Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs have announced the creation of a new AI services company. The venture will partner with mid-sized businesses across various industries to integrate Claude into their most critical operations. Applied AI engineers from Anthropic will collaborate with the new firm's engineering team to pinpoint where Claude can deliver the greatest value, develop tailored solutions, and provide ongoing customer support.
In addition to the founding partners, the company is supported by a group of prominent alternative asset managers, including General Atlantic, Leonard Green, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital.
The Rationale Behind the New Company
Deploying Claude within an organization's core workflows requires hands-on engineering and a thorough understanding of each business's operations. Systems integrators in the Claude Partner Network currently lead that effort for the world's largest enterprises, and Anthropic continues to invest heavily in those partnerships as Claude's reach expands. This new firm extends that delivery capacity even further. Companies such as community banks, mid-sized manufacturers, and regional health systems stand to benefit significantly from AI but often lack the internal resources to build and maintain frontier-level deployments.
Krishna Rao, Anthropic's Chief Financial Officer, noted that enterprise demand for Claude is growing well beyond what any single delivery model can handle. He emphasized that Anthropic's partnerships with leading systems integrators remain central to how Claude reaches large enterprises, and that this new firm adds additional operating capability to the ecosystem along with capital from top alternative asset managers. He expressed pride in building it alongside Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, and the other partners involved.
How Engagements Will Work
A typical engagement begins with a small team working closely with the customer to identify where Claude can have the most meaningful impact. From there, the company's engineers-working alongside Anthropic's Applied AI staff-develop Claude-powered systems customized to each organization's operations.
As an example, consider a multi-site healthcare services group, such as a network of physician practices. Clinicians often spend hours each day on documentation, medical coding, prior authorizations, and compliance reviews. An engagement might start with the firm's engineering team sitting down with clinicians and IT staff to create tools that integrate into existing workflows. The clinicians understand where time is lost during a shift and what quality patient care truly demands. The engineers then build around that knowledge, enabling clinicians to dedicate more time to caring for patients.
Engagements like this will span mid-sized companies across a range of industries, each informed by the people closest to the work.
Expanding the Claude Partner Network
The new company will also join Anthropic's growing Claude Partner Network.
Anthropic's partnerships with firms like Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, and other consulting and systems integration companies in the Claude Partner Network are a key way Claude delivers value to the world's largest enterprises today. These firms lead the complex transformation programs that shape how global organizations operate, and they bring Claude expertise to their millions of practitioners across every major industry. Anthropic has been steadily expanding the Claude Partner Network since its launch and continues to invest in the programs, funding, and teams that support its partners.