What does a day-to-day life science consulting role in India actually look like, and is AI changing the work?

The work runs in three phases: primary research (stakeholder interviews, up to five or six hours of interviews in a single day), synthesis (organising findings into a coherent client narrative), and deck building (translating analysis into actionable recommendations). AI is already compressing the time needed for synthesis and decks.

• A consultant who previously spent six hours building a deck can now do the same work in about two hours with AI assistance.
• What AI cannot do: frame the client's specific problem correctly or communicate a recommendation in the way that specific client will act on.
• Consultants strong in storytelling and problem-framing become more valuable as AI handles the mechanical parts, the field rewards judgment, not volume.