Before KPMG started selling its AI-deployment model to enterprise clients, it sold it to OpenAI.
The frontier lab hired KPMG to build an internal Supply Chain & Fulfillment Orchestration platform — essentially asking the consulting firm to design the kind of AI-native workflow system that KPMG now intends to sell broadly.
That “client-zero” deployment, as KPMG calls it, is the foundation of a new alliance between the two companies announced today, in which KPMG has been named an OpenAI Elite Partner — the highest tier in OpenAI’s partner network. After partnering to design and deploy an AI-native Supply Chain & Fulfillment Orchestration platform, now they are taking that model to market together.
Colleen Kapase, Vice President of Strategic Global Partnerships and Ecosystems at OpenAI, told Fortune that Elite Partner status is reserved for a “limited group of global partners” that have the reach, scale and delivery capabilities to support enterprise AI adoption worldwide.
“We’re beyond experimentation,” Chad Seiler, KPMG’s U.S. industry leader for technology, media and telecommunications, told me in an interview. “This is about large-scale enterprise deployment.”
