Wedoany.com Report on Feb 24th, OpenAI recently announced the establishment of a "Frontier Alliance" with four global consulting giants—Boston Consulting Group (BCG), McKinsey & Company, Accenture, and Capgemini. The alliance aims to help enterprise clients move artificial intelligence technology from the proof-of-concept stage to full-scale implementation through deep collaboration, enabling the intelligent transformation of core business processes.
The alliance is built on OpenAI's newly launched Frontier platform, which pairs OpenAI's deployment engineers with consulting teams to jointly support enterprises in integrating AI agents into key business areas such as software development, sales, and customer support. This move represents a concrete implementation of CEO Sam Altman's enterprise client strategy, which he has emphasized over the past few months. In December of last year, OpenAI appointed former Slack CEO Denise Dresser as Chief Revenue Officer to accelerate its expansion into the enterprise market.
Although OpenAI has previously engaged in sporadic collaborations with consulting firms, Dresser stated that the core objective of this alliance is to deeply embed AI into the core workflows of enterprises, rather than limiting it to isolated technical experiments. In an interview, she noted, "Enterprises need more than cautious pilots; they need a clear path and tangible help to truly grow and adopt this technology."
The Frontier platform serves as the technical foundation for this collaboration. The platform includes a "context layer" capable of connecting various data and applications scattered across an enterprise, effectively breaking down data silos and addressing common obstacles in the large-scale application of AI. Enterprises can build AI agents on the platform that can share skills and memories across different workflows, all managed through a built-in observability system. Products like ChatGPT Enterprise are also integrated into the overall solution.
Dresser emphasized that deploying AI in isolation cannot deliver real business value or drive organizational transformation. She believes that the establishment of the "Frontier Alliance" reflects OpenAI's ongoing recognition of AI as a profound technological shift—one that requires not just software sales but systemic capability co-creation.
Under the alliance's collaborative model, OpenAI engineers and consulting teams will jointly provide employee training and implementation support to clients. Dresser anticipates that enterprises partnering with consulting firms will gradually become self-sufficient and ultimately capable of independently driving their own transformation. "We don't want to build a model where we do everything. Our goal is to make customers self-sufficient," she said.
In the increasingly competitive enterprise AI market, OpenAI faces challenges from rivals such as Anthropic and Google. Through the "Frontier Alliance" model, OpenAI aims to complement the capabilities of the world's top consulting firms while maintaining technological openness, helping enterprise clients gain closer technical support and research collaboration without replacing their existing systems.
