This week, senior partners from McKinsey and QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, are joining global innovators, entrepreneurs, and industry disruptors at VivaTech 2025 to explore how cutting-edge AI is transforming industries.
McKinsey leaders will share their insights about harnessing the power of agentic AI to accelerate transformation, reimagine operations, and unlock new opportunities amidst unprecedented business challenges.
As organizations navigate a rapidly evolving landscape, VivaTech 2025 serves as a timely stage to highlight the critical role of AI in shaping the future of work. Together with our attendance at the conference, QuantumBlack and McKinsey Technology, our enterprise technology practice, are proud to announce agents at scale, a modular product suite powered by a transformative approach that aims to rewire organizations with agentic AI while achieving bottom-line impact.
“Two years into gen AI deployments, perceived adoption is soaring, but economic impact remains elusive. What are the reasons behind this paradox?,” says Alexander Sukharevsky, senior partner and managing partner, QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey. “We see many enterprise-wide deployments, but they deliver diffused benefits, while higher-impact, function-specific use cases remain in pilot purgatory, blocked by technical, organizational, and cultural barriers.”
Alexander adds: “We are proud to introduce agents at scale, which aims to solve these challenges by incorporating 100 years of McKinsey’s domain expertise into software products. It includes a depository of reimagined processes and ready-to-use agents to power these processes, as well as proprietary development tools for the creation of customized agents.”
In the current race to develop agentic AI solutions, clients may be concerned about the risk of using proprietary systems, but agents at scale enables agents from different technology stacks to collaborate. The product suite is designed to rapidly transform business processes by building, deploying, and managing agentic systems at scale. It includes the following:
- Modular architecture: Flexible modules that can be swiftly tailored to specific industries and workflows, and for existing IP.
- Integration capabilities: Seamless compatibility with previously-established technologies, tools, and data ecosystems.
- Orchestration tools: Advanced features for coordinating multiple agents, ensuring they work together efficiently.
- Repository of agents and processed: Catalogue of reimagined processes across various industries, ready-to-deploy agents that power them and ability to create customized agents.
- Reusability and standards: A framework that promotes the reuse of components and adherence to industry standards, enabling faster deployment and scaling.
“Agents at scale is designed to address the critical challenges to businesses adopting gen AI projects,” says Klemens Hjartar, global leader of McKinsey Technology. “It is unique in that it’s more than just a technology solution—it represents a new way of thinking about operating model transformation”.
QuantumBlack, McKinsey’s AI arm, has been helping businesses create value from AI since 2009, expanding on McKinsey’s technology work over the past 30 years. Combining an industry-leading tech stack with the strength of McKinsey’s 7,000 technologists, designers, and product managers, QuantumBlack delivers the organizational rewiring that businesses need to build, adopt, and scale AI capabilities.
To learn more about agents at scale or to connect with the team at VivaTech, reach out here.