KPMG Canada and OpenAI form strategic alliance

Building on global momentum, KPMG Canada has formed a strategic collaboration with OpenAI to help Canadian organizations move beyond AI experimentation to practical, enterprise-wide transformation. As part of the alliance, KPMG has been named an OpenAI Elite Partner, the highest tier within the OpenAI Partner Network.

As the latest expansion of KPMG’s AI services, this collaboration blends OpenAI’s capabilities with KPMG’s experience and expertise in business transformation, governance, and risk management. The alliance focuses on helping organizations get more value from AI by embedding it deeper into the systems and workflows they use every day. By integrating AI into existing business processes, KPMG and OpenAI will help clients reduce manual work, making the technology easier to use and a more practical part of how their organizations operate.

KPMG Canada will draw on its own AI transformation journey, using OpenAI technologies internally to develop the experience and capabilities needed to help clients scale AI with confidence. In KPMG’s Deal Advisory practice, teams use OpenAI's Codex platform to review thousands of pages of transaction documents and financial data in a fraction of the time it once took, quickly identifying key information and producing review-ready analysis. That means less time spent on repetitive manual work and more time helping clients evaluate risks, identify opportunities, and make informed decisions about mergers and acquisitions.

“Our own AI transformation journey has shown us what it takes to deploy and scale AI within an organization. Having enabled more than 3,000 employees with ChatGPT Enterprise throughout the firm, we've seen firsthand how advanced AI capabilities can help transform how work gets done. Our experience scaling OpenAI technologies across Canada and building Codex-enabled workflows in Deal Advisory gives us practical insights we can use to help clients move faster and unlock more benefits from AI,” says Stephanie Terrill, Canadian Managing Partner of Digital Transformation at KPMG Canada.

The alliance also creates new opportunities to help organizations strengthen cybersecurity resilience. As part of the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, KPMG will help integrate OpenAI models and cyber capabilities into AI-powered cybersecurity solutions for clients, helping them manage risk, improve security and respond to an increasingly complex threat landscape.

"Canadian organizations are ready to move beyond pilots and put AI into production at enterprise scale,” says Ksenia Chumachenko, Head of Global Alliances at OpenAI. “The next frontier is embedding intelligence—and increasingly, AI agents—directly into the workflows where decisions are made, and work gets done. KPMG Canada brings the industry expertise, governance, and transformation capabilities to make that shift enterprise ready. Together, we can help Canadian businesses and public-sector organizations move from experimentation to secure, responsible deployment, and turn frontier AI into measurable impact.”