In Davos today, McKinsey announced a strategic alliance with C3 AI, an enterprise AI software leader, to help clients across industries and geographies accelerate their AI transformations.
The partnership combines the deep technical expertise of QuantumBlack, McKinsey’s AI practice, and our track record of deploying solutions across industries, with C3 AI’s cutting-edge enterprise AI and agentic AI software applications, to help clients realize significant operational gains and create new growth opportunities.
Modern business challenges are intensely complex—from building resilient global supply chains to optimizing asset performance—and meeting the dynamic organizational demands of today requires both strategic foresight and technical depth. Together, C3 AI and McKinsey will set a new standard for innovation that delivers results, at enterprise scale.
QuantumBlack brings a deep pool of talent to the alliance. For 10 years since we acquired QuantumBlack, we have been a leader in developing AI technologies, tools, and IP, including gen AI, digital, and cloud, as well as an active contributor to the open-source community.
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“The future of every industry will be shaped by AI. Through our work with hundreds of clients, we have quantified the technologies; organizational elements; and mindsets and practices that need to be in place for AI-based transformations to deliver true value,” says Alex Singla, a senior partner who coleads QuantumBlack globally.
This collaboration is part of McKinsey’s open ecosystem of leading gen AI innovators. “Working with C3 AI, we can finetune a solution to our clients’ unique context and deliver it in an industrialized and secured way,” explains Ben Ellencweig, a senior partner who leads alliances, acquisitions, and partnerships globally for QuantumBlack. “And every solution is optimized for the highest levels of privacy, IP protection, and the responsible use of AI. This makes a strategic difference in a complex, fast-moving environment.”
Initially, the alliance teams will focus on turn-key solutions that address critical challenges in the manufacturing, energy, and financial services sectors. These include:
- Manufacturing: accelerating throughput and increasing uptime, enhancing product yield and quality, improving operator effectiveness, and optimizing supply chains.
- Energy: boosting production, improving safety, enhancing productivity.
- Financial services: detecting fraud, managing risks, and personalizing customer experiences.
Our combined solutions will provide clients with:
- Unmatched speed to value: C3 AI’s pre-built, industry-specific AI applications can be rapidly deployed and tailored to meet precise client needs.
- Transformative scale and impact: McKinsey’s global scale and organizational expertise will help clients customize and deploy AI solutions that maximize impact and enable “rewiring” of organizations.
- Reduced risk and accelerated adoption: The combined expertise of C3 AI and McKinsey will help clients navigate the complexities of AI implementations, mitigating risk, and ensuring success.
“With C3 AI closely collaborating with McKinsey and QuantumBlack, our customers are assured of success in their enterprise AI deployments,” said Thomas M. Siebel, chairman and CEO, C3 AI. “Organizations that choose to partner with us can have confidence in ROI with a focus on managing risk. This is how you win with AI.”