PwC Expands Anthropic Alliance, Deploying Claude Across Hundreds of Thousands of Professionals

Overview

Anthropic and PwC announced an expanded strategic alliance on May 14, 2026, deploying Claude Code and Claude Cowork across PwC's global workforce of hundreds of thousands of professionals, starting with U.S. teams. The partnership includes a joint Center of Excellence and a program to certify 30,000 PwC staff on Claude.

Deployment Structure

The alliance targets three high-leverage areas:

Agentic technology build: Developing AI-native technology solutions for clients

AI-native deal-making: Integrating Claude into M&A and transaction due diligence workflows

Enterprise function reinvention: A dedicated Office of the CFO business group anchored in Claude

Measured Results

Claude is already running in production across PwC client engagements:

Insurance underwriting: Cycle time compressed from 10 weeks to 10 days, opening previously uneconomical lines of business

Mainframe modernization and HR transformation: Delivery times cut by up to 70%

Cybersecurity and professional sports operations: Active Claude deployments in production

Why It Matters

Big Four consulting firms serve as technology multipliers — their workflows touch virtually every Fortune 500 company. A firm-wide Claude deployment at this scale, backed by mandatory certification programs, sets an industry expectation that AI fluency is now a baseline professional competency in enterprise services. This is the largest known deployment of a single frontier AI model within a professional services firm to date.

Source: Anthropic official announcement