Anthropic expands Partner Program with tiered Services Track as enterprise AI adoption accelerates

Anthropic Updates Partner Program As Enterprise AI Adoption Grows | PYMNTS.com

Since launching in March, the artificial intelligence (AI) startup said Wednesday (June 3), more than 40,000 firms have applied for the program and more than 10,000 consultants have earned a Claude certification, which shows they've been trained to build and deploy the company's Claude model in production. To expand on this effort, Anthropic has introduced two ways to make its ecosystem easier for customers to explore, including the tiered "Services Track," designed to reflect what a company has built and delivered using Claude. "The best partners have firsthand experience with Claude. They use the newest models for their own work before they put it in front of a client," the company said. "This way, when they tell a customer what it takes, they're speaking from experience. The Services Track is built to give customers confidence in a firm's ability to help them bring Claude into their businesses." Anthropic is also launching the "Claude Partner Hub," which lets partners view their standing against published requirements, and allows customers seeking Claude expertise to find the companies most qualified to help. The move means that Anthropic's partners get "a great deal of credibility" when they try to sell Claude to businesses, Karl Kadon, Anthropic's global head of partner experience, told the Wall Street Journal. "It would be our responsibility as a public company to show up to shareholders, and to the world, with an ecosystem that we can stand behind that is high-integrity," Kadon said. "It's not necessarily something where just anybody can call themselves a partner with Anthropic." The news comes two days after Anthropic confidentially filed for an initial public offering (IPO), a stock market listing that could value the company at $1 trillion. The company recently became the world's most valuable AI startup after taking in $65 billion in a Series H round, giving Anthropic a post-money valuation of $965 billion. In other AI news, PYMNTS wrote earlier this week about a consensus forming around the gap between ambition and readiness as companies scramble to deploy agentic artificial intelligence. "The technology is advancing. The foundations underneath it are not keeping pace," that report said. "Data is fragmented, infrastructure is built for a different paradigm, and the organizational structures designed for human workers are not designed for agents. Each problem compounds the others."

Anthropic launches Services Track for Claude partner network By Investing.com

Investing.com - Anthropic announced the launch of the Services Track and Partner Hub for its Claude Partner Network on Wednesday, introducing a tiered structure for consulting firms that deploy its AI model for enterprise clients. The Services Track establishes three tiers based on certified practitioners, production deployments, and customer endorsements. The Select tier requires at least 10 certified individuals, two joint customers in production, and one public customer story. The Preferred tier requires 100 certified individuals, 15 deployed customers, and three public stories. The Global Premier tier requires 1,000 certified individuals, 100 deployed customers across three regions, and 15 public customer stories. Anthropic launched the Claude Partner Network in March with a $100 million investment in partner training, technical support, and shared marketing. More than 40,000 firms have applied to join and more than 10,000 consultants have earned Claude certification since the program began. Major professional services firms have integrated Claude into their operations. Accenture is training 30,000 professionals on the model, Cognizant has rolled it out to roughly 350,000 associates, Deloitte is making it available to 470,000 people, KPMG is integrating it across more than 276,000 workers, Infosys is building Claude-powered agents for specific industries, and PwC is rolling out Claude Code and Cowork starting with its US teams. The Claude Partner Hub provides partners with a dashboard showing their standing against published requirements, refreshed daily. Tier promotions are processed twice a year on January 1 and July 1, with an additional review on October 1, 2026. Partners can connect the Hub to Claude through a new MCP connector to query information about their partnership status. This article was generated with the support of AI and reviewed by an editor. For more information see our T&C.