Voice to Text for Management Consultants
Your insights are worth more than your typing speed. Blurt lets you capture strategic thinking, draft executive summaries, and document interview synthesis while your mind stays on the problem. Hold a button, speak your analysis, release. Text appears wherever your cursor is — in PowerPoint, Word, Excel comments, Slack, anywhere. No transcription delays. No lost thinking. The synthesis in your head becomes the deliverable on the page. Start free with first 1,000 words free, then $10/month or $99/year for unlimited.
The Typing Problem
Building slide decks at 2am before steering committee
You know exactly what the slide needs to say. The synthesis is clear in your head. But translating that thinking into crisp bullet points takes forever when you're exhausted and typing. You spend 20 minutes wordsmithing three bullets while the clock ticks toward your 8am presentation. Your fingers can't keep up with your brain, and the deck suffers for it.
Writing executive summaries that capture the real insight
The partner wants a one-pager that tells the story. You could explain it perfectly in 60 seconds out loud, but writing it takes an hour of staring at a blank Word doc. The insight is there — you found it in the analysis — but the typing barrier turns clear thinking into muddled prose. By the time you finish, the crisp narrative has become consultant-speak.
Synthesizing 12 client interviews into actionable themes
You just finished a week of stakeholder interviews. Your notebook is full of quotes and observations. Now you need to synthesize it all into three to five key themes for the team. The patterns are obvious when you talk through them, but typing out the synthesis feels like starting from scratch. Hours disappear into documentation while fresh insights fade.
Capturing hypotheses while they're still forming
You're staring at an Excel model and something clicks. A hypothesis forms — a connection between the data and the client's problem. But by the time you open a new doc and start typing, the thread is lost. The insight was right there, fully formed in your mind, but the friction of documentation killed it. You've lost count of how many good ideas died this way.
Updating workstreams while context-switching between analyses
The engagement manager needs a status update. You're deep in a pricing analysis. Switching to Slack or email means losing your analytical flow. But the team is waiting. You type a rushed update that doesn't capture what you've actually learned. The real insights stay in your head, and the project tracker shows generic progress notes that help no one.
How It Works
Blurt works in every app consultants use — PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook, Slack, internal knowledge bases. Anywhere you can put a cursor on macOS.
Hold your hotkey
Press your chosen shortcut. A small indicator shows Blurt is listening.
Speak your thinking
Say your synthesis, hypothesis, or update. Blurt handles punctuation and formatting.
Release and done
Text appears at your cursor. No copying, no pasting, no cleaning up transcription errors.
Real Scenarios
Drafting deck speaker notes in real-time
The slide has three bullets but the partner needs context for the client presentation. Click into the speaker notes, hold your hotkey, and talk through what each bullet means: 'The first point addresses the 15% margin gap we identified in workstream two. Walk the client through the bridge from current state to target state, emphasizing that most of the gap comes from procurement inefficiencies rather than labor costs.' Thirty seconds of speaking replaces five minutes of typing. Your notes capture the nuance that makes presentations land.
Capturing interview debrief notes immediately
You just walked out of a 90-minute interview with the client's CFO. The insights are fresh but fading. Hold your hotkey and debrief to yourself: 'Key insight — she mentioned that the real decision-maker on procurement is actually the regional VPs, not central. This explains why the category management initiative stalled. Follow up on regional governance structure.' Five minutes of voice capture replaces an hour of trying to remember what she said by the time you get back to the team room.
Documenting hypotheses while analyzing data
You're deep in the Excel model and notice something unexpected. Don't break your flow — hold the hotkey and speak: 'Hypothesis — the margin compression in Q3 correlates with the new product launch timing. Check whether cannibalization is higher than the business case assumed. If true, this changes the portfolio strategy recommendation.' Your hypothesis is captured while you keep analyzing. The thought doesn't die in the friction of documentation.
Writing workstream updates for the team
It's 6pm and the engagement manager needs a status update before tomorrow's team meeting. Instead of typing for 15 minutes, hold and speak: 'Workstream 3 update — completed the customer segmentation analysis. Identified four distinct segments with different margin profiles. Key finding is that enterprise customers are actually less profitable than mid-market when you account for support costs. Recommend we pressure-test this with the sales team before including in final deck.' Update sent in 30 seconds. Back to your analysis.
Drafting client email responses quickly
The client partner emailed asking for clarification on your methodology. You know exactly what to say — you could explain it in a minute. Hold and speak: 'Thanks for the question. Our approach uses the client's own transaction data from the past 18 months, normalized for seasonality. We validated the methodology against industry benchmarks and found alignment within 3 percent. Happy to walk through the details on our next check-in.' Professional email drafted in one take instead of 10 minutes of typing and rewording.
Building case study documentation for the firm
The partner wants this engagement written up for the firm's knowledge base. You lived through it — you know the story — but writing case studies is tedious. Hold your hotkey and narrate: 'The client was a Fortune 500 retailer facing margin pressure from digital competitors. We identified $200M in procurement savings through category consolidation and supplier renegotiation. Key to success was getting regional VP buy-in early through a pilot program.' The bones of the case study are captured in five minutes. Editing is faster than writing from scratch.
Synthesizing final recommendations before steering committee
It's the night before the final presentation. You need to articulate the core recommendation crisply. Hold and think out loud: 'The bottom line is this — the client should pursue the acquisition, but only if they can negotiate the price below 1.2 billion and secure the key talent through earnouts. The synergy case depends on retaining the target's engineering team. Without that, the NPV turns negative in our base case.' Your synthesis is captured. Now you can polish it into the final slide instead of staring at a blank page.
Why management consultants choose Blurt over built-in dictation
| Blurt | macOS Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Single hotkey, instant start | Click microphone icon or double-tap Fn |
| Speed | Text appears in under 500ms | 2-3 second delay before transcription |
| Accuracy | Handles business terminology consistently | Struggles with industry jargon and acronyms |
| Reliability | Works consistently in PowerPoint and Office apps | Often fails silently or loses text |
| Privacy | Audio processed securely, not stored | Processed through Apple servers |
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