCustom panel
N.11

Hyper-Personalised Variants

Same insight, fifty industry / persona / geography variants produced automatically. The "one engagement output becomes fifty tailored versions" capability for global rollouts and segmented audiences.

Custom pipelineRAG
N.12

Custom Fine-Tuned Brand Models

Train Flux or SDXL on a client's brand corpus so they can self-serve unlimited on-brand visuals — long after the engagement ends. The defensible AI-era brand asset, and a sticky deliverable that compounds value.

Flux LoRASDXLFAL.ai
N.13

Brand Voice LLMs

Fine-tuned LLMs that write in a client's exact tone. Drops into Slack, email, and document tools — on-brand copy at the source. The post-engagement asset that keeps delivering after BCG rolls off.

Custom fine-tuneRAG
N.14

AI Brand-Consistency QA

Automated checking of every asset against brand guidelines. Vision and language models catch off-brand colour, type, voice, and composition before it ships — at the volume and speed traditional brand governance can't match.

Custom CVCLIP
N.15

Conversational Engagement Sites

Microsites where stakeholders chat with the engagement content rather than navigate it. RAG-powered, brand-locked, governed — with analytics on what client teams actually ask the deliverable.

RAGEmbed
N.16

Voice Cloning & Lip-Sync Dubbing

Re-voice any video into any language with lip motion preserved. Voice cloning for executives and brand voices, with consent paperwork and revocation infrastructure built in.

ElevenLabsHeyGen
N.17

Agentic Creative Pipelines

Briefs auto-route through specialised AI agents to produce a full asset suite overnight — research summary, copy variants, visuals, motion, distribution-ready packs. Engagement-specific creative ops on autopilot.

Agent orchestrationMulti-model
N.18

Predictive Creative Testing

Score decks, recommendations, and creative work against historical client-response data before they ship. The "would this have landed last time" check, run before the meeting that matters.

Custom modelHistorical corpus
07 · Practice Seven

AI Strategy & Enablement.

The advisory layer for case teams running AI transformation engagements — playbooks, governance, training, and the ethical infrastructure clients need to operate creatively in the AI era.

Services7 advisory
ForAI engagements
Lead withGovernance
A.01

Creative-AI Playbooks

Custom playbooks for client creative and comms teams — toolstack recommendations, workflow patterns, governance frameworks. The "how do we operate" document, written for the specific client context the case team is shaping.

AdvisoryDocumentation
A.02

AI Creative Ops Consulting

End-to-end review and redesign of a client's creative production pipeline. Tooling, vendor consolidation, workflow optimisation, capacity modelling — the "operations" side of AI transformation engagements.

AdvisoryOps design
A.03

Prompt Engineering Training

Hands-on training programmes for client teams. Prompt patterns, evaluation frameworks, and the practice of getting reliable output. Cohort-based with measurable progression — for change-management engagements where AI literacy is part of the deliverable.

TrainingCohort
A.04

AI Ethics, IP & Licensing

Legal and ethical posture audit on AI tooling and outputs. Training-data provenance, output rights, derivative-work risk, and policy recommendations — the boring-but-critical work that protects clients downstream.

AdvisoryLegal
A.05

Provenance & C2PA Watermarking

Implementation of content credentials and watermarking standards across creative output. Brand protection in an era when every asset's origin is in question — a layer most clients don't know they need until they need it.

C2PAImplementation
A.06

Deepfake & Brand Protection

Monitoring services for deepfake, brand-impersonation, and AI-driven phishing. Detection tools, takedown pipelines, executive-likeness defence — for clients operating in markets where AI-driven fraud is rising.

MonitoringDetection
A.07

"AI-Ready Brand Kit" Packaging

A productised offer combining brand voice model, fine-tuned image model, brand-consistency QA, and asset DAM into a single deliverable. The "everything you need to operate as a brand in the AI era" kit — a sticky outcome from any AI transformation engagement.

ProductisedBundle
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