The limiting factor for seeing value from AI in the enterprise is no longer model capabilities. Instead, it's how organizations repeatably identify the right use cases, redesign workflows, integrate with existing systems, and drive adoption and change management at scale.
Helping every organization adopt OpenAI's frontier models and products and turn them into measurable impact requires an ecosystem of trusted partners with deep industry expertise, global delivery capacity, and customer relationships.
OpenAI is announcing the OpenAI Partner Network to address this need.
The OpenAI Partner Network is a new program for partners around the world to build, sell, and deliver AI solutions with OpenAI.
OpenAI is investing $150 million to support this ecosystem and help partners bring the benefits of AI to more organizations more quickly. The OpenAI Partner Network launches with a select group of global partners with AI leadership across systems integration, management consulting, technology, and data. OpenAI also aims to train and enable 300,000 certified consultants by the end of 2026.
Helping Enterprises Move from Ambition to Outcome with AI
Organizations across every industry are ready to transform how they operate with AI. But executing that change well requires both access to frontier models and clear strategy, secure integration with enterprise systems and data, workflow redesign, responsible deployment, and change management that helps people adopt new ways of working.
Partners play a critical role in each of those steps. They help customers understand where AI can create the most value, build solutions that fit their operating environment, and deploy them with the reliability, governance, and support enterprises expect.
Several examples of joint customer collaboration with OpenAI's partners highlight adoption and impact:
Agilent & BCG: Agilent's President and CEO Padraig McDonnell noted that AI is a top priority as the company strengthens its leadership and builds differentiated capabilities for customers. Through collaboration with OpenAI and BCG, Agilent is accelerating deployment of AI across its business while advancing more intelligent instruments, software, and services.
eBay & Artium: eBay's VP of Customer Service & Marketing Technology Dan Leiva shared that eBay collaborated with Artium and OpenAI to develop a next-generation AI customer service platform, setting a new standard where human expertise and AI agents work together for faster, more consistent, and more personalized resolutions.
Paychex & Bain: Paychex VP David Wilson described how Bain and OpenAI helped transform one of the company's most complex workflows into a production-scale AI solution, achieving an 80% reduction in wait time compared to humans and a 30% reduction in effort time for human-reviewed requests.
T-Mobile & Accenture: T-Mobile's Chief Data & AI Officer Grant Ries noted that collaboration with Accenture and OpenAI is helping explore the next generation of AI-enabled customer experiences through real-time intent and sentiment intelligence.
How the OpenAI Partner Network Works
The OpenAI Partner Network makes it easier and more flexible for partners to work with OpenAI, whether they are co-selling, deploying, building, or helping customers connect to OpenAI technology. The program recognizes partners for the value they create and gives them access to resources, enablement, and support needed to build successful AI practices. Partners can progress through three tiers: Select, Advanced, and Elite, each with a high bar for sales performance, technical capability, co-sell engagement, and deployment experience.
As the platform evolves, partners will also be able to earn specializations that signal deeper expertise in high-impact areas such as Codex, cybersecurity, and agents. These specializations help customers identify partners with proven capabilities in the areas most relevant to their AI transformation, while giving partners a clearer path to build expertise, stay current with OpenAI's rapid product delivery cycles, and bring more targeted solutions to market.
For partners working on complex enterprise deployments, OpenAI is also piloting a Forward Deployed Experts program with a set of founding partners. This program helps qualified partner practitioners better align with OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering teams when customer needs call for deeper deployment support. Participants gain exposure to OpenAI technologies, playbooks, and transformation patterns, helping them bring more OpenAI-native expertise into customer environments.
Building a Global Ecosystem for AI Transformation
The OpenAI Partner Network brings together a diverse set of organizations with complementary strengths. Some partners help customers define strategy and redesign operating models. Others integrate AI into complex technology environments, build industry-specific solutions, modernize data foundations, or help organizations manage change across global workforces.
Partner perspectives include:
Accenture – Dr. Lan Guan, Chief AI and Data Officer, highlighted that by combining OpenAI's frontier models with Accenture's industry depth and global delivery scale, they are helping clients reinvent entire value chains at speed and scale.
Bain – Chuck Whitten, Global Head of Bain's Digital Practices, emphasized that together, OpenAI and Bain are helping organizations move from AI ambition to enterprise-wide impact, delivering measurable business results and lasting competitive advantage.
BCG – Sylvain Duranton, Managing Director & Senior Partner at BCG and Global Leader of BCG X, noted the partnership brings together frontier AI, BCG's transformation expertise, and BCG X's engineering talent to help clients deploy applied AI at scale.
Eliza – CEO Stephen Garden described Eliza as all-in on OpenAI as its exclusive frontier model partnership, sharing the belief that AI's greatest impact will come from helping organizations bring capabilities into the real world.
McKinsey / QuantumBlack – Ben Ellencweig, Global Leader of Alliances at QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, stated that by bringing together McKinsey's strategic expertise, QuantumBlack's delivery capabilities, and OpenAI's frontier AI technology, they are helping organizations accelerate adoption and create real value.
PwC – Tyson Cornell, US Advisory Leader, emphasized that combining OpenAI's frontier capabilities with PwC's transformation expertise helps clients build the intelligent enterprise and deploy AI responsibly at scale.
This ecosystem-led approach is central to how OpenAI believes AI will create value. No single company can deliver every solution, in every market, for every customer. By working with partners, OpenAI can help more organizations access AI in ways that are practical, trusted, and aligned to their needs.
Expanding Access to AI's Benefits
AI is becoming a new foundation for how organizations operate. Realizing its full potential will require deep collaboration between OpenAI, partners, and customers.
The OpenAI Partner Network is one way OpenAI is investing in that future. Together with its partners, OpenAI is working to bring the benefits of AI to enterprises around the world.
Partners interested in building with OpenAI can learn more at https://openai.com/business/partners/.