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3 Ways Management Consultants Can Use AI-Ready Data to Win More Business

October 31, 2025 (6 min read)
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See how Nexis+ AI and Nexis Data+ help management consultants power faster research, credible insights, and compliant AI innovation.

As a management consultant, data is your competitive edge. Whether you’re uncovering new client opportunities, shaping strategy, or managing reputational risk, it can put you ahead of competitors, depending on what you find and how you use it.

But not all data is created equal. To make confident, compliant decisions, firms need information that’s credible, transparent, and ready for AI.

That’s where LexisNexis® tools, Nexis® Data+, Nexis+ AI™, can empower consultants to turn external market signals into strategy, foresight, and growth. Here’s how:

1. Spot emerging opportunities and trends faster with Nexis+ AI

Consulting success heavily depends on being first to see a shift, to understand its impact, and first to act. Nexis+ AI helps consultants do that by transforming vast, complex data into immediate, credible intelligence.

The platform helps consultants uncover early-stage opportunities by distilling thousands of global news stories, trade publications, and company updates into concise, citation-backed insights. Instead of spending hours scanning sources, consultants can use Nexis+ AI to quickly access licensed, publisher-approved content from trusted global sources and:

  • Identify client and prospect trigger events, such as M&A activity, executive changes, or regulatory shifts
  • Surface patterns across industries or regions that signal new client needs
  • Generate tailored summaries that support business-development outreach or pitch preparation

Nexis+ AI offers the industry’s largest collection of news data approved by publishers for genAI use*, which is one reason why consultants identify strategic insights 50% faster
using Nexis+ AI.

Because the content powering Nexis+ AI comes from licensed, publisher-approved data, firms can trust that generated research insights are based on verifiable, compliant information and not unreliable web content.

* Based on reports August 2025.

2. Power smarter strategies with flexible, AI-ready data from Nexis Data+

While Nexis+ AI delivers fast intelligence, firms may want to take AI further and embed it into their own proprietary systems and workflows. Nexis Data+ makes that possible.

By connecting your organization directly to LexisNexis’ industry-leading, genAI-approved data through APIs, Nexis Data+ lets you feed reliable intelligence straight into your own tools, dashboards, or large language models (LLMs).

This gives consultants and data teams the flexibility to design custom AI solutions tailored to their business needs without compromising on compliance or quality.

With Nexis Data+, firms can:

  • Build AI applications that combine internal knowledge with trusted LexisNexis licensed intelligence

  • Train and fine-tuning LLMs using select sets of publisher-approved content

  • Enable enterprise-scale monitoring and analysis across clients, sectors, and geographies

What’s included in Nexis Data+

LexisNexis provides two major categories of genAI-ready data designed for consulting use cases. All content is cleared for genAI use and delivered with rich metadata, making it easier for your systems to interpret and act on information responsibly.

1. Licensed Global News Data

Access thousands of publisher-approved news sources, including major outlets and trade publications across numerous regions and industries. This content is completely rights-managed for AI use and enriched for easy integration into reasoning models or dashboards.

Examples include:

  • Major news outlets: CBS, CNN, Fox, The Boston Globe, EuroNews
  • Industry journals: Aviation Week, Advertising Age, Insurance Journal
  • Global wires: Associated Press, PR Newswire, GlobeNewswire

2. Comprehensive Company and Financial Data

Access detailed company profiles, executive biographies, and financial data from authoritative providers, ideal for due diligence, market mapping, and strategic analysis.

Notable sources include:

  • Morningstar and Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) for corporate structures and financials
  • Business Insider, AlphaStreet, and American Banker for market performance and sector insights
  • TheStreet.com and Private Equity Wire for investment and financial trend analysis

By integrating these datasets via Nexis Data+, consulting firms can enrich client deliverables, and scale innovation. GenAI is only as powerful as the data behind it, therefore, LexisNexis ensures every dataset delivered through Nexis Data+ is credible, compliant, and citation-ready, giving consultants confidence that their AI-powered insights are auditable, and defensible.

3. Reduce reputational and compliance risk through credible due diligence data

Clients rely on consultants to help them navigate riskand increasingly, that includes AI-driven due diligence.Nexis Data+ enables firms to quickly screen and assess potential clients, partners, and markets using authoritative people and risk datasets built for compliance.

Available datasets include:

  • Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) and sanctions lists
  • Watchlists, blacklists, and disqualified-director databases
  • Biographical sources such as Marquis Who’s Who® and The Official Board Biographies

Integrating these datasets into your AI or analytics environment allows teams to:

  • Detect emerging red flags before onboarding clients
  • Monitor reputation and ESG-related risk across portfolios
  • Strengthen advisory credibility with verified, auditable data

With LexisNexis as your data partner, you can deliver insights that meet both regulatory expectations and client trust standardsreducing exposure while enhancing confidence.

Why data quality is the foundation of credible AI

Whether you’re deploying an out-of-the-box solution like Nexis+ AI or building your own systems with Nexis Data+, the quality of your data determines the quality of your results.

Relying on unverified content introduces bias, inaccuracies, and compliance risk. By contrast, LexisNexis provides:

  • Credibility through authoritative, citation-backed sources
  • Compliance with fully licensed, rights-managed content
  • Security ensured by robust safeguards for data use and privacy
  • Sustainability via fair publisher partnerships ensuring long-term access

That’s how consultants can confidently harness AI to strengthen governance, drive growth, and maintain the professional integrity their clients expect.

Build your firm’s future on credible AI

As AI transforms consulting, the firms that lead will be those that trust their data as much as their people.

LexisNexis helps you ground every insight, decision, and strategy in credible, compliant, and context-rich information.

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