Consulting 1.employed or involved in giving professional advice to the public or to those practicing the profession: a consulting physician. Advice 1.an opinion or recommendation offered as a guide to action, conduct, etc.: I shall act on your advice. 2.a communication, especially from a distance, containing information: Now I hope you know the difference between actions and words? Building prototypes is action. Advice or consulting are words, in which someone else takes the action and builds the prototypes themselves based on your input. I wish people would have learned more in University than just their job description. I can't tell if this guy is being serious or not