Anthropic and PwC have announced a major expansion of their strategic partnership, deepening the use of Claude across PwC’s workforce and client operations as both companies push further into enterprise AI deployment.
The expanded alliance includes plans to roll out Claude Code and Claude Cowork across PwC, beginning with U.S. teams and eventually extending to hundreds of thousands of employees globally. The companies are also launching a joint Center of Excellence and a certification initiative aimed at training 30,000 PwC professionals on Anthropic’s AI systems.
The collaboration focuses on three primary areas: agentic software development, AI-assisted deal-making, and enterprise function transformation. PwC said its teams are already using Claude Code to accelerate software delivery timelines across sectors including financial services, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and consumer industries.
As part of the expansion, PwC is launching a dedicated Office of the CFO business unit built around Anthropic’s technology stack. The new practice will focus on helping finance organizations automate and redesign operations using Claude, Claude Cowork, and Claude Code, particularly in regulated industries where auditability and compliance are critical.
The companies say Claude is already operating in production environments across several enterprise use cases. Reported deployments include insurance underwriting workflows compressed from ten weeks to ten days, cybersecurity incident response reduced from hours to minutes, and large-scale mainframe modernization projects involving complex COBOL systems.
PwC also said it used Claude internally before expanding deployments to clients. The firm integrated the models into finance operations, annual planning workflows, and proposal generation processes. Anthropic, meanwhile, worked with PwC to scale internal financial operations and payroll systems.
The partnership reflects growing demand for AI systems capable of executing long-running enterprise workflows rather than functioning solely as chatbot interfaces. Anthropic said clients are increasingly seeking agentic systems that can automate business processes end-to-end while operating continuously inside enterprise infrastructure.
Anthropic said the PwC alliance represents its deepest commitment within the Claude Partner Network, a $100 million initiative launched earlier this year to support consulting firms building enterprise AI deployment practices. The company has increasingly emphasized production-grade enterprise infrastructure, compliance readiness, and workflow automation as differentiators against rivals including OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft.
The announcement follows Anthropic’s broader push into agentic enterprise software, including the rollout of Claude Code for AI-assisted development workflows and Claude Cowork for integrating AI agents directly into productivity tools and enterprise data systems through Model Context Protocol integration. Anthropic has also been expanding those enterprise capabilities to smaller organizations with the recent launch of Claude for Small Business, a package of AI workflows and software integrations for finance, operations, marketing, and customer service teams that connects with platforms including QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, and Microsoft 365.
