Anthropic has announced the Claude Partner Network, a program designed for partner organizations that help enterprises adopt Claude. The company is committing an initial $100 million to support partners through training courses, dedicated technical support, and joint market development. Partners who join starting today receive immediate access to a new technical certification and become eligible for investment.
Anthropic has been focused on ensuring that Claude serves the needs of businesses, partnering with a range of companies to do so. Claude is notably the only frontier AI model available across all three major cloud providers: AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft.
Anthropic also collaborates with large management consultancies, professional services firms, specialist AI firms, and similar agencies. These organizations help Anthropic's enterprise customers identify where Claude can provide the most value and assist them in getting started with the AI tools. Partners serve as trusted guides through the deployment requirements, compliance, and change management that large organizations need to navigate.
With this initiative, Anthropic is deepening its commitment to partners, aiming to make it even easier for these organizations to support enterprises in adopting Claude.
Steve Corfield, Head of Global Business Development and Partnerships at Anthropic, stated that Anthropic is the most committed AI company to the partner ecosystem, backing that commitment with $100 million. He highlighted the certification, co-investment, and dedicated team as infrastructure built so any firm at any scale can establish a Claude practice, and emphasized that partners are instrumental in moving enterprises from proof of concept to production.
The Claude Partner Network
The Claude Partner Network offers training, technical support, and joint market development for partners helping enterprises adopt Claude. Anthropic is committing an initial $100 million to the network for 2026, with expectations to increase investment over time.
A significant portion of the $100 million investment will go directly to partners as support for training and sales enablement, market development (including efforts to ensure successful customer deployments), and co-marketing for joint campaigns and events. Anthropic is also scaling its partner-facing team fivefold to provide dedicated Applied AI engineers for partners working on live customer deals, technical architects for scoping complex implementations, and localized go-to-market support in international markets.
Network members will have access to a Partner Portal featuring Anthropic Academy training materials, the sales playbooks used by Anthropic's own go-to-market team, and other co-marketing documentation. Qualified partners will also be listed in a Services Partner Directory, where enterprise buyers can find firms with Claude implementation experience.
Alongside the network, Anthropic is introducing its first Claude technical certification: Claude Certified Architect, Foundations, available immediately for partners. This is a technical exam for solution architects building production applications with Claude. Additional certifications for sellers, architects, and developers are planned for later in the year, with network members getting priority access as new certifications roll out.
Anthropic is also launching a Code Modernization starter kit that gives partners a straightforward starting point for migrating legacy codebases and remediating technical debt-one of the highest-demand enterprise workloads where Claude's agentic coding capabilities directly translate into client outcomes.
Any organization bringing Claude to market is eligible to join the Claude Partner Network. Membership is free, and applications are open now.
Partner Perspectives
Alex Holt, Vice Chair and Global Head of the Anthropic Business Group at Accenture, noted that Accenture is training 30,000 professionals on Claude to meet current demand, and that the Claude Partner Network provides the structure-through certification, co-selling support, and shared investment-to accelerate that effort.
Ranjit Bawa, Global Technology and Ecosystems & Alliances Leader at Deloitte, said the Claude Partner Network helps formalize and scale ongoing work including training, industry-focused solutions, and practical guidance for deploying AI.
Sandra Notardonato, Head of Global Partnership Development and Influencer Relations at Cognizant, shared that Cognizant has opened Claude access across its global workforce of roughly 350,000 associates and is embedding it into how the company helps clients modernize and transform. The network's co-investment and technical support enable faster movement from pilot initiatives to production.
Anand Swaminathan, Executive Vice President and Global Head of Communications, Media and Technology at Infosys, highlighted that Infosys is helping clients scale AI with confidence through robust governance, security, and trust by design, with a dedicated Anthropic Center of Excellence and teams applying Claude Code in real-world delivery.