Discover how Kemény Boehme Consultants (KBC) transformed their knowledge collaboration with AI, achieved impressive productivity gains and increased employee confidence in AI technology. This case study explores the partnership between KBC, TextCortex, and AICX, which led to a successful AI implementation and significant return on investment.
At a Glance
- Reduction of internal expertise search time from minutes to seconds
- 10-12% more efficient proposal creation
- Employee confidence in working with AI improved from 8/10 to 10/10
- Employee enthusiasm toward AI increased from 25% to 67%
- 94% of employees report that AI improves their work quality
Testimonial
Our consultants spend a significant portion of their time researching and preparing information for client projects and proposals. TextCortex is a tremendous help in saving time during this process, enabling more comprehensive searches, faster information retrieval, and effective preparation. Our employees benefit from improved knowledge management through access to a broader, up-to-date knowledge base. This allows them to focus more on their core competencies—innovative solution development and client care. Simultaneously, our clients benefit from higher-quality outcomes. As CEO, I am thrilled by how TextCortex has transformed our knowledge management, helping us optimally leverage and continuously expand our collective knowledge. This not only enhances our consulting quality but also increases the value we deliver to our clients. — Felix Feuerbach, CEO
Challenge
KBC prides itself on fostering active peer collaboration, a key differentiator from other consulting firms and a major factor in its appeal as an employer. Despite this positive culture, KBC faced challenges in internal knowledge and data transfer, which are critical to the quality and scope of consulting services and new project acquisition.
At KBC, as with many consultancies, knowledge exchange often occurs informally via personal networks, email, or phone. This approach is time- and energy-intensive, requiring significant effort to search, collect, and prepare information. Additionally, there is a risk that not all available knowledge is captured or integrated.
While KBC, like other firms, attempted to build and maintain manual knowledge databases, their quality and utilization remained inadequate due to lack of focus, insufficient incentives for consultants, and technical limitations in searching internal knowledge.
Faced with these challenges, KBC sought a secure, enterprise-wide knowledge management solution requiring minimal manual effort for setup and maintenance. The solution needed to integrate with existing tools to include all available knowledge, deliver comprehensive search results, and ideally leverage AI advancements to pre-process data with detailed references to original sources. It also required minimal training for intuitive use while complying with European and internal data privacy regulations.
Solution:
KBC found its solution in TextCortex’s AI Knowledge Management Platform, which delivered three core capabilities:
- Unified Knowledge Synthesis
- The platform connects and contextualizes information from diverse sources, including company-wide SharePoint, Azure Cloud-hosted meeting transcripts, and specific internet sources like Gartner.
- Rapid Proposal Drafting
- Quick creation of proposal concepts based on internal knowledge.
- More efficient market and competitive analyses.
- Support for the analytics team in coding and data analysis.
- Fast Application Development
- Tech-savvy KBC employees use TextCortex Agents/Templates or the TextCortex API to build specialized workflows:
- Company-wide KBC AI Assistant “Schorsch,” which understands KBC values, corporate language, and key employee tasks/output formats.
- Onboarding Assistant for consultants joining new projects.
- Automated document metadata capture (summaries, keywords, etc.).
- Tech-savvy KBC employees use TextCortex Agents/Templates or the TextCortex API to build specialized workflows:

TextCortex’s Security Framework
- Multi-level access management and security protocols regulate user permissions for viewing, modifying, or deleting data.
- Sentence-level source citations for all answers, with one-click access to original documents.
- GDPR-compliant, with all data and interactions hosted on EU-based infrastructure.
TextCortex has become an essential tool in our daily work within 18 months. We’ve created personalized KBC AI Assistants trained for specific tasks, such as searching internal knowledge or generating homepage content from keyword references. Key use cases include internal/external research, content creation, ideation, programming, and data analysis. — Philipp Berger, Lead Analytics & BI

Results
Over the past 18 months, KBC transformed knowledge exchange with TextCortex’s platform, achieving:
- 10-12% more efficient proposal creation, driven by drafting PPT content, PPT strawman structures, deliverables like benchmarks/product comparisons, and streamlined project management tasks (reporting, meeting minutes). Faster access to existing information sources allows consultants to integrate relevant data swiftly, improving both quality and speed.
- Over 75% of KBC employees actively use TextCortex weekly, with an average user performing tens of weekly AI interactions for knowledge search and preparation.
- Employee confidence in AI collaboration improved from 8/10 to 10/10.
- Employee enthusiasm for AI surged from 25% to 67%.
- Employees now understand how to integrate AI into daily workflows, automating time-intensive data tasks while freeing up time for creativity and client interaction.

Strategic Partnership
Over the past two years, KBC has built extensive expertise in integrating AI solutions into its business processes. Innovative AI-driven workflows developed on the TextCortex platform have been successfully implemented. These insights and best practices are now shared with KBC’s consulting clients and TextCortex’s customers.
The success of this collaboration has led KBC and TextCortex to deepen their partnership. Together, they are developing additional AI use cases, combining KBC’s consulting expertise with TextCortex’s AI technology to deliver greater value to shared clients. KBC’s own knowledge management transformation serves as a blueprint for future implementations.
About KBC:

Kemény Boehme Consultants SE (KBC Consultants) is an international management consultancy headquartered in Munich, delivering tailored solutions since 2007. The firm specializes in Supply Chain Management, Product Development, and Aftersales, with additional expertise in Digitalization, Sustainability, Analytics, AI, and Business Intelligence. Known for efficient, straightforward consulting spanning strategy to operational management, KBC focuses primarily on the technology and automotive industries.
As a Generative AI assistant, TextCortex functions as a private knowledge tutor too, granting beginner staff immediate access to company resources for mentorship and assistance. By doing so, their progress and initial training is amplified significantly.
Moreover, TextCortex’s platform ensures that sensitive information remains secure, adhering to the strictest data privacy and compliance standards, a crucial requirement for a management consultancy like KBC.
Smooth onboarding and education with AICX

While TextCortex provided the technological backbone and a well-documented self study environment, our trusted Ecosystem Partner AICX played a pivotal role in the onboarding. AICX worked closely with KBC to help employees understand TextCortex’s capabilities and best practices for leveraging AI in their daily tasks.
Together, we achieved a remarkable 70% activation rate within just a few weeks.