McKinsey & Company is proud to announce a new strategic collaboration with HUMAIN, a leading Saudi Arabian company specializing in artificial intelligence products and solutions. The collaboration aims to help organizations across the Kingdom translate early AI experimentation into measurable improvements in performance, cost efficiency and revenue generation.
Built around HUMAIN’s AI platforms, this collaboration brings together McKinsey’s transformation expertise with QuantumBlack’s dedicated AI engineering and model development capabilities to help organizations translate AI ambition into sustained, enterprise-wide impact. McKinsey will focus on identifying high-impact opportunities and reshaping how work is performed, while QuantumBlack designs and deploys scalable AI solutions, and HUMAIN provides the localized infrastructure and applications needed to embed these solutions effectively across Saudi organizations. Additional engineering support from providers such as ThoughtWorks may be brought in where needed to support scaled delivery, including software engineering, systems integration, and industrialization of AI solutions across enterprise environments. This support would complement the broader transformation, AI development, and localized platform capabilities delivered through McKinsey, QuantumBlack and HUMAIN.
“Capturing meaningful value from AI requires world-class technology. But it also demands rethinking how work gets done, building new capabilities and embedding AI into core processes. This collaboration aims to help organizations in Saudi Arabia make that shift,” said Tom Isherwood, a senior partner who co-leads McKinsey’s tech work in the Middle East Africa and Central Asia.
“AI’s next chapter is about scaling what works. Together with McKinsey, we are helping organizations move from experimentation to enterprise-wide transformation, embedding AI into core operations. By activating our full AI stack across data centers, compute, models, and applications, we are driving measurable results and unlocking sustained economic value across sectors,” said Tareq Amin, CEO, HUMAIN.
McKinsey’s State of AI in the GCC in 2025 research found that while AI adoption is widespread—with 84% of respondents saying their organizations had adopted AI, up from 62% in 2023—most organizations have not yet embedded them deeply enough into their workflows and processes to realize material enterprise-level benefits. Addressing this is a critical business challenge and priority for organizations globally.
This collaboration, which is part of McKinsey’s open ecosystem of technology alliances, will help clients drive AI adoption, develop the skills and capabilities to truly scale usage, and maintain a focus on constant innovation that sets them up for long-term success. Upon launch some focus areas are expected to include:
- End-to-end AI transformations that deliver measurable business outcomes: from strategy and use-case design to build and scaled deployment across the enterprise
- Tailored, agentic AI solutions for business domain transformation: combining advanced models, data, and engineering to create bespoke applications that reshape core processes and unlock new sources of value
- Driving effectiveness and productivity through agentic workflows and platforms in support functions: enhancing decision-making, automating complex tasks, and improving operational efficiency across areas such as finance, HR, procurement, and customer operations
- Responsible and secure AI adoption: embedding robust data governance, security, and local data principles to ensure compliant, scalable, and trusted deployment aligned with regional market needs
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About HUMAIN
HUMAIN, a PIF company, is a global artificial intelligence company delivering full-stack AI capabilities across four core areas: next-generation data centers; hyper-performance infrastructure and cloud platforms; advanced AI models, including some of the world’s most advanced Arabic large language models developed in the Arab world; and transformative AI solutions that combine deep sector insight with real-world execution.
HUMAIN’s end-to-end model serves both public and private sector organizations, unlocking value across industries, driving digital transformation, and strengthening capabilities through human–AI collaboration. With a growing portfolio of sector-specific AI products and a core mission focused on intellectual property development and global talent leadership, HUMAIN is engineered for international competitiveness and technological excellence.