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The Consultants Who Built Vision 2030 Are Being Cut Loose
Saudi Arabia paid McKinsey at least $500m a year for a decade. In 2026 it froze payments, halted new awards and wrote a 30 per cent local-content floor into consulting tenders. The firm-by-firm ledger of what is documented and what the consultancies' own filings decline to say.
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MBS and the Consultants: How McKinsey, BCG, and the Advisory Industry Sold Saudi Arabia an Impossible Future
McKinsey earned $130 million per year from NEOM. BCG proposed an artificial moon. Oliver Wyman expanded 40% in a single year. PwC was banned for poaching. Deloitte was banned for audit failures. The complete record of the consulting industry's role in enabling — and profiting from — Vision 2030's fantastical ambitions.