OpenAI is enhancing collaborations with four key consulting firms as the AI organization aims to expand its enterprise sector in 2026.

On Monday, OpenAI revealed the “Frontier Alliances,” indicating that the AI laboratory is open to exploring various strategies to encourage enterprises to significantly adopt its technology. This alliance features long-term collaborations between OpenAI and four leading consulting companies: Boston Consulting Group (BCG), McKinsey, Accenture, and Capgemini, aimed at promoting its enterprise offerings.

The Forward Deployed Engineering team at OpenAI will partner with these consulting leaders to assist them in integrating OpenAI’s enterprise-centric technologies, such as OpenAI Frontier, into their clients’ technology infrastructures.

OpenAI introduced OpenAI Frontier in early February. This no-code open software enables users to create, deploy, and manage AI agents that are built on OpenAI’s AI models and other frameworks.

In its most recent announcement, OpenAI contends that consulting firms are the ideal channels for onboarding enterprises.

“AI alone does not drive transformation. It must be linked to strategy, built into redesigned processes, and adopted at scale with aligned incentives and culture to deliver sustained outcomes,” BCG CEO Christoph Schweizer stated in OpenAI’s blog. “Our extended partnership integrates OpenAI’s Frontier platform with BCG’s extensive industry, functional, and technological expertise along with BCG X’s capabilities for building and scaling to generate measurable impact with safeguards from the outset.”

So far, the pace of enterprise adoption of AI has been relatively sluggish as these organizations face challenges in attaining a meaningful return on investment from their AI initiatives.

OpenAI’s collaborative approach is logical and extends beyond merely encouraging enterprises to incorporate AI into their current workflows. This initiative prioritizes consultants in convincing organizations to adjust their strategies and operations to integrate OpenAI’s tools where applicable.

It is noteworthy that OpenAI’s competitor Anthropic has also signed agreements with major consulting firms, including Deloitte and Accenture, in recent months.

Company CFO Sarah Friar expressed in a blog post in January that the enterprise segment is a significant focus for OpenAI in 2026. Furthermore, OpenAI has secured substantial enterprise AI agreements with Snowflake and ServiceNow so far this year, alongside appointing Barret Zoph to head the company’s enterprise sales division in January.