OpenAI announces Frontier Alliance Partners

The limiting factor for seeing value from AI in enterprises isn’t model intelligence, it’s how agents are built and run in their organizations. We recently introduced Frontier, our platform for building, deploying, and managing AI coworkers that can do real work across the enterprise. For example, an AI coworker that resolves a customer issue end-to-end by pulling context from the CRM, checking policies, filing the update, and escalating only when needed.

Frontier provides the technical foundation. But making real impact with AI also requires leadership alignment, workflow redesign, integration across systems and data, as well as the kind of change management that drives adoption.

Today, we’re announcing our Frontier Alliances. Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and McKinsey & Company as well as Accenture and Capgemini will help customers define strategy, integrate systems, redesign workflows, and scale deployment globally. We’re entering multi-year partnerships with each firm to help deploy AI coworkers across the enterprise.

Our partners will work alongside OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team, combining OpenAI’s research and product expertise with deep transformation experience and global delivery teams. Each partner is investing in dedicated practice groups and building teams that will be certified on OpenAI technology. OpenAI will support them with technical resources, roadmap insight, and access to our product and research teams.

McKinsey and BCG each bring deep experience to help leadership decide how to start, redesign their operating model, embed AI, and drive adoption.

McKinsey brings experience leading enterprise-wide operating change, helping leadership teams align on where to focus, how to redesign operating models, and how to embed intelligence into day-to-day work. Through QuantumBlack, its AI arm, McKinsey pairs technical expertise with industry insight to help global clients redesign processes and integrate agents across their highest-value workflows.

BCG brings a proven track record in enterprise transformation, helping organizations scale AI by aligning strategy with operating model redesign, governance, and change management. Through BCG X, its tech build and design unit, BCG helps clients build, deploy, and drive adoption of AI across their most critical workflows - ensuring AI transformations reflect how the business truly operates and deliver measurable value.

Accenture and Capgemini both advise on strategy and then help wire Frontier into the systems and data enterprises actually run on - securely and reliably.

Accenture architects and delivers end-to-end enterprise AI solutions across the full customer lifecycle - from initial strategy, through modernizing enterprise data architectures, scaled deployment, change management and long-term operation. Capgemini brings deep sector experience, industry solutions, and technology-driven capabilities to accelerate AI-powered business transformation. Its implementation expertise across cloud, applications, data, and modernization ensures robust AI foundations and delivers measurable outcomes faster.

Together, OpenAI and our Frontier Alliance partners will work with enterprises to deploy Frontier and put AI coworkers to work across the organization. Frontier is available today to a limited set of customers, with greater availability coming over the next few months.