🧠 Food for thought

Implications, context, and why it matters.

Anthropic’s consulting partnerships extend beyond KPMG

• KPMG’s alliance sits within a wider move by professional services firms to bring Anthropic’s AI into daily work across their organizations 1.
• Deloitte has rolled out Claude to more than 470,000 employees 2. Accenture is training about 30,000 professionals in a dedicated business group 3.
• These firms are doing more than deploying a tool. They are building or connecting delivery platforms around Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant, for agentic workflows, where AI systems handle multistep tasks with limited human input and can cut work from weeks to minutes 4.

Agentic AI is moving consulting away from billable hours

• The partnerships could weaken a consulting model built on selling employee time 1.
• Agentic AI systems such as Claude can take on some junior and mid-level engineering and analyst work, which adds pressure to time-and-materials pricing 1.
• Anthropic’s share of the enterprise AI market rose from 24% to 40%, according to Menlo Ventures, a venture capital firm. The available source does not tie that gain directly to deals with service firms 1.
• Enterprise clients must decide which consulting or professional services partner can implement and govern AI at scale, with business results as the goal 5.