OpenAI Unveils “Frontier Alliances” to Scale Enterprise AI Adoption with Top Consultancies
Under the alliances, each consulting partner will establish dedicated practice groups certified on OpenAI technology and work alongside OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering teams.
OpenAI today announced the launch of Frontier Alliances, a strategic multi-year collaboration with four global consulting giants — Boston Consulting Group (BCG), McKinsey & Company, Accenture, and Capgemini — aimed at accelerating enterprise-wide deployment of its Frontier AI platform.
The announcement underscores a growing push to help organisations move beyond pilot AI projects to full-scale integration across business operations.
Frontier is designed to enable companies to build, deploy and manage AI “coworkers” that can perform real work — from resolving customer issues to executing internal workflows — by pulling context from enterprise systems and automating tasks. However, OpenAI emphasises that technical capability alone is not sufficient; successful adoption also depends on strategy, systems integration, workflow redesign and organisational change management.
Under the alliances, each consulting partner will establish dedicated practice groups certified on OpenAI technology and work alongside OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering teams to help clients define AI strategy, redesign operating models and scale deployments globally.
“CEOs and business leaders face unprecedented challenges in capturing value with agentic AI. To scale, they must rewire their businesses, reimagining domains and evolving how their people work, build capabilities and lead change. McKinsey's deep domain expertise and experience with high-impact tech transformations, infused with OpenAI's leading Frontier technology, will help clients close this gap and capture real value,” Bob Sternfels, Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company, said.
BCG added that true transformation requires linking AI to strategy and workflows for measurable impact, while Accenture highlighted the need for end-to-end execution across technology, data, security and change management. Capgemini said the partnership positions the company to deliver breakthrough innovation faster than ever.
Frontier Alliances aim to help enterprises embed AI into real-world operations responsibly and at scale, with broader availability of Frontier expected in the coming months.
“AI alone does not drive transformation. It must be linked to strategy, built into redesigned processes, and adopted at scale with aligned incentives and culture to deliver sustained outcomes. Our expanded partnership combines OpenAI’s Frontier platform with BCG’s deep industry, functional, and tech expertise and BCG X’s build-and-scale capabilities to drive measurable impact with safeguards from day one,” Christoph Schweizer, CEO, Boston Consulting Group said.
“We’re excited to deepen our work with OpenAI as a Frontier Alliance partner to help clients turn AI into real outcomes. Business transformation requires more than great models - it requires end-to-end execution across technology, data, security, and change management. Together, we’ll help organisations operationalise AI across the enterprise - responsibly and at scale,” Julie Sweet, Chair and CEO, Accenture, said.
“AI is reshaping every industry, and we intend to lead that transformation. Partnering with OpenAI on Frontier positions us at the cutting edge of what’s possible and enables us to deliver breakthrough innovation faster than ever before, ”Aiman Ezzat, CEO, Capgemini, said.
