Introducing Hebno: the only AI your consultancy needs
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Most firms can already generate an AI draft. The hard part is turning that draft into work a client can rely on. Here is why we built Hebno, who it is for, and how it works.
Every expert service firm we talk to has already tried AI on real client work. Someone drafts a research summary in a chat window, someone else outlines a strategy deck, an analyst asks a model to pull a first cut of findings together. The draft arrives in seconds. Then the senior person opens it, and the real work starts.
They cannot tell where a claim came from. The context is generic rather than this client's, and half of it is stated confidently and wrong. So they rebuild it by hand, and the time AI was supposed to save goes on checking and correcting instead. The draft was fast, but it was not ready for the client.
We built Hebno to close that gap.
What Hebno is
Hebno is a controlled AI work platform for expert service teams. It lets your team produce research, analysis, and first drafts with AI that work from your approved sources and your firm's own knowledge, and it keeps the result reviewable so an expert can check and sign it off before it reaches a client.
Your team can already get model access. The harder part is what happens after a promising draft arrives: can you see where each claim came from, can you tell a sourced claim from an assumption, and can a senior person review it without rebuilding it from scratch. That is what Hebno is built for.
The problem we kept seeing
A generic AI draft causes several problems in client delivery, and they add up.
Claims in a chat reply have no evidence attached. For a firm whose product is judgement, an unsupported claim is a liability the reviewer has to run down before anything goes out.
The draft is also written from whatever the model already knows, not from this firm's methods, prior work, or the material this specific engagement is built on. So it sounds plausible but generic, and a senior person has to put the real context back in.
And the quality is uneven, so review is slow. Some of the draft is right, some is invented, and you cannot tell which is which. The reviewer ends up checking everything, which is often slower than writing it fresh.
Most of the tools meant to help were made for developers, or they give you a cited answer and leave the rest to you. Neither is much use to a strategist, a researcher, or a consultant who has a client deadline and needs work they can defend.
How Hebno works
Hebno is built around four areas.
| The job | What Hebno does |
|---|---|
| Source-backed by default | Research and first drafts from your approved sources, with the evidence behind each claim and the assumptions and open questions marked, built for expert review before delivery |
| Connected knowledge | Draws on your firm's prior work, methods, and permitted client material alongside external sources, and connects to the tools and data your firm already uses, under the access rules those tools already have |
| Reusable workflows and assistants | Turns a method that works into a repeatable workflow, so one good project becomes a process the rest of the team can run |
| The right model, at a cost you control | Uses the right model for each task within the models you allow, with usage visible by team and client |
Reviewable work with the evidence attached is the core promise. Speed matters, but a fast draft you still cannot trust is not an improvement.
Hebno does not replace expert judgement or decide that a draft is correct or ready to send. It gives your experts a faster, more controlled way to apply their judgement, and the person reviewing the work remains accountable for it.
Who Hebno is for
Hebno is for consultancies and the consultants in them. Research and insight consultancies are the closest fit, but the same problem comes up in strategy, creative, and advisory work.
The daily users are the people doing the delivery: strategists, researchers, analysts, and knowledge leads. The reviewers are the client-service leaders accountable for what goes out. The buyers are usually founders, managing partners, and practice or operations leads. None of them care about model benchmarks. They care about delivery quality, work they can review and defend, and getting to a reliable draft faster.
If that is your firm, the complete guide to reliable AI client work is the best place to go deeper, and the consultancy playbook covers the client-by-client version of the problem.
Where we are
We are early, and we are building in the open. The site describes the product we are building for expert service teams, and we would rather show you on your own work than talk about it in the abstract.
