OpenAI entered into a series of alliances 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, the platform has been created to build, manage and integrate AI agent co-workers across an entire business.
Now OpenAI has introduced Frontier Alliances, a program of partnerships with key players Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey, Accenture and Capgemini, designed to encourage takeup of Frontier.
According to a release from OpenAI, each company has signed a multi-year partnership to help enterprise customers “define strategy, integrate systems, redesign workflows and scale deployment globally”.
OpenAI did not release financial details of the arrangements.
Each of the companies will work with OpenAI’s “forward deployed engineers” who have extensive product expertise and are embedded in businesses that are shifting to AI. They have also committed to investing in teams that will be certified in OpenAI technology, which 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 income from enterprise customers, as CFO Sarah Friar outlined at the start of the year, when she told CNBC she was targeting a rise from 40%of total revenues to 50% this year.
McKinsey and BCG will primarily serve as strategists, advising customers’ leadership teams on how to implement AI at scale, while Accenture and Capgemini will be more focused on end-to-end integration and on 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 an OpenAI release. “To scale, they must rewire their businesses, reimagining domains and evolving how their people work, build capabilities and lead change.”
Julie Sweet, chair and CEO of Accenture — which is already equipping tens of thousands of its own staff with ChatGPT Enterprise — 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 set of customers. So far it has been adopted by HP, Intuit, Oracle, State Farm, Thermo Fisher and Uber, according to OpenAI. The platform will become more widely available in the next few months, the vendor said.
