OpenAI entered into a series of collaborations with some of the world’s leading consulting firms to accelerate the roll-out of its recently released enterprise AI platform, Frontier.
Unveiled in early February, platform Designed to create, manage, and integrate AI agent collaboration across businesses.
Now OpenAI has introduced the Frontier Alliance, a program of partnerships with major players Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey, Accenture and Capgemini, designed to encourage Frontier’s acquisition.
according to a release With OpenAI, each company has signed a multi-year partnership to help enterprise customers “define strategy, integrate systems, redesign workflows, and deploy at scale globally.”
OpenAI did not release financial details of the arrangements.
Each company will work with OpenAI’s “forward deployed engineers” who have extensive product expertise and are involved in businesses that are shifting to AI. They have also committed to investing in teams that will be certified in OpenAI technology, who will be supported by technical resources, roadmap insights, and access to the company’s product and research experts.
The goal is to boost OpenAI’s annual revenue from enterprise customers, as CFO Sarah Fryer explained at the beginning of the year, when she told CNBC that she was aiming for an increase of 40% to 50% of total revenue this year.
McKinsey and BCG will primarily serve as strategists, advising clients’ leadership teams on implementing AI at scale, while Accenture and Capgemini will focus more on end-to-end integration and securely connecting AI agents to businesses’ existing systems.
“CEOs and business leaders face unprecedented challenges in capturing value with agentic AI,” Bob Sternfels, global managing partner of McKinsey, said in the OpenAI release. “To scale, they will have to restructure their businesses, reimagine the domains and evolve the way their people work, build capabilities and lead change.”
Julie Sweet, President and CEO of Accenture – who is already equipped Thousands of ChatGPT Enterprise employees – said in the release: “Business transformation requires more than great models – it requires end-to-end execution across technology, data, security and change management.”
The Frontier platform is currently available to a limited number of customers. According to OpenAI, so far it has been adopted by HP, Intuit, Oracle, State Farm, Thermo Fisher, and Uber. The vendor said the platform will become more widely available in the next few months.
