OpenAI partners with McKinsey, BCG, Accenture, and Capgemini to push its Frontier AI agent platform

OpenAI is enlisting some of the world’s biggest consulting firms in its fight to dominate the enterprise AI market.Today the AI company announced partnerships with Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Company, Accenture, and Capgemini that will see the consulting firms helping to sell and implement OpenAI’s new Frontier AI agent platform. The consultants will help their clients redesign workflows, integrate AI agents with software tools and systems, help clients with change management, and provide industry-specific expertise OpenAI doesn’t have in-house.

Frontier, which OpenAI debuted earlier this month, is a system that allows businesses and organizations to build, deploy, supervise, and govern AI agents. It is part of OpenAI’s effort to seize momentum in the enterprise AI market from its arch rival Anthropic, which over the past year has made substantial inroads in the business market with its Claude Code and, more recently, its Claude Cowork products.

At the same time, the new partnership could spell trouble for established software-as-a-service vendors such as Salesforce, Workday, Microsoft, and ServiceNow. All of these companies also depend on so-called “systems........

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