OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks at the AI Impact Summit gathering in New Delhi, India on February 19, 2026.
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OpenAI on Monday announced multi-year partnerships with four consulting firms to help deploy its Frontier enterprise platform.
Artificial intelligence startups announced the formation of the Frontier Alliance. AccentureBoston Consulting Group; cap gemini McKinsey & Company, according to the release. The company did not disclose financial details of the partnership.
Lan Guan, Accenture’s chief AI and data officer, said OpenAI’s Frontier Alliance is an example of how product, consulting and strategy firms should work together to accelerate AI adoption.
“This is a turning point,” Guan said in an interview. “It’s our time to help enterprise clients really realize the value of AI.”
OpenAI competes with competitors such as: google In an effort to gain users and market share, Anthropic has been aggressively reaching out to enterprise customers in recent months. OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told CNBC in January that enterprises account for about 40% of OpenAI’s business, but she expects that number to reach closer to 50% by the end of the year.
Frontier, which OpenAI announced earlier this month, serves as an intelligence layer that connects disparate systems and data within an organization. It aims to make it easier for businesses to manage, deploy, and build AI agents, tools that can independently complete tasks on behalf of users.
OpenAI said its consulting partners will help customers develop strategies and enable them to deploy agents into real-world operational workflows more quickly.
“We’re combining the fundamentals with thorough implementation and expertise on the ground to help companies actually make this happen,” Dennis Dresser, chief revenue officer at OpenAI, said in an interview with CNBC.
Dresser said OpenAI chose to partner with consulting firms because they have existing relationships with companies and deep knowledge of how those businesses operate. He also said the demand for AI is far greater than any company can meet on its own.
Fernando Alvarez, Capgemini’s chief strategic development officer, said OpenAI is counting on Frontier Alliance to deploy its technology at scale.
“It’s not an easy job,” Alvarez said in an interview with CNBC. “If it were a walk in the park, OpenAI would have done it themselves. So we recognize that it takes a village.”
The consulting firm works with OpenAI forward deployment engineers who have deep technical expertise and are directly embedded in various businesses.
The companies are also investing in a “dedicated practice group” to build teams and certify OpenAI technology. They will have roadmap insights, access to technical resources, and support from OpenAI’s product and research teams, according to OpenAI.
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