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QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, helps harness the power of hybrid intelligence to create unimagined opportunities in a constantly changing world.

Transform faster. Innovate smarter. Anticipate the future. At QuantumBlack, we unlock the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to help organizations reinvent themselves from the ground up—and accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth.

We do this by harnessing the foresight and precision of data and technology with the creativity and understanding of people. The result? Hybrid intelligence, a source of competitive advantage that transforms how companies think, operate, and disrupt.

Our approach is relentlessly focused on real-world impact. QuantumBlack was born and proven in Formula 1, where teams live and breathe data. As the AI consulting arm of McKinsey, we blend powerful AI and cutting-edge solutions with deep strategic thinking and domain expertise to help our clients innovate and develop new opportunities.

Our approach

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Hybrid intelligence

When technology and people work together, we can see further—and deliver lasting impact that shapes our future.
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QuantumBlack Labs

Our center of learning dedicated to driving innovation and experimentation in AI, QuantumBlack Labs is where technologists, designers, and product managers build cutting-edge tools and assets that reduce risk and accelerate impact at every stage of the AI transformation journey.
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Open ecosystem of alliances

QuantumBlack has developed an open ecosystem of strategic alliances that deliver the complex capabilities necessary for generative AI implementations.
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Our offerings

Artificial Intelligence
We partner with organizations to unleash new possibilities by putting the right people, processes, and technology in place to scale AI.
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Data Transformation
We help organizations unlock the true value of data and build performance by making lasting improvements in technology, processes, and capabilities.
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Internet of Things
We partner with clients to turn IoT into real business value with improved operations, connected products and services, and entirely new businesses.
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Digital Twins
We help organizations to build virtual replicas of their assets, processes and people by simulating real situations, allowing them to make better decisions.
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Examples of our impact

How Toshiba Tec and McKinsey are turning retail data into real-time decisions with NVIDIA
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How Toshiba Tec and McKinsey are turning retail data into real-time decisions with NVIDIA

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Partnering with McKinsey, Toshiba Tec leveraged NVIDIA’s GPU-accelerated, end to end suite to transform how retailers harness transaction data. The result? Faster, smarter insights at scale.
Merck and McKinsey accelerate and improve clinical study documentation with gen AI
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With gen AI, Merck and McKinsey transform clinical authoring
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McKinsey has partnered with the pharmaceutical giant Merck to build a gen-AI application for authoring clinical-study documents.
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McKinsey helps pioneer an AI-native approach in dispute resolution
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The American Arbitration Association–International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA-ICDR) announced the launch of its AI-native arbitrator, developed in collaboration with QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey.
McKinsey and NVIDIA create a new generation of avatars
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McKinsey creates a new generation of NVIDIA-powered avatars
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Digital human avatars have enormous potential to provide a personalized level of interaction across industries.
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Empowering telecom employees with personalized AI-powered training and coaching tools
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Deutsche Telekom worked with McKinsey experts and QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, to build and launch a capability building engine to help upskill 8,000 agents working in the field and at call centers to better meet customer needs.

Our Leadership

Alex Singla
Chicago
Global leader of QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey; advises clients on strategy, digital and analytics, operations, enterprise transformation, and value creation across industries with a focus on financial services and insurance
Lieven Van der Veken
Lyon
Global leader of QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey; draws on his extensive experience working around the world helping leading institutions in life sciences and beyond tackle challenges in strategy, growth, innovation, and change while leveraging the full power of data and analytics
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Our Insights

From machine learning operations and organizational change to ethical considerations and emerging use cases, our latest thinking on how organizations can most effectively and responsibly use AI to create business value.
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The AI reckoning: How boards can evolve
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How can boards best help guide companies through the competitive dynamics unleashed by AI?
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The state of AI in 2025: Agents, innovation, and transformation
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Almost all survey respondents say their organizations are using AI, and many have begun to use AI agents. But most are still in the early stages of scaling AI and capturing enterprise-level value.
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The Big Rethink: An agenda for thriving in the agentic age
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CEOs need a new agenda to help them and their organizations navigate the key questions around AI, particularly agentic AI.
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The change agent: Goals, decisions, and implications for CEOs in the agentic age
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Companies are feeling agentic AI growing pains. Here’s what CEOs can do to move past them and position their companies to succeed.
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Featured Blogs

Read more about our AI-driven value-creation work on our Medium blog and the New at McKinsey blog.
Framework-Centered Design
QuantumBlack Medium blog post
Unlocking the value of clean, trusted data
Just as water keeps cities and industries alive, data keeps modern organizations moving. McKinsey research shows that data-driven organizations are 23 times more likely to acquire customers, and 19 times more likely to be profitable. Data is crucial to the decision-making that supports innovation, but like water, it only creates value when it flows clearly and reliably. When data flows are opaque or unreliable, even the most advanced risk engines and AI models cannot be trusted. If data is flawed, every decision downstream is compromised.
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A decade of innovation: Celebrating ten years of QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey
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Since joining McKinsey in 2015, QuantumBlack has grown from a 45-person start-up to our firm’s global AI and engineering powerhouse—advancing open-source tools, pioneering AI agents, and transforming how organizations and the firm create value with technology at the center.

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