QuantumBlack Labs

Our center dedicated to driving innovation and experimentation in AI.

At QuantumBlack Labs, we bring together people and technology to push the boundaries of what’s possible with data and artificial intelligence. Our industry-shaping technology is the lifeblood of QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, because we aspire to stay at the cutting edge of technology while maintaining the reliability and scalability of our work. Our commitment to shareable, iterative technology reflects our belief in collaborative knowledge sharing, enabling us to contribute to and benefit from the global tech community.

Cross-industry technology

Our suite of horizontal technology solutions enables clients to scale their digital and AI capabilities. Leveraging robust diagnostics for actionable insights, scalable cloud infrastructure built with best practices, comprehensive data management tools, and modular AI and ML technologies, we empower organizations to innovate and transform efficiently. These solutions act as a foundation for our industry-specific toolkits and streamline development through reusable blueprints and industry-agnostic frameworks, ensuring resiliency, security, and cost-effectiveness while unlocking the full potential of digital and AI transformations.

AI/ML, Open Source

Vizro

Provides an extensive library of visualizations and intuitive dashboards to allow frontline business leaders to make decisions and take actions based on model outputs.

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AI/ML, Open Source

Kedro

Kedro is an open-source Python framework for building modular and maintainable data science pipelines. It standardizes code structure, supports pipeline management, and integrates with popular tools to simplify

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AI/ML

Turo

Turo is an application designed to streamline and automate the collection of key performance indicators (KPIs), providing business leaders with a holistic view of their AI portfolio. It tracks KPIs, adoption rates, compliance, and cost management, enabling informed, data-driven decision-making across the organization.

AI/ML

Brix

Brix is a platform that accelerates AI solution development by offering reusable components for tasks like data ingestion, model training, and deployment. It promotes collaboration and consistency, enabling faster scaling.

Industry-specific solutions

Our suite of industry-specific toolkits, developed by QuantumBlack Labs, offers over 20 AI products and 140+ use cases accelerators, tailored to sectors like Life Sciences, Retail, Mining, and Financial Services. These products leverage advanced AI, machine learning, and domain expertise to address complex business challenges, improve operational efficiency, and drive growth. They can be deployed in various ways, such as client-managed, managed services, or fully managed as a service, ensuring flexibility and scalability to meet diverse needs.

Global Energy and Materials

Optimus AI

OptimusAI is a McKinsey digital tool that uses advanced analytics to optimize the efficiency and profitability of industrial processing plants, particularly in metals, mining, and chemicals, by enabling real-time, data-driven decision-making.

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Life Sciences

LifeSciences.AI

LifeSciences.AI offers a patent-awarded AI toolkit designed to support pharmaceutical, biotech, and medtech clients throughout their entire value chain from Drug Discovery to Go-to-Market. Our toolkit contains gen AI apps and end-to-end machine learning pipelines servicing.

Managed Services

Our Managed Services team ensures organisations derive sustained value from their AI solutions by providing ongoing support, maintenance, and optimization post-deployment. Our global live operations team partners with solution teams and organisations to monitor, improve, and transition AI solutions to independence or provide continued partnership as needed. Leveraging codified monitoring tools—designed to streamline support operations and enhance the production experience—our services help organisations navigate the complexities of AI implementation and maximize the impact of our industryspecific use case accelerators.

Research & Development

Our Research & Development team is dedicated to curating and rapidly incubating an innovation pipeline that drives the next wave of technology and AI-enabled solutions. We source candidate projects from our extensive work across enterprise organisations, industry trends and McKinsey’s dedicated Tech Council. A rigorous, battle-tested methodology validates which ideas should graduate into mature assets, while also determining whether to integrate these assets into existing solutions or create net-new product teams.