OpenAI Partner Network launches

June 14, 2026

Helping enterprises move from ambition to outcome with AI

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 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.

Today, we're announcing the OpenAI Partner Network to deliver just that.

The OpenAI Partner Network is a new program for partners around the world to build, sell, and deliver AI solutions with OpenAI.

We're 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. We also aim 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.

Below are some examples of joint customer collaboration with our partners to drive adoption and impact with our partners:

"AI is a top priority for Agilent as we strengthen our leadership, improve execution, and build differentiated capabilities for customers. Through a collaboration with OpenAI and BCG, we are accelerating deployment of AI across our business while advancing more intelligent instruments, software, and services. Our focus is simple: deliver faster, highest-quality insights to help our customers make better decisions."

Padraig McDonnell, President and CEO, Agilent

"eBay has collaborated with Artium and OpenAI to develop a next-generation AI customer service platform designed to enhance experiences for both customers and customer service teams.This initiative sets a new standard in customer care, where human expertise and AI agents work together to deliver faster, more consistent, and more personalized resolutions."

Dan Leiva, Vice President, Customer Service & Marketing Technology, eBay

"We set out to transform one of the most complex workflows in our business, and Bain and OpenAI were invaluable partners in helping us turn that vision into a production-scale AI solution that meets the demands of a mission-critical payroll environment. The result: an 80% reduction in wait time compared to humans and a 30% reduction in effort time for human-reviewed requests, while maintaining the accuracy, security, and trust our clients rely on every day."

David Wilson, Vice President, Platform and Technology Services, Paychex

"Our collaboration with Accenture and OpenAI is helping us explore the next generation of AI-enabled customer experiences. Through our IntentCX work, we're evaluating how real-time intent and sentiment intelligence can enable faster, more personalized, and more seamless interactions for customers."

Grant Ries, Chief Data & AI Officer of T-Mobile

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 the resources, enablement, and support they need 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 are designed to help customers identify partners with proven capabilities in the areas that matter most 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. The program is designed to help qualified partner practitioners better align with OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering teams when customer needs call for deeper deployment support. Participants will 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.

Hear what our partners have to say:

"By combining OpenAI's frontier models with Accenture's unmatched industry depth, global delivery scale, and decades of experience embedding advanced technology into the core of how organizations operate, we're helping our clients reinvent entire value chains—not just deploy AI. Through our partnership with OpenAI, we're turning AI ambition into enterprise-wide transformation at speed and scale."

Dr. Lan Guan, Chief AI and Data Officer, Accenture

"We're proud to be part of OpenAI's Partner Network and to build on our longstanding partnership that has delivered measurable impact for clients around the world. Together, OpenAI and Bain are helping organizations move from AI ambition to enterprise-wide impact. By combining OpenAI's frontier AI technology with Bain's expertise in strategy, technology, and enterprise transformation, we help clients deploy and scale AI more effectively, delivering measurable business impact and lasting competitive advantage."

Chuck Whitten, Global Head of Bain's Digital Practices and Capabilities

"Our partnership with OpenAI brings together frontier AI, BCG's expertise in transformation across industries and functions, and BCG X's technology capabilities and forward deployed engineering talent. Together, we're helping clients move beyond pilots to build and deploy applied AI at scale and deliver measurable business impact. We're excited to be a part of the OpenAI Partner Network and extend that transformative impact to more organizations globally."

Sylvain Duranton, Managing Director & Senior Partner at BCG and Global Leader of BCG X

"At Eliza we're all-in on OpenAI as our exclusive frontier model partnership, not just because of the technology advantage, but because of the mission.We share the belief that AI's greatest impact over the next decade will come from helping organizations bring these capabilities into the real world: empowering employees, serving customers better, and creating meaningful value for communities.The future of AI should belong to everyone. We're proud to be building alongside the OpenAI team to help make that happen."

Stephen Garden, CEO, Eliza

"The leaders in AI are reimagining how their businesses create value, not simply where to deploy the technology. By bringing together McKinsey's strategic and technology expertise, QuantumBlack's delivery capabilities, and OpenAI's frontier AI technology, we're helping organizations accelerate adoption, create real value, and deliver impact with these remarkable tools. We look forward to expanding our collaboration with OpenAI and helping more clients transform ambition into impact."

Ben Ellencweig, Global Leader of Alliances, Acquisitions, and Partnerships at QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey

"Unlocking AI's full value takes more than technology, it takes the right strategy, operating model, governance, and execution. By combining OpenAI's frontier capabilities with PwC's transformation expertise, we're helping clients build the intelligent enterprise: deploying AI responsibly, at scale, and with lasting impact. We're proud to deepen our partnership with OpenAI and accelerate that journey."

Tyson Cornell, US Advisory Leader, PwC

This ecosystem-led approach is central to how we believe 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 in which we're investing in that future. Together with our partners, we're 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