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.

Partner Deep Dives

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.

  “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.”

• 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.

  “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.”

As Frontier Alliance partners, BCG and McKinsey will help customers deploy AI across their organizations - building the strategy, operating model, and change management plan needed for sustained impact.

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 - enabling durable adoption and measurable business impact. It brings extensive industry expertise and assets as well as experience operating in environments where security, reliability and interoperability are non-negotiable. Accenture has already begun equipping tens of thousands of its professionals with ChatGPT Enterprise, the largest number of professionals upskilled through OpenAI Certifications.

  “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 organizations operationalize AI across the enterprise - responsibly and at scale.”

• 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. The company will help clients embed Frontier throughout their organization and put in place the operating processes needed to run agents consistently at scale.

  “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.”

Accenture and Capgemini bring end-to-end transformation, proven global delivery capacity, and lifecycle support to help organizations extend AI into company-wide capabilities.

Together, OpenAI and our Frontier Alliance partners - BCG, McKinsey, Accenture, and Capgemini - 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. If you want to explore working with us, reach out to your OpenAI team.