It's a terrible time for US consulting IMO. Unless you're a VAR or somehow attached/aligned with a software vendor, you're fighting for dollars that companies don't have at the moment. Folks are fighting for headcount and keeping only their trusted/embedded consultants, no one seems interested in trying something new, especially with all of the "let me LLM that for you" consultancies that have sprung up. No one with money seems to care about getting better results by switching to a different integrator, they just want to keep their jobs and not rock the boat.