$100-$220/hr top-tier strategy consulting work, on your schedule
Run models through case interviews and stress-test their strategy the way a partner would. Flag the MECE that isn't, the hypothesis with no support, the recommendation that collapses under one hard question.
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Hi, we're Zac and Jack, the founders of Terac. We want to talk to you directly, because you are the most important part of what we're building.
Terac is a community of experts. People who have spent years getting good at something specific and hard. The world is about to need more of you, not less. As AI takes on more of the world's work, the bottleneck shifts to the people who actually know what they're talking about.
Expert labor is the rarest resource in the world right now, and it is shockingly hard to find. The companies that need an ex-McKinsey EM's eye on a case that breaks at the second layer spend weeks chasing people, paying placement fees, and settling for whoever is available. Meanwhile thousands of qualified people are sitting with knowledge that no one ever asks for.
That gap is what we're here to close. Every project that lands on Terac is routed to the people who actually know the answer, on their schedule, paid fairly, and only when the work is verified. No middleman taking a cut of your time. No vague gigs. No chasing checks.
We care about every single person in this community. If you join Terac, you're not a row in a database to us. We read the feedback. We answer the emails. We will fight for you when a customer is being unreasonable, and we will be honest with you when something on our side is broken. The quality of this panel is our entire company, and we owe you a serious bar.
If you've made it this far, here is what we're asking: claim your profile. Put your expertise on the record. Let the world's most ambitious teams come find you for the work only you can do.
Ex-MBB Consulting questions
Still curious? Write to us at support@terac.com.
Deep vertical specialization is what makes your evaluations credible. Models often generate plausible but wrong sector analysis, like confusing gross-margin normalization conventions in PE diligence with public-company benchmarking, and a generalist would miss it. Your narrowest expertise is your highest-value contribution.
Tasks map directly to artifacts you produced on the job: problem decompositions, issue trees, synthesized slide narratives, hypothesis-driven analyses, and model-backed recommendations. You may also create worked examples showing how a consultant reasons from ambiguous data to a defensible view, using the Pyramid Principle or MECE as a reference frame.
Alumni who moved into corporate strategy, operating roles, or PE are in active demand, because their view of how strategic work lands with real decision-makers differs from a current consultant's. You qualify on your MBB training and years of practice, not on current firm affiliation.
Never. Tasks are grounded in publicly documented frameworks, Porter's Five Forces, the published Growth-Share Matrix, standard DCF conventions, and your job is to judge whether a model applied them correctly. You will not reproduce firm-proprietary materials, internal benchmarking databases, or client-specific data.
A CFA charter meaningfully expands your scope, especially financial model review, valuation critique, and capital-markets strategy where modeling rigor is the criterion. Your MBA is treated as context, not a standalone qualifier. A quantitative credential plus MBB experience places you in a high-demand tier at the intersection of strategy and corporate finance.
Why your expertise matters
A model misapplies a framework, breaks disaggregation logic, ignores second-order competitive responses, and builds unit economics that do not hold. Catching that takes MBB training, not a casebook. Your read on when output would never survive a partner review is the signal labs need to improve reasoning in high-stakes business work.
How pay works
Pay across the $100-$220/hr band tracks complexity and judgment depth. M&A diligence logic, advanced model review, and competitive strategy in regulated industries reach the top end; lighter framework annotation and issue-tree checks sit lower. Fully remote, billed hourly, paid on verified task completion rather than a fixed schedule.
What the work looks like
A sample of the top-tier strategy consulting work you would pick up. Every project is scoped, remote, and paid on verified completion.
- Flag where a model's cost-base deck breaks MECE discipline or buries the so-what in the backup.
- Check whether a model's market-entry recommendation has plausible competitive-response scenarios given real industry dynamics, not textbook Porter.
- Write a worked issue tree for a profitability problem, annotating each branch with the reasoning a PM uses to prioritize hypotheses.
- Note where a model's post-merger summary skips a step a partner would send back for revision.
- Rate a model's LBO sensitivity tables, flagging where assumption ranges are unrealistically narrow or circular.
- Compare two model answers on an operating-model redesign and explain which better reflects how a real team sizes and phases the workstreams.
Specialties we match
Ex-MBB Consulting projects span a wide range of focus areas. Tell us where you go deep and we route the work that fits.
- MECE issue structuring
- BCG/McKinsey matrix application
- Zero-based budgeting
- Conjoint and van Westendorp analysis
- Mercer/Value-at-risk sensitivity tables
- OKR and operating model design
- Due diligence workstream management
- Porter's Five Forces and Jobs-to-be-Done synthesis
- Three-statement financial modeling
- Hypothesis-driven storylining
- Agile transformation playbooks
- Market sizing and bottoms-up TAM build
