Anthropic launched the Claude Partner Network on March 12, 2026, with a $100 million commitment for the year and Accenture already signed up to train 30,000 professionals on Claude. The program targets organizations that put AI into enterprise production — systems integrators, consulting firms, and regional resellers — rather than end customers directly. Steve Corfield, Anthropic's Head of Global Business Development and Partnerships, described the commitment as infrastructure built so that any firm, at any scale, can build a Claude practice. Membership is free.
The network launches with several concrete pieces: a Partner Portal housing Anthropic Academy training materials and sales playbooks from Anthropic's own go-to-market team; a Services Partner Directory for enterprise buyers seeking certified implementation partners; and the first Claude technical certification — Claude Certified Architect, Foundations — available immediately for solution architects building production applications. Additional certifications for sellers, architects, and developers are planned for later in 2026. Anthropic is also scaling its partner-facing team fivefold, adding dedicated Applied AI engineers, technical architects, and localized support in international markets. The launch includes a Code Modernization starter kit targeting the high-demand workload of migrating legacy codebases using <a href="/news/2026-03-14-claude-code-4pct-github-commits-anthropic-arr">Claude's agentic coding capabilities</a>.
Major launch partners include Accenture, Deloitte, Cognizant, and Infosys — the same quartet of global systems integrators that anchor the partner ecosystems of Microsoft and Google Cloud. Beyond Accenture's 30,000-professional training commitment, Cognizant has opened Claude access across its roughly 350,000-person global workforce, while Infosys highlighted teams applying Claude Code in real-world delivery through a dedicated Anthropic Center of Excellence.
Anthropic is using the program to replicate the partner ecosystem playbooks that made Microsoft's Cloud Partner Program and Google Cloud Partner Advantage dominant forces in enterprise technology adoption. One deployment argument Anthropic is making to global SIs: Claude runs on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure simultaneously. Anthropic claims this makes Claude the only frontier model available across all three leading clouds — a characterization that needs scoping, since OpenAI models are native to Azure and have Google Cloud Marketplace presence. What is more straightforward is that no competing frontier model is available through Anthropic's own managed API on all three simultaneously, which gives SI partners flexibility when enterprise clients have pre-existing cloud commitments. The $100 million figure, modest relative to what Microsoft and Google deploy through their own partner channels, works mainly as a credibility signal — evidence that Anthropic has the organizational staying power to justify a global SI building a certified Claude practice around it.