A new wave of consulting alliances is central to OpenAI's push to get its Codex AI coding tool into large businesses, with Accenture $ACN, Capgemini, CGI, Cognizant, Infosys, PwC, and Tata Consultancy Services all signed on to guide enterprise clients through identifying opportunities for and rolling out the technology within their software development operations.
Alongside the consulting expansion, OpenAI announced Codex Labs, an initiative through which the company will embed its own personnel within client organizations to assist with connecting the technology to their existing infrastructure and day-to-day processes, according to Reuters.
CGI, one of the largest independent IT and business consulting firms in the world, announced a strategic expansion of its global partnership with OpenAI focused on Codex. The company said tens of thousands of its engineers, experts, and consultants are already using OpenAI technologies, including Codex, to automate tasks, improve workflows, and accelerate software delivery. CGI said its work with OpenAI spans clients in government, public safety, and commercial industry sectors.
"Codex is becoming a powerful workspace for managing agents across software development and business workflows," OpenAI CRO Denise Dresser said in a statement. "CGI's deep expertise in large-scale software transformation enables enterprises to deploy Codex across areas like legacy code modernization, code review automation, vulnerability detection, and application development."
CGI CTO Dave Henderson said in a statement that "generating business outcomes from Agentic AI isn't just about tooling or adoption, it's about engineering, embedding and integrating agents at the core of how work is done and value is created across the organization."
Usage of Codex has surged in a short window, with the platform now drawing 4 million weekly active users — a figure that stood at roughly 3 million just two weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal reported. OpenAI noted that the tool had topped 2 million users as recently as last month. Codex targets the software development process end-to-end, handling tasks that range from generating and critiquing code to working through complex programming logic.
OpenAI’s consulting partnerships are part of a larger strategy shift. The company is now focusing more on coding tools and enterprise clients, after executives called competition from Anthropic a "wake-up call." Anthropic has gained ground with its Claude Code and Cowork products, while OpenAI previously offered a wider range of products. OpenAI is also working to combine its ChatGPT app, Codex platform, and Atlas browser into one desktop application, and plans to expand Codex into broader productivity tasks.
Beyond Anthropic, OpenAI is contending with pressure from Microsoft $MSFT, Google $GOOGL, and Amazon $AMZN, each of which has been pouring resources into making its own AI products stand out to enterprise buyers, according to Reuters.