Anthropic is creating a standalone AI services firm with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman and Goldman Sachs to bring Claude into the core operations of midsize companies.
The company will be backed by General Atlantic, Leonard Green, Apollo Global Management, GIC and Sequoia Capital, and will work with both portfolio companies and independent businesses.
The new firm aims to provide Anthropic a delivery route for customers beneath the large-enterprise programs already handled by major consulting and systems integration partners.
Anthropic made bold claims that demand for Claude is outpacing other delivery models, while systems integrators in the Claude Partner Network, including Accenture, Deloitte and PwC, continue to lead deployments for the world’s largest enterprises.
Dual routes to market
The move also lands as rival AI platforms push deeper into services-led deployment. Accenture and Google Cloud recently launched the Gemini Enterprise Acceleration Program, which brings together Google Cloud engineering, access to Google DeepMind models, Accenture forward-deployed engineers and Faculty’s applied AI expertise to deploy specialized AI agents at scale.
Google Cloud separately announced a $750 million fund to support agentic AI development, adoption and education across its partner ecosystem.
That program is aimed at large organizations building on Gemini Enterprise, while Anthropic’s new firm is pitched at midsize companies that need frontier AI implementation but may not have the budget, staffing or operating model for a full-scale systems-integration program.
The structure gives Anthropic two routes to market: large-enterprise programs through its existing Claude Partner Network, and a more embedded services model for the middle market.
Bridging the internal resource gap
Anthropic named community banks, midsize manufacturers and regional health systems as companies that can benefit from AI but often lack the internal resources to build and run frontier deployments.
A typical engagement will start with a small team identifying where Claude can have the most impact, followed by engineers building Claude-powered systems around the customer’s own operations.
Anthropic Applied AI engineers will work alongside the new firm’s engineering team. That keeps the model provider closer to implementation than a software subscription alone, while giving customers access to technical staff who can adapt deployments as Claude changes.
Blackstone’s release noted that Claude’s capabilities change monthly or even weekly, which makes AI deployment different from traditional enterprise software rollout.
Measuring the pilot-to-production stall
McKinsey’s 2025 global AI survey found that 88% of respondents said their organizations regularly use AI in at least one business function, but nearly two-thirds had not begun scaling AI across the enterprise.
Larger companies were further ahead: nearly half of respondents from companies with more than $5 billion in revenue had reached the scaling phase, compared with 29% of those from companies with less than $100 million in revenue.
Agentic AI adds another pressure point. Gartner predicted that more than 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027 because of rising costs, unclear business value or inadequate risk controls. The same release said many projects remain early-stage experiments or proofs of concept, with deployment complexity stalling movement into production.
Leveraging investor ecosystems for distribution
The investor group gives the new firm a ready distribution base. Blackstone said the company will benefit from the consortium’s network of hundreds of companies to design, build and maintain enterprise AI deployments. The listed target sectors include health care, manufacturing, financial services, retail, real estate and infrastructure.
That route also separates the new firm from Anthropic’s existing upper-enterprise channel. Anthropic launched the Claude Partner Network in March with an initial $100 million commitment for partner training, technical support and joint market development. The new company will also become a member of that network, keeping it inside Anthropic’s broader partner system rather than outside it.