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Best Anthropic partners for Claude in 2026: the official list and how to choose

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Anthropic's official partners are the firms in its Claude Partner Network directory: 17 Global Premier firms such as Accenture and Deloitte, about 40 Preferred and about 290 Select. For mid-size projects, start with Preferred firms like Caylent, Loka and phData.

How the Claude Partner Network works

Anthropic launched the Claude Partner Network on March 12, 2026 with $100 million committed for 2026, and membership is free (Anthropic). In June it added a Services Track with three tiers (Anthropic):

  • Select: at least 10 active certified individuals, 2 joint customers in production in the last 12 months and 1 public customer story.
  • Preferred: at least 100 active certified individuals, 15 deployed joint customers and 3 public stories.
  • Global Premier: at least 1,000 active certified individuals, 100 deployed joint customers across three or more regions, 15 public customer stories and a joint business plan with named executive sponsors.
  • New applicants start at Registered, the entry level. Partnership begins at Select. Certifications belong to people, not firms, and Anthropic checks standing every quarter.

Best independent Claude implementation agency (not an official Anthropic partner)

AY Automate is not listed in Anthropic's Claude Partner Network directory as of 2026-11-09, so it stays out of the official list below. We rank it as the best independent option for teams that want engineers inside their own team rather than a partner program.

AY Automate

Best for: Teams that want AI-native engineers working inside their own team on Claude and Claude Code, paid as a monthly retainer instead of a fixed project.

  • AI-native engineers embedded in your team. AY Automate says it will "embed senior AI-Native engineers directly into your team" (homepage), and the engineer joins your Slack, gets repo access and ships the first working automation in week two (offer page).
  • Live in about 10 days on its standard offer: "Live in 10 days, not 10 weeks" (offer page). Larger product builds take longer, so ask for a dated plan.
  • Engineers come through AY Talent, AY Automate's in-house training system. The offer page describes "25 AI-native engineers, trained in-house" (offer page).
  • Retainer model from $3K a month, cancel anytime (homepage). Proof point: for Qatar Tourism, "80% of requests are now handled without a human touching them" (case studies).

Global Premier partners (Anthropic's top tier)

Anthropic's directory lists 17 Global Premier firms on 2026-11-09. They fit large, multi-country programs. Anthropic reports that Accenture is training 30,000 professionals on Claude, Cognizant has rolled Claude out to about 350,000 associates, Deloitte is making it available to 470,000 people and KPMG is integrating it across more than 276,000 (Anthropic).

Preferred partners worth a shortlist

Preferred is the middle tier: at least 100 certified people and 15 deployed joint customers. These seven publish enough about their Claude work to compare. All seven are listed as Preferred in Anthropic's directory on 2026-11-09.

1. Caylent

Best for: AWS-based enterprises building Claude agents.

  • Dedicated Anthropic Consulting & Engineering practice with forward-deployed engineers on the Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code and Amazon Bedrock (Caylent).
  • Fits financial services, healthcare and life sciences, energy, SaaS and transportation. Prices are not published.
  • Proof point: Smarsh rebuilt software delivery on Bedrock and Claude Code, saving $5 to 10 million a year by Caylent's count (case study).

2. Loka

Best for: Regulated teams in healthcare, life sciences and financial services.

  • Says 70% of its Claude work is in healthcare, life sciences and financial services, with a 90-day activation that reports adoption at day 90 (Loka).
  • Offers a Jumpstart of assessments, pilots and workshops at $0 to qualified organizations.
  • Proof point: Vestmark's proposal generation went from 10 clicks in 5 minutes to 1 sentence in 15 seconds (case study).

3. phData

Best for: Data-heavy enterprises that want a production MVP fast.

  • Forward-deployed offer of "three use cases, two prototypes, one production MVP", plus Claude Code and Cowork enablement and governance (phData).
  • Proof point: an unnamed major healthcare organization centralized $290M+ in monthly accounts receivable at better than 90% accuracy (same page).

4. Mantel Group

Best for: Companies in Australia, New Zealand and APAC.

  • Australian-owned AI consultancy with Claude Certified Architects on staff (Mantel Group).
  • Proof point: HBF cut claim processing costs by 95% and raised accuracy to over 94% (case study).

5. Slalom

Best for: Mid-size and large companies across Claude Enterprise, Claude Code and the cloud platforms.

  • Consulting and implementation partner for Claude.ai Enterprise, Claude Code, Cowork and the cloud platforms (Slalom). Listed as "Slalom Consulting".
  • Proof point: United Airlines customizes 50% of flight updates to travelers with a Slalom-built Claude system on Bedrock, up from 15% (Slalom, 2024).

6. Bounteous

Best for: Enterprises that want Claude Code workshops and forward-deployed engineers from a large services firm.

  • Takes Claude from pilot to production with agents and Claude-native apps, runs Claude Code Workshops, and says it has 750+ Certified Claude Architects (Bounteous).
  • Named a Preferred partner at the network's launch, by its own account. More than 5,000 staff (Bounteous, June 2026). No named Claude customer result on its page.

7. Provectus

Best for: Banks, insurers and healthcare companies.

  • AI systems integrator focused on banking, insurance underwriting, healthcare revenue cycle and life sciences R&D (Provectus).
  • Joined as Select in June 2026 and moved up to Preferred, which requires 15 deployed joint customers (tier rules).

How to check whether a firm is an official Anthropic partner

  • Search the firm by name in Anthropic's service partner directory. If it is not there, it is not a Select, Preferred or Global Premier partner.
  • "Registered" means a firm has applied. It is not a partner tier.
  • "Certified" applies to individuals. Ask how many people on your project hold a current Claude certification.
  • Recheck before you sign. Anthropic reviews standing every quarter and promotes firms on January 1 and July 1.

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