OpenAI has launched Frontier, a new enterprise platform designed to help organizations build, deploy, and manage artificial intelligence agents that perform operational work across business systems. The company also announced the Frontier Alliance, a series of multiyear partnerships with leading consulting firms aimed at accelerating enterprise-scale adoption of its AI technologies.
Frontier is positioned as a comprehensive platform that embeds AI agents within existing data, identity, and workflow frameworks to move beyond isolated experiments. The platform supports shared context, explicit permissions, onboarding, and observability — capabilities that open the door to production-grade use cases such as handling complex service tasks, automating multi-step business processes, and integrating with enterprise systems. It is designed to work with open standards and accommodate agents built by internal software teams and third-party developers.
Operationally, Frontier addresses challenges enterprises have faced in scaling AI beyond point solutions. Early adopters such as HP, Intuit, Oracle, State Farm, Thermo Fisher, and Uber have piloted agents for functions ranging from sales support to software development tasks that span multiple tools and context sources. The platform’s identity and permission controls help organizations enforce governance and security policies at scale, a critical requirement for regulated industries.
Complementing the platform announcement, OpenAI introduced Frontier Alliance Partners — a coalition of four major consulting firms: Boston Consulting Group (BCG), McKinsey & Company, Accenture, and Capgemini. These partnerships embed OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering teams with consulting practice groups that are being certified on Frontier technology. Collectively, they bring experience in strategy, operating-model design, systems integration, change management, and large-scale deployment.
The alliance model reflects a strategic shift in how OpenAI positions its enterprise offerings. Rather than relying solely on technology sales, OpenAI is collaborating with trusted transformation partners to bridge the gap between advanced AI capabilities and the organizational, data, and process challenges that have hindered broad adoption. Consulting partners will help clients define where AI adds value, redesign workflows to integrate agents, and scale deployments with appropriate governance and measurable outcomes.
This approach aligns with broader trends in enterprise AI, where differentiated model capability is no longer the sole criterion for adoption. Businesses increasingly require platforms that can guarantee reliability, security, and aligned workflows, as well as external expertise to guide implementation across complex environments. By combining Frontier’s infrastructure with consulting-led execution, OpenAI aims to accelerate enterprise adoption at scale.