# Collaboration pairs McKinsey's transformation expertise, including QuantumBlack, with Opus, AppliedAI's Agentic Process Execution (APX) platform.

*genai, business · news · 2026-05-22 · The Manila Times*

## Key points

- McKinsey and AppliedAI's Opus platform reduce a two-week onboarding process to under five minutes.
- Opus achieves over 99 percent reduction in manual effort for regulated industry workflows.
- The partnership targets rapid, governed deployment of agentic AI workflows for regulated sectors.
- Opus enables business stakeholders, not just technical teams, to control and evolve AI-powered workflows.
- Only 23 percent of companies have scaled agentic AI systems, mainly due to execution, not model capability.

**Companies:** McKinsey & Company, AppliedAI
**Countries:** United Arab Emirates, United States, Germany, United Kingdom

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