OpenAI launches Frontier Alliances with BCG, McKinsey, Accenture, and Capgemini

On February 23, 2026, OpenAI announced Frontier Alliances, a new partner program built around the company’s Frontier platform. OpenAI’s premise is that the main barrier to enterprise AI value is no longer raw model intelligence, but the operational work required to build, deploy, and manage AI coworkers inside real organizations. In that framing, the technology stack is necessary, but it does not by itself solve leadership alignment, workflow redesign, systems integration, or adoption.

To close that gap, OpenAI said it is entering multi-year partnerships with four global firms: Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Company, Accenture, and Capgemini. The split of responsibilities is deliberate. McKinsey and BCG are positioned as strategy, operating-model, and change-management partners that can help leadership teams decide where to start and how to redesign work around agents. Accenture and Capgemini are positioned as end-to-end implementation partners that can integrate Frontier with enterprise systems and data at production scale.

OpenAI said the partners will work alongside its Forward Deployed Engineering team, which is meant to connect OpenAI research and product expertise with the partner firms’ delivery capacity. Each firm is investing in dedicated practice groups and building teams that will be certified on OpenAI technology. OpenAI, for its part, said it will provide technical resources, roadmap insight, and access to internal product and research teams so the alliances can move beyond advisory work into actual deployment.

The announcement is notable because it shows how the enterprise AI market is maturing. Many companies have already tested copilots, assistants, and retrieval systems, but large-scale rollout has often stalled at governance, data access, integration complexity, and organizational incentives. OpenAI is effectively trying to package those non-model bottlenecks into a repeatable go-to-market system by pairing Frontier with consulting and transformation firms that already sit inside large accounts.

OpenAI also said Frontier is available now to a limited set of customers, with broader availability planned over the next few months. That timing matters. If these alliances work, OpenAI could gain a faster route into large enterprise budgets and operational workflows. If they do not, it will reinforce the view that enterprise AI adoption is constrained less by model capability than by the hard work of changing how institutions actually run.