The companies will work with OpenAI to combine its research and products with their own transformation experience and global delivery teams. 

The move follows OpenAI’s launch of ‘Frontier’⁠, a platform for building, deploying and managing AI ‘co-workers’. OpenAI is entering multi-year partnerships with each firm to help them implement such technology with their clients.

Each of the firms will invest in dedicated practice groups and is building teams that will be certified on OpenAI technology, OpenAI said. Additionally, they will gain access to OpenAI’s product and research teams, and technical resources.

Through the ‘Frontier alliances’, the consulting businesses will help customers define strategy, integrate systems, redesign workflows and scale deployment globally, according to OpenAI.

OpenAI said BCG and McKinsey will help customers deploy AI across their organisations – building strategy, operating models and change management plans.

Accenture and Capgemini will advise on strategy and help wire the platform into the systems and data underpinning businesses.

Christoph Schweizer, chief executive, Boston Consulting Group, said the combination of the ‘Frontier’ platform with BCG’s industry, functional and tech expertise would “drive measurable impact with safeguards from day one”.

There is a need for business leaders to “rewire their businesses” in order to scale, according to Bob Sternfels, global managing partner, McKinsey & Company, who said the partnership would “help clients close this gap and capture real value”.

Accenture chair and chief executive Julie Sweet said: “Together, we’ll help organisations operationalise AI across the enterprise – responsibly and at scale.”