Anthropic introduced a Services Track and Partner Hub for the Claude Partner Network on June 3, 2026. The company says more than 40,000 firms have applied to join the network since it launched in March, and more than 10,000 consultants have earned a Claude certification.
The news is not just a partner directory. Anthropic is putting measurable requirements around the firms that help enterprises deploy Claude: active certified people, customers running in production, and public customer stories. That turns services partners into a more legible distribution channel for Claude.
The tiers turn consulting into proof
Anthropic’s Services Track has three tiers. Select requires at least 10 active certified individuals, at least two joint customers deployed in production in the trailing 12 months, and at least one public customer story. Preferred raises that to 100 active certified individuals, 15 deployed joint customers, and three public stories. Global Premier requires 1,000 active certified individuals, 100 deployed joint customers across at least three regions, 15 public customer stories, and a joint business plan with named executive sponsors.
That structure matters because enterprise AI services can otherwise be vague. A firm can say it has an AI practice, a Claude practice, an agent practice, or a transformation practice. Anthropic is asking for more concrete evidence: trained people, live deployments, and customers willing to be named.
The big consultancies are already part of the pitch
Anthropic’s post names the major services firms already building around Claude. It says Accenture is training 30,000 professionals on the model, Cognizant has rolled Claude out to roughly 350,000 associates, Deloitte is making it available to 470,000 people across its global network, and KPMG is integrating Claude across a workforce of more than 276,000. It also says Infosys is building Claude-powered agents for specific industries, and PwC is rolling out Claude Code and Cowork starting with U.S. teams before expanding globally.
Those are Anthropic-reported figures, not proof that every deployment is deep or successful. But they show the channel strategy. Claude is not only being sold through API docs and model benchmarks. It is being pushed through the firms that already sit between large enterprises and complicated systems work.
The Partner Hub makes standing visible
Anthropic says the Claude Partner Hub lets partners see their standing against published requirements, refreshed daily. Customers can use the public directory to see a firm’s tier, certified team, customer deployments, and public references. Anthropic also says it verifies standing every quarter.
There is a product angle too. Partners can connect the Partner Hub to Claude through an MCP connector. Anthropic’s examples include asking Claude where a firm stands against the next tier, checking the status of a registered deal, or asking how many consultants hold an active certification, then acting on the answer inside Claude.
That is a small detail, but it fits the wider strategy. Anthropic is not only promoting Claude as the thing being deployed for customers. It is also using Claude to operate the partner program itself.
What to watch next
The first test is whether customers use the tiers to choose partners. If the public directory becomes a procurement shortcut, Anthropic has created a distribution surface with measurable pressure on services firms.
The second test is whether the thresholds stay meaningful. Certifications can become vanity metrics if they do not track actual delivery quality. Customer deployments and public references are harder to fake, but they still need enough context to distinguish a narrow pilot from a business-critical production system.
For Anthropic, the reason to formalize this now is clear. Claude Code, Claude Enterprise, and agentic workflows are not self-installing products. They need integration, evaluation, governance, and work redesign. A ranked partner network gives Anthropic a way to scale that work without making every enterprise deployment a bespoke Anthropic-led project.
For more context, see our Anthropic company profile and the AI model leaderboard.
