Anthropic and PwC today announced an expansion of their strategic alliance, deepening how PwC uses Claude to build technology, execute deals, and reinvent enterprise functions for clients across every industry it serves. Most enterprises are still running on systems and processes built for a pre-AI world—a drag that is estimated to be more than $2 trillion. Together, Anthropic and PwC are helping companies replace that weight and rebuild around AI.
Key elements of the announcement:
- PwC will roll out Claude Code and Cowork starting with U.S. teams and expanding toward a global workforce of hundreds of thousands of professionals.
- The companies are establishing a joint Center of Excellence and a program to train and certify 30,000 PwC professionals on Claude.
- The collaboration focuses on three areas of highest leverage: agentic technology build, AI-native deal-making, and reinvention of the enterprise function.
- PwC is launching a new finance business group (Office of the CFO) built on Claude as the first standalone business unit anchored in Anthropic's technology.
- Claude is already running in production across professional sports operations, insurance underwriting, mainframe modernization, HR transformation, and cybersecurity—cutting delivery times by up to 70%.
"PwC has been leading AI's expansion into the parts of the economy where accuracy and reliability are non-negotiable—financial services, healthcare, life sciences, cybersecurity—and the results are clear. Insurance underwriting that took 10 weeks now takes 10 days. Security work that took hours now takes minutes. We're excited to put Claude in the hands of hundreds of thousands of people across PwC's workforce," said Dario Amodei, Co-founder and CEO, Anthropic.
"The conversation around AI has shifted from possibility to execution. Clients are looking for ways to apply AI that are secure, responsible, and capable of delivering measurable outcomes in complex business environments. Our collaboration with Anthropic brings together advanced AI capabilities and PwC's industry experience to help organizations move from exploration to enterprise-wide impact with greater confidence," said Paul Griggs, US Senior Partner and CEO, PwC.
Areas of focus
The biggest gains for enterprises will come from AI systems that complete tasks end-to-end, run continuously, and let the most experienced professionals operate at a scale not previously possible. PwC and Anthropic are building them in production today, across PwC's global network. The expansion centers on three areas:
- Agentic technology build. Engineering teams are using Claude Code to ship production software for major companies in weeks, not quarters. This includes a growing portfolio of agentic builds across financial services, pharma and life sciences, healthcare, and consumer markets.
- AI-native deal-making. PwC is reinventing how it executes deals end-to-end — diligence, value creation, integration — with agents working alongside deal teams. For private equity sponsors and corporate acquirers, this compresses the path from thesis to value capture and changes the economics of what's worth doing.
- Reinvention of the enterprise function. Where many are running pilots, PwC is running production—including building scalable AI-native operating models for finance, supply chain, HR, and the engineering function itself.
Office of the CFO
PwC is launching a new business group focused on transforming client finance organizations with Claude. The practice will pair PwC's finance expertise with Anthropic's full product set: Claude, Claude Cowork, and Claude Code. It's starting with regulated industries—banking, insurance, healthcare—where accuracy and auditability matter most. Engagements range from targeted help with specific finance tasks to top-to-bottom redesigns of the whole function.
PwC started as "Customer Zero," putting Claude to work inside its own firm before bringing it to clients. Teams used it for journal entries, variance analysis, and RFPs, and built on Claude Code to optimize annual planning. In parallel, PwC has been helping Anthropic's own CFO office scale operations, controls, and international payroll. Both firms put the technology to work inside their own walls before bringing it to clients.
Already running in production
Across the production deployments below, clients are reporting delivery improvements of up to 70%. These outcomes are anchored in Claude Code's enterprise coding leadership, which PwC's Claude-native modernization practice continues to invest in for its frontier performance and compliance readiness.
Live deployments include:
- Professional sports operations: PwC has leveraged Anthropic's portfolio of assets to reinvent digital fan engagement and an agentic-first sports management operation.
- Insurance underwriting: Underwriting cycles compressed from ten weeks to ten days, opening lines of business that were not previously economically viable.
- Mainframe modernization: A COBOL codebase four times larger than scoped, tracking on time and under budget.
- HR transformation: A stalled program turned around with a working prototype in one week, full application in under two months, now running thousands of daily transactions.
- Cybersecurity: Incident response accelerated from hours to minutes, with agentic vulnerability operations—code review, automated containment—closing exposure windows before adversaries can exploit them.
PwC and Anthropic are helping clients design the future of operating models across the industries where the stakes are highest:
- Healthcare: Agentic transformation across clinical operations, workforce productivity, and the administrative spine that connects systems and payers.
- Life sciences: Compressing clinical development cycles, regulatory submissions, and safety case processing while meeting FDA and EMA standards.
- Financial services and private equity: AI-native finance platforms, agentic deal execution, and portfolio-scale operating model deployment for sponsors moving from thesis to value.
- Consumer, industrial, and technology: Function reinvention and agentic build across the industries where speed-to-market and operating efficiency define competitive position.
Client story: Advocate Health
Advocate Health, one of the nation's largest health systems, is among the organizations now building toward full-scale deployment across its 167,000-person workforce.
"At Advocate Health, we believe this is one of the most consequential moments in the history of health care, and that AI applied with purpose and a genuine commitment to people can help us deliver on our promise of health, hope, and healing for all," said Andy Crowder, Chief Digital and AI Officer at Advocate Health. "Our collaboration with Anthropic and PwC isn't about deploying technology for its own sake—it's about building the foundation that allows our 167,000 teammates to do more for every patient, in every community we serve, including the rural communities that need us most."
With plans to expand to hundreds of thousands of users at PwC
Building agentic operating models at this scale requires people who can engineer, operate, and govern them. To meet accelerating client demand, PwC will be expanding its roll out Claude to its workforce of hundreds of thousands of professionals. This work is anchored by a joint Center of Excellence and a program that will train and certify 30,000 US professionals. The investment reaches leadership too: earlier this year at PwC's Advisory Leadership Exchange, more than 5,000 leaders saw the alliance up close, with hands-on training enabling a wave of early adopters to apply Claude Code to client workflows.
This collaboration represents the deepest commitment within our Claude Partner Network—the $100 million investment we made this year to back the services firms helping enterprises actually deploy AI, not just pilot it. PwC's depth in financial services, healthcare, life sciences, and cybersecurity is what makes it work at the scale these clients require.
Claude is already available in ChatPwC—the firm's internal AI assistant—and is in production on client engagements with three active AI incubation pods in Finance, Supply Chain, and Deal Making. Claude Cowork will help extend this reach into the broader workforce, running directly within tools such as spreadsheet, word processing, and presentation programs and connecting to enterprise data through Anthropic's Model Context Protocol.
Getting started
PwC clients can contact their account team to discuss deployment options. Enterprises can visit our Enterprise page to learn more about Claude. Claude is the only frontier model available on all three of the world's most prominent cloud services, including Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Azure.