OpenAI and Wolters Kluwer Strengthen Enterprise AI Alliance

OpenAI and Wolters Kluwer have recently announced their expanded enterprise artificial intelligence collaboration. The deal gives the Dutch information services group (EURONEXT: WKL) access to OpenAI’s latest APIs and platform capabilities for deployment across healthcare, tax, legal, and compliance workflows used by professionals in regulated industries. Financial terms of the expanded agreement were not disclosed.

The agreement follows a year in which foundation model providers and professional services firms have rushed to lock in strategic partnerships, with PwC, KPMG, Deloitte, and Baker Tilly all forging their own enterprise AI alliances in rapid succession.

Under the collaboration, Wolters Kluwer will deploy OpenAI technologies within FAB, its proprietary AI enablement platform announced earlier in 2026. FAB operates as a secure, model-agnostic environment that allows the company to integrate foundation models while retaining control of data pipelines, security architecture, and regulatory guardrails, according to the company.

Wolters Kluwer has framed the collaboration as central to its Expert AI strategy, which embeds artificial intelligence across products in a way that is grounded in curated domain content, validated by human experts, and governed by its published Responsible AI Principles.

“This collaboration accelerates our Expert AI vision, bringing trusted AI to the professional workflows of clinicians, lawyers, accountants, and other experts who rely on Wolters Kluwer in high-stakes environments.”

Alex Tyrrell, Senior Vice President and Head of Advanced Technology, Wolters Kluwer

The deal also reflects OpenAI’s intensifying push into regulated verticals, a strategy that has seen the San Francisco-based company forge alliances with several of the world’s largest professional services firms over the past twelve months.

“AI is becoming a critical operating layer for enterprise, and we are thrilled to be working with Wolters Kluwer. This agreement enables advanced AI capabilities to be applied in professional environments where accuracy, governance, and trust are paramount.”

Ashley Kramer, Vice President of Enterprise, OpenAI

OpenAI and Wolters Kluwer are already seeing traction in healthcare. UpToDate Expert AI, the generative AI-powered evolution of the company’s flagship clinical decision support platform, has been adopted at pace since launch. More than half of all US Enterprise Edition customers, representing approximately 2,000 hospitals, had signed up to use the Expert AI version as of April 30, according to the company. Momentum is building toward 70% adoption by mid-year.

The solution relies on a multi-layer, expert-in-the-loop framework designed to maintain the clinical accuracy for which UpToDate has become a benchmark across global health systems. Integration of OpenAI’s latest models delivered significant improvements in clinical relevance, cost efficiency, and response speed, the company said.

In tax and accounting, OpenAI and Wolters Kluwer have embedded agentic AI capabilities within CCH Axcess, the cloud-based professional tax platform used by accounting firms across the United States. AI-powered workflows now handle client data gathering, document classification, and preparation steps that previously required manual effort.

During compressed filing deadlines, these capabilities reduced manual tasks by 20 to 30%, according to the company. That freed professionals to redirect time toward higher-value advisory work, Wolters Kluwer said. The agentic systems execute multi-step processes with human oversight and full auditability, a requirement in environments where professional standards and client confidentiality carry legal weight.

Wolters Kluwer reported 2025 annual revenues of €6.1 billion, up 7% in constant currencies, with organic revenue growth of 6%. Cloud software revenues rose 15% organically. Recurring revenues accounted for 83% of total sales.

Adjusted operating profit reached €1.69 billion, up 9% in constant currencies, pushing the adjusted operating margin to 27.5 percent. The company serves customers in more than 180 countries and employs approximately 21,100 people worldwide.

CEO Stacey Caywood identified accelerating AI innovation, fostering strategic partnerships, and intensifying go-to-market efforts as near-term priorities in the company’s 2025 annual report, published in March 2026. The deal between OpenAI and Wolters Kluwer spans all three. The company has guided for another year of good organic growth and a further margin increase in 2026.

The partnership between OpenAI and Wolters Kluwer reflects a wave of similar alliances across professional services since late 2025. Foundation model providers are competing for the consulting firms, technology vendors, and domain specialists that control enterprise deployment budgets. The pace of deal-making has intensified in 2026, with multiple announcements landing within weeks of each other.

PwC announced its own expanded collaboration with OpenAI on May 5, 2026. That deal focused on building what the two companies called the first AI-native finance function at enterprise scale, deploying agentic AI agents across planning, forecasting, procurement, treasury, and the accounting close. PwC said it was already working on generative AI projects with 950 of its top 1,000 US consulting clients. Together with OpenAI, the firm is building a procurement agent inside OpenAI’s own finance organization and applying those learnings to additional agents across core finance workflows, according to a PwC statement.

OpenAI launched its Frontier Alliances program in February 2026, bringing McKinsey, BCG, Accenture, and Deloitte together with early model access and co-development resources. The company then established a majority-owned Deployment Company subsidiary to compete directly for enterprise implementation work.

KPMG expanded its strategic alliance with Google Cloud in April 2026, deploying Gemini Enterprise to power AI agents for financial close processes and regulatory compliance. The firm pledged $100 million to Google’s agentic AI program and separately partnered with Uniphore in January 2026 to build AI agents using industry-specific small language models.

Deloitte expanded its Google Cloud alliance through a dedicated agentic transformation practice and partnered with Hewlett Packard Enterprise on agentic AI for finance workflows. Google announced a $750 million partner fund at Cloud Next 2026, the largest single partner investment from any hyperscaler.

Baker Tilly announced an expanded collaboration with Fieldguide on May 27, 2026, deepening its use of the agentic AI platform across risk advisory services including SOC, PCI, HITRUST, ISO, FedRAMP, and SOX engagements. The firm said it had implemented the platform with a human-in-the-loop approach that ensures professional oversight across documentation, testing, and review processes. Fieldguide’s client roster includes KPMG, RSM, Grant Thornton, BDO, and Forvis Mazars, and the platform has raised more than $125 million in financing to date.

Anthropic has committed $100 million to its Claude Partner Network and launched a $200 million private equity venture to embed its models in portfolio companies. Microsoft continues to leverage Azure AI Foundry and its Copilot ecosystem across enterprise infrastructure.

OpenAI and Wolters Kluwer said the collaboration includes a pipeline of features equipped with domain-grounded generative and agentic AI designed to support professional decision-making and productivity. The company operates as both a technology provider and a domain authority with decades of curated, expert-validated content across healthcare, law, tax, and compliance, deploying the best available foundation models within its own governed platform.

Wolters Kluwer shares are listed on Euronext Amsterdam and are included in the AEX and Euro Stoxx 50 indices. The company is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands.