Altman Sends Consultants to Poor House as OpenAI and McKinsey Plot Corporate Takeover

Bad news for every insufferable consultant who claims AI is completely useless and that they can double their clients revenue (despite not lifting a single finger to actually help the business)... 

Sam Altman just opened Pandora’s box.

OpenAI is locking arms with Accenture, Boston Consulting Group, Capgemini, and McKinsey & Company in what it’s calling the “Frontier Alliances.” Translation? The lab that gave the world ChatGPT is done playing around with cute enterprise pilots. It wants to wire AI directly into the bloodstream of corporate America (and in turn send every wannabe consultant back to Indeed in search of a job).

Earlier this month, OpenAI unveiled an enterprise platform called Frontier. Think of it as an intelligence layer that sits on top of a company’s chaotic tech stack… stitching together data, apps, and workflows similar to Claudebot… except this bot answers emails and writes code.

Instead of just selling software licenses and wishing clients “good luck,” OpenAI is embedding its forward-deployed engineers alongside armies of consultants to jam AI agents into real production workflows. We’re talking software development, sales, customer support, you know… the whole nine yards.

(Source: Fortune)

This comes after Denise Dresser, OpenAI’s chief revenue officer (and former Slack CEO), admitted siloed AI deployments don’t transform companies. They just make executives feel futuristic during earnings calls.

That’s where the final boss of consultants come in (read: McKinsey)...

The partnership makes a ton of sense because these firms already have the keys to the executive suite. They know where the bodies (and the bad data) are buried. And more importantly, they know how to hold a Fortune 500 board’s hand while explaining that “AI enablement” may or may not involve a suspicious number of empty desks next quarter.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said enterprises already account for roughly 40% of OpenAI’s revenue… and she expects that to push toward 50% by year-end. For a company not expected to be profitable until our grandkids are inhabiting Mars… that could be YUGE.

(Source: Yahoo Finance)

Of course, OpenAI isn’t the only gladiator in the arena. Google and Anthropic are sprinting toward the same enterprise wallets, pitching their own flavors of AI transformation.

But here’s the difference. OpenAI seems to realize that selling raw models isn’t enough. Enterprises need more than intelligence… they need integration. Governance. Training. You know, someone to sit in the conference room and explain why the AI agent just booked 400 sales meetings in Iceland.

So instead of trying to do it all alone, OpenAI is building a village. And if this lands? Don’t be shocked when some perfectly moisturized McKinsey associate ends up on a Zoom call walking you through an “AI enablement roadmap” that will 100% eliminate your entire department in 12 months. We’ve crossed into the “automation has a badge” timeline.

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