Anthropic announced the Services Track and Claude Partner Hub, a structured program to help enterprises identify and work with qualified Claude implementation partners (Anthropic News). The initiative builds on the Claude Partner Network, which launched in March backed by a $100 million investment in partner training, technical support, and shared marketing (Anthropic News). More than 40,000 firms have applied to join the program, and more than 10,000 consultants have earned a Claude certification (Anthropic News).
The Services Track features three tiers—Select, Preferred, and Global Premier—measured against identical requirements regardless of firm size: number of active certified individuals, customers deployed in production, and public customer stories (Anthropic News). The Claude Partner Hub is a public directory where partners see their standing refreshed daily and customers find firms qualified for their scope, with integration into Claude itself via a new MCP connector (Anthropic News). Major professional-services firms are already building substantial Claude practices—Accenture is training 30,000 professionals, Cognizant has rolled Claude out to roughly 350,000 associates, Deloitte is making it available to 470,000 people, and KPMG is integrating it across a workforce of more than 276,000 (Anthropic News).
For commerce practitioners, this transparency structure reduces selection friction and risk when scaling AI into production. The tiered model rewards actual implementation work—production deployments and certified practitioners—rather than sales volume alone, creating incentives aligned with successful enterprise adoption.