Consulting & Advisory

How mature is each company’s AI governance? We score it from primary evidence (regulatory filings, job postings, and governance disclosures), never from press releases.

How we score this

Rankings

Consulting & Advisory

How mature is each company’s AI governance? We score it from primary evidence (regulatory filings, job postings, and governance disclosures), never from press releases.

How we score this

91%

Board Oversight

Boards enact oversight more than they announce it — substance leads signal.

91% carry an operative board mechanism vs 68% that only state one · +23pp · Nasdaq-100 · n=66

Governance Is Not Bought

Firm size and resources explain almost none of it. Governance maturity is not a function of how big you are.

Apparatus depth vs. size: R²≈0.06 · confound-independent

15%

Who Actually Staffs It

Most "AI-governance" roles are mislabeled build roles. Only ~15% actually govern.

Role-anchored govern-share · covered panel · bank-weighted

0.82κ

Media DO / SAY Reversal

Some govern quietly; others announce it loudly. The two rarely coincide.

M-channel DO vs SAY · agreement κ=0.82

+25pp

Substance Leads or Lags

On the board channel, substance comes before the announcement, not after.

Board substance premium +25pp · cross-channel timing pending

Firm

Ranked by

Ethical Advancement

68.7

Boston Consulting Group

66.9

PwC

64.8

KPMG

64.5

McKinsey & Company

61.9

Deloitte

59.1

FTI ConsultingFCN

50.3

Foundational Obligations

Bain & Company

49.2

Alvarez & Marsal

48.3

AlixPartners

34.0

Ethical AdvancementL3–L47 firms

68.65

66.90

64.78

64.49

61.92

6Over

59.08

7Under

50.27

Foundational ObligationsL1–L23 firms

8Over

49.17

48.25

34.00