On May 14, 2026, <cite index="3-1">PwC and Anthropic announced a major expansion of their strategic alliance to leverage the power of Claude in how PwC builds technology, executes deals, and reinvents enterprise functions for clients across every industry it serves.</cite> The announcement positions PwC—<cite index="6-5">a network of more than 364,000 people in 136 countries and 137 territories</cite>—as one of the largest professional services deployments of Anthropic's Claude family of LLMs (Large Language Models) disclosed to date.
Scope of the expansion
<cite index="2-3,2-4">PwC will roll out Claude Code and Cowork starting with U.S. teams and expanding toward a global workforce of hundreds of thousands of professionals. The companies are establishing a joint Center of Excellence and a program to train and certify 30,000 PwC professionals on Claude.</cite> Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding environment, while Cowork is its agentic work surface for non-engineering knowledge tasks.
<cite index="1-16,1-17,1-18,1-19,1-20,1-21,1-22">The expansion sharpens focus on three areas of highest leverage: Agentic technology build—engineering teams using Claude Code to ship production software for major companies in weeks, not quarters, with a growing portfolio of agentic builds across financial services, pharma and life sciences, healthcare, and consumer markets; AI-native deal-making—reinventing how PwC executes deals end-to-end across diligence, value creation, and integration, with agents working alongside deal teams; and Reinvention of the enterprise function—building scalable AI-native operating models for finance, supply chain, HR, and the engineering function itself.</cite>
Office of the CFO
<cite index="2-6">PwC is launching a new finance business group (Office of the CFO) built on Claude as the first standalone business unit anchored in Anthropic's technology.</cite> <cite index="9-12">The Claude-native finance business group combines PwC's finance expertise with Anthropic's tools including Claude in the productivity suite, Cowork and Claude Code.</cite> <cite index="3-14">PwC began as "Customer Zero," testing Claude on journal entries, variance analysis, RFPs, and annual planning through Claude Code while also supporting Anthropic's own CFO function.</cite>
Production use cases and metrics
Anthropic and PwC pointed to deployments already in live production. <cite index="2-24,2-25,2-26,2-27">Insurance underwriting cycles were compressed from ten weeks to ten days; a mainframe modernization effort involving a COBOL codebase four times larger than scoped is tracking on time and under budget; a stalled HR transformation program produced a working prototype in one week and a full application in under two months, now running thousands of daily transactions; and cybersecurity incident response has accelerated from hours to minutes with agentic vulnerability operations.</cite> <cite index="1-28">Across these deployments, clients are reporting delivery improvements of up to 70%.</cite>
Strategic context
<cite index="2-13">Anthropic characterized the collaboration as the deepest commitment within its Claude Partner Network, a $100 million investment made this year to back services firms helping enterprises deploy AI rather than pilot it.</cite> The announcement follows a February 2026 collaboration in which <cite index="6-9,6-10">PwC US and Anthropic agreed to accelerate the deployment of enterprise AI plugins across highly regulated and mission-critical industries, beginning with AI-Native Finance and Healthcare & Life Sciences, aligned with Anthropic's launch of Cowork and plugin updates for enterprises.</cite>
Notably, <cite index="9-13">earlier in May 2026 PwC also expanded its collaboration with OpenAI to develop an AI-native finance function at enterprise scale using agentic AI overseen by humans</cite>, indicating PwC is pursuing a multi-vendor strategy across the leading frontier model providers. Neither PwC nor Anthropic disclosed a contract value for the expanded alliance.