SOC 13-1111 · Management Analysts
Management consulting, tested on the work
Size a market and recommend an entry approach from evidence that settles nothing until someone opens it.
The assignment
What the candidate is asked to do
A short client-facing recommendation built with AI assistance, from evidence that does not fully agree with itself.
Time: 40 to 60 minutes, hard-capped 15 to 20 minutes past whatever the case states and never above 75, with a short written debrief after. Paused time does not count against either.
SOC 13-1111
Management Analysts. The benchmark is derived from live postings mapped to that code and re-derived each quarter.
What the reviewer watches for
The management consulting failure modes
Each maps to a scored dimension, so the reviewer's finding arrives with the moment attached.
Is the question the client is actually asking named before the sizing starts?
Whether the opening move asks what is true, what is wrong, or what the options are — and whether a constraint or criterion is named in the same breath.
Is the study behind the denominator demanded and opened, or cited as offered?
Whether sources are demanded for a specific claim rather than requested in general — and whether at least one is actually opened.
Is the call on which approach to recommend kept, or handed to the assistant?
Whether the split between the assistant's work and the candidate's own acts is deliberate rather than convenient, read from the record of both.
Why this bank
Why we built the management consulting bank
Consulting postings carry the third-highest measured AI-usage requirement density, and the work is almost entirely judgment under conflicting evidence.
This bank is live and has passed author review at launch quality.
https://olive.is/benchmarks · Edition 2026 Q3Named up front
Size a market and recommend an entry approach from evidence that settles nothing until someone opens it.
The construct
Six dimensions, scored separately
- D1 · Problem framing Did the first move go after understanding, or straight for output?
- D2 · Evidence sourcing Did they demand evidence for the claim that mattered?
- D3 · Delegation boundary What did they keep, and what did they hand over?
- D4 · Working structure Did anything exist between the brief and the answer?
- D5 · Output rejection Was anything the assistant produced refused, and on what grounds?
- D6 · Verification Was anything tested against the world, and did the result change something?
SOC 13-1111
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