AI is automating research, summarization, and analysis, so clients are doing this work themselves instead of hiring it out. Your old service offerings won't survive unchanged, but your value doesn't disappear if you shift to the higher-order work AI can't do.
To understand where to put your focus and how to position yourself, you need to start by understanding what is AI actually replacing right now. Tasks like research, summaries, and early-stage analysis are already automated. Work that used to take days now happens in minutes. Clients are starting to bring their work in-house using AI, which means selling those services will become harder over time. If you hold onto those offerings, Without evolving them, you're putting yourself at risk, at a huge risk. But this doesn't mean your value disappears. It means your role shifts.
