OpenAI is making a major play for the corporate world by joining forces with four of the biggest consulting firms on the planet. On Monday, the company announced the launch of the “Frontier Alliance,” a new program anchored by industry heavyweights BCG, McKinsey, Accenture, and Capgemini. The goal is simple: help businesses stop just experimenting with AI and start using it to run their daily operations.
Under this new initiative, OpenAI will send its own engineers to work directly alongside teams from these consulting firms. Together, they will help companies integrate AI “agents” into core parts of their business, such as software development, customer support, and sales. This hands-on approach aims to solve the technical headaches that often stop companies from fully adopting new technology.
Denise Dresser, OpenAI’s chief revenue officer and former CEO of Slack, explained that businesses need more than just access to software. She noted that corporate clients often get stuck running small experiments that never turn into company-wide solutions. “Enterprises don’t just need caution. They actually need a path, and they need help so that they can grow and adopt this technology,” Dresser said.
A key part of the deal is OpenAI’s new Frontier platform. It includes features designed to connect a company’s scattered data and applications, which is often a major hurdle for IT departments. This allows businesses to build AI agents that share skills and memory across different workflows, fixing the problem of “siloed” AI projects that don’t actually change how a company functions.
While OpenAI is providing hands-on help now, the long-term plan isn’t to stay involved forever. Dresser emphasized that the alliance is about teaching companies to manage the tech themselves. “We do not want to build a model where we are doing the work. We want our customers to become self-sufficient,” she added.
This move comes as the race for enterprise dollars heats up. OpenAI is fighting for market share against rivals like Anthropic and tech giants like Google. By embedding its experts directly into these consulting firms, OpenAI hopes to give itself an edge in proving that its AI can solve real-world business problems better than the competition.
