OpenAI Just Launched a Major Alliance With McKinsey and Other Consulting Giants

OpenAI is spinning up an ambitious go-to-market strategy for its new AI co-worker platform.

BY BEN SHERRY, STAFF REPORTER @BENLUCASSHERRY

The McKinsey & Company booth during the Mobile World Congress at the Fira de Barcelona in Spain. Photo: Getty Images

OpenAI is partnering with some of the world’s largest consulting agencies to transform enterprises with AI agents. 

The company has just announced an initiative called Frontier Alliances, which it developed in collaboration with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), McKinsey & Company, Accenture, and Capgemini. Teams from these consultancies will work with OpenAI to assist enterprises in learning how to use Frontier, the ChatGPT-maker’s recently released platform for building and managing AI co-workers.

In a press release, OpenAI wrote that “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.” To help enterprises overcome this barrier, OpenAI is combining the technical skill of its forward-deployed engineering teams with “deep transformation experience and global delivery teams.” 

OpenAI is betting big on AI agents, which are essentially AI models that have been outfitted with tools that enable them to take actions on your computer, like creating files, searching the internet, and using software applications. OpenAI’s Frontier platform, released earlier this month, is a business-focused system for creating AI agents that can function like virtual coworkers. 

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According to OpenAI, both McKinsey and BCG will be responsible for high-level stuff, like helping clients build an AI coworker strategy, an operating model, and a change-management plan, while Accenture and Capgemini will help more with the technical implementation and lifecycle support of connecting AI coworkers to enterprise systems and data. 

It’s worth noting that several of these consultancies have similar deals with other AI labs that compete directly with OpenAI. For example, in 2024 McKinsey announced a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud to help deploy Gemini across enterprises, and in December 2025, Accenture announced a sweeping partnership with Anthropic to help enterprise clients use Claude models. 

McKinsey will assist leadership teams in aligning on “where to focus, how to redesign operating models, and how to embed intelligence into day-to-day work,” while BCG will ensure that “AI transformations reflect how the business truly operates and deliver measurable value.” 

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