PathMBA for boutique advisory

Strengthen client research briefs with sources your team can inspect.

PathMBA adds premium business research to Claude and ChatGPT, with human-curated frameworks, company patterns, operator perspectives, and named sources attached. Your team owns the analysis, recommendation, and client relationship.

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Example PathMBA answer

Inspect the research path, not just the promise.

This answer preview connects each finding to a named source across formats and shows one possible output structure. Open a source title to inspect it.

PathMBA · source-backed answer preview
Example brief
Prepare a strategy brief for a vertical software company deciding whether to move upmarket, expand the product suite, or deepen its current niche.
Proposed output structure

A decision-ready option matrix.

Structure the options for adviser review without outsourcing the recommendation.

  • Option scorecardCompare customer economics, resource demands, capability gaps, and reversibility.
  • Move-upmarket testModel segment attractiveness against brand, distribution, and product requirements.
  • Suite thesisTest whether added products solve one complex job or create a loose bundle.
  • Niche defenseAssess retention, depth of need, pricing power, and room to expand within the core.
Source-backed findings

This evidence set contrasts positioning, an operator company history, and suite design before adviser judgment.

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Positioning should make differentiated value, best-fit customers, and the chosen market explicit before an upmarket move.

Obviously Awesome · April Dunford · Differentiated value and best-fit markets

Book
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The ExactTarget story adds an operator view of building enterprise software, winning large customers, and navigating strategic acquisition.

ExactTarget with Scott Dorsey · Ben Gilbert, David Rosenthal & Scott Dorsey · Enterprise software company history

Podcast
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Suite expansion creates advantage when integrated offerings solve one complex customer problem and increase switching costs.

A Practical Guide to Combining Products and Services · Venkatesh Shankar, Leonard Berry & Thomas Dotzel · Suite integration and switching costs

Article
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Research standard

Curated knowledge in. Your work stays with your AI.

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Specialist curation

Former business-school professors and experienced operators select material for business usefulness.

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AI-ready cases

10,000+ cases include full text, analysis, and summaries ready for your AI.

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Weekly updates

New lessons, frameworks, examples, and cases enter the corpus every week.

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Clear data boundary

Your AI agent performs the analysis. PathMBA does not store prompts, briefs, or outputs.

Professional control

Research support, not the recommendation.

PathMBA supports management research and source-backed alternatives. Your team supplies client context and pairs the material with current market and financial research when needed.

You bringA non-confidential client question or research brief
PathMBA addsFrameworks, company patterns, and named sources
The adviser decidesInterpretation, synthesis, and recommendation

Use one client question to evaluate the fit.

Send a non-confidential question, the intended audience or decision, and your current AI environment. We’ll review the source-backed alternatives and one proposed brief structure together.

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