McKinsey & Company partners with AppliedAI to drive agentic AI in regulated sectors.
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McKinsey & Company partners with AppliedAI to drive agentic AI in regulated sectors. 22 May 2026 Consultancy-me.com McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm, has inked a partnership with UAE-based AppliedAI aimed at driving the adoption of agentic AI in regulated sectors. The partnership combines the transformation capabilities of McKinsey & Company, the AI depth of QuantumBlack (a McKinsey subsidiary), and the so-called Agentic Process Execution (APX) platform from Opus to help joint clients deploy and manage their agentic AI workforce. Agentic AI is considered the next era of AI, comprising AI systems that can independently plan, make decisions, and take actions - in effect mimicking human behaviour. Unlike traditional AI, which mainly responds to prompts, agentic AI can break down tasks, use tools, and adapt its approach over time to complete more complex, multi-step objectives. Research from McKinsey & Company shows that 62% of organisations are experimenting with AI agents, but they still have a way to go in terms of operationalisation: only 23% have scaled an agentic system inside their enterprise. The research identifies execution - the ability to translate model capability into governed, auditable, production-grade workflows - as the main bottleneck. This is where the partnership with AppliedAI comes in. Its platform enables organisations to...
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