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It depends on what you mean by "sustainable." Is it going to create a sustainable business model that will displace the whole analyst labor/consulting market? No. A significant portion? Probably not. Will it create opportunities for firms needing analysis to get it done cheaply and for non-traditional or inexperienced analyst to show their stuff? For sure.

Might it lead to totally new ways of approaching problems that would never have been discovered otherwise? Most likely.

So it's not going to replace analyst in a niche that is already hot, but it will be a valuable component of that ecosystem.

I wish them the best of luck and I'm already thinking of ways my company could use this.