Paid for it
Some people arrive with the answer already packed.
They recognized your problem on the drive over. They have a framework. A case study from a company that isn't yours, in a market that isn't this one.
They're not lying. They believe it.
But they stopped being curious about your problem the moment they thought they recognized it.
An advisor already paid.
Wrong call. Wrong person trusted. Scaled too early, or too late. They know what the morning after a bad decision feels like — not from a case study. From the specific silence of a room waiting for you to explain.
Pelos de la burra en la mano.
You weren't told about it. You were there.
The difference shows up when the honest answer would cost them the relationship.
That's when the advisor speaks. And the consultant finds another angle.
