The Olive Community
Grow your IT consulting practice with peers who are doing the same.
The Olive Community is a network of IT consultants who share real client use cases, learn from each other in live sessions, and get early access to Olive's research and evaluation tools.
The network
A network built for IT consultants
The consulting industry is changing fast. Consultants need new ways to deliver more value, stay competitive and grow their practices. The Olive Community is where IT consultants connect with peers, share what works with real clients, and get resources that help them build stronger practices.
“The Olive Community is building the future of IT consulting and I believe every consultant with a vision to the future should be a part of it.”
Skip Kimpel, President, Magic Gate Consulting
Join the Olive Community
After you sign up, the Olive team reaches out to welcome you and invite you to the community's sessions.
Member benefits
What members get
Knowledge sharing
Knowledge-share sessions on real business, technology and AI consulting use cases.
Peer-led insights you can apply in your own practice.
Tools and research
Early access to Olive's research and vendor evaluation tools.
RFP requirement templates to start client work from.
Networking and visibility
Private channels with a network of IT consultants.
Speak at sessions, be featured in the newsletter, write for the blog, and carry an author profile on Olive's research site.
Influence on the roadmap
Shape the Olive platform's roadmap with your feedback.
Help consultants and their clients become their own analysts.
Authorship
Publish the evaluations you run
Members who run evaluations in Olive can publish them as reports on Olive's research site, under their firm's name and with an author profile. Founding authors are listed first. Publishing needs an Olive account. Joining the community does not.
See how consultant submissions work
Rankings are not for sale, to vendors or to consultants, and authorship does not set anyone's position. Read the methodology
Where to start
Three ways consultants work with Olive
- Step 1
Join the community
Peers, live sessions and early access. No Olive account needed. Sign up
- Step 2
Run engagements on Olive
Clients invited in, and a requirements library that becomes your IP. For consulting firms
- Step 3
Publish under your name
Reports from the evaluations you run, on Olive's research site. Consultant submissions