Shares in consultancy giant Accenture (ACN) were higher today after it sealed a three-year deal with Anthropic to helicopter staff into businesses to show them how to use AI.
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Reinvention Deployed Engineers
According to the Wall Street Journal the companies have created a new business group called the Accenture Anthropic Business Group, where around 30,000 of Accenture’s employees will be trained on the AI startup’s Claude model.
The group, which is formally part of Accenture will launch an offering that aims to help CIOs measure value and adopt AI across their engineering groups. The business group will include the employees trained on Claude, as well as thousands of employees Accenture calls “reinvention deployed engineers.”
They will be embedded in businesses to teach them to how to make best use of AI.
“Our new partnership means that tens of thousands of Accenture developers will be using Claude Code, making this our largest ever deployment,” said Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei.
The partnership enables Anthropic and Accenture to “be the bridge from AI to actually creating value,” said Manish Sharma, Accenture’s chief strategy and services officer. “It is not about ‘We want to develop agents.’ We are in the business of delivering outcomes.”
Big Deal for AI
This is an important move by Accenture as it looks to boost productivity, skills and streamline operations as the AI revolution gathers pace. It will also hope for a lift to revenues – see below:
The move mirrors Accenture’s deal with OpenAI announced last week, where it would train hundreds of thousands of its IT workers on ChatGPT Enterprise and work to integrate the technology into workflows.
Consulting firms are racing to strengthen AI capabilities as clients expand the technology’s use beyond chatbots to overhaul core operations and drive demand for packaged services like coding assistants, automated workflows, and multi-step task systems.
Accenture and Anthropic will also launch new joint offerings for regulated sectors such as financial services, health and life sciences, and the public sector – areas where AI adoption has lagged due to compliance and data-handling rules.
Companies are also struggling to generate positive returns from their AI investments beyond chatbots.
New data from Menlo Ventures—which has invested in Anthropic—estimates that the AI company has a 40% market share for overarching corporate AI use. That’s compared with OpenAI’s 27%, according to Menlo.
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