PwC Trains 30,000 Professionals on Anthropic’s Claude Code

PwC is training 30,000 professionals on Anthropic’s Claude, a move designed to address an estimated $2 trillion in inefficiencies stemming from outdated systems and processes. The professional services firm is rolling out Claude Code and Cowork, establishing a joint Center of Excellence with Anthropic, and launching a new finance business group, the Office of the CFO, built on Anthropic’s technology. This expansion of their strategic alliance focuses on agentic technology, AI-native deal-making, and reinventing core enterprise functions, with early implementations already yielding significant results. “Insurance underwriting that took ten weeks now takes ten days,” said Dario Amodei, Cofounder and CEO of Anthropic. Claude is cutting delivery times by up to 70% across areas including professional sports operations and cybersecurity.

PwC and Anthropic Expand Alliance for AI-Native Deal-Making

Enterprises are currently shouldering over $2 trillion in inefficiencies from legacy systems not equipped for artificial intelligence, a burden that PwC and Anthropic are addressing through an expanded strategic alliance. The collaboration focuses on fundamentally restructuring how PwC delivers services and helps clients rebuild around AI-native operations, spanning technology development, deal execution, and enterprise function reinvention. This includes a joint Center of Excellence and a program to train and certify 30,000 PwC professionals on Anthropic’s Claude platform, demonstrating a significant investment in AI fluency across the firm’s global workforce. A striking example of Claude’s impact is in insurance underwriting, where processes previously requiring ten weeks are now completed in ten days.

Claude is running in production across professional sports operations, insurance underwriting, mainframe modernization, HR transformation, and cybersecurity, cutting delivery times by up to 70%. Paul Griggs, US Senior Partner and CEO, PwC, explained that the conversation around AI has shifted from possibility to execution. Clients are looking for ways to apply AI that are secure, responsible, and capable of delivering measurable outcomes in complex business environments. Advocate Health, a large health system, is building toward full-scale deployment of these AI-powered solutions across its 167,000-person workforce, believing that AI, when applied purposefully, can significantly improve patient care and access. Engineering teams are already leveraging Claude Code to ship production software in weeks, rather than the traditional timeframe of quarters, with deployments underway across financial services, pharma and life sciences, healthcare, and consumer markets.

Claude Code Accelerates Production Software and Modernization

The demand for rapid software delivery and modernization is reshaping enterprise strategies, with organizations increasingly focused on overcoming the limitations of legacy systems. A significant impediment to progress is the estimated $2 trillion in inefficiencies created by pre-AI infrastructure and processes; Anthropic and PwC are collaborating to address this challenge directly. This partnership focuses on deploying artificial intelligence at scale, evidenced by the rollout of Claude Code and Cowork to PwC’s U. S. teams, with plans for global expansion across a workforce numbering in the hundreds of thousands. The collaboration extends beyond software development to encompass AI-native deal-making, fundamentally altering how PwC executes transactions from diligence to integration.

For private equity firms and corporate buyers, this compressed timeline from initial concept to realized value is reshaping investment strategies. Dario Amodei, Cofounder and CEO, Anthropic, said that PwC has been leading AI’s expansion into sectors where accuracy and reliability are essential, financial services, healthcare, life sciences, cybersecurity, and the results are clear. This represents the first standalone business unit within PwC anchored by a single AI platform, signaling a commitment to AI-driven transformation. The firm’s approach extends beyond piloting projects; they are establishing scalable AI-native operating models for critical functions like finance, supply chain, and human resources.

Office of the CFO Launches with Claude-Based Finance Solutions

PwC is fundamentally reshaping its financial services offerings with the launch of the Office of the CFO, a new business group constructed around Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence platform. This represents a significant departure from integrating AI tools into existing workflows; instead, PwC is building an entire business unit anchored in Claude’s capabilities, signaling a commitment to AI-driven financial solutions. The expansion of the strategic alliance between PwC and Anthropic focuses on three key areas: agentic technology build, AI-native deal-making, and the complete reinvention of enterprise functions. Engineering teams are already experiencing benefits, utilizing Claude Code to accelerate software development cycles from quarters to weeks, including a growing portfolio of agentic builds across financial services, pharma and life sciences, healthcare, and consumer markets. Security work that took hours now takes minutes.

The Office of the CFO will initially concentrate on regulated industries, banking, insurance, and healthcare, where stringent accuracy and auditability are essential. Engagements will range from targeted assistance with specific financial tasks to comprehensive overhauls of entire finance organizations. PwC also implemented Claude for internal processes like journal entries and annual planning, and assisted Anthropic with scaling its own financial operations, demonstrating confidence in the technology before offering it to clients.

Impact of Claude: 70% Delivery Time Improvements Across Industries

Across multiple sectors, implementation of Anthropic’s Claude is demonstrably accelerating project completion, with early adopters reporting substantial gains in operational efficiency. Beyond theoretical potential, the technology is now delivering measurable results; enterprises grappling with systems and processes estimated to create a drag of more than $2 trillion are actively leveraging Claude to rebuild core processes. This isn’t merely about incremental improvements, but a fundamental shift in delivery timelines, with delivery times improved by up to 70%. This compression of timelines unlocks previously uneconomical lines of business, demonstrating Claude’s ability to fundamentally alter financial viability. These gains are underpinned by Claude Code’s performance in enterprise coding, a focus of ongoing investment by PwC’s modernization practice. The firm is also actively deploying Claude internally, utilizing it for tasks ranging from journal entries to annual planning, and extending this expertise to clients. PwC is training 30,000 professionals on Claude, with plans for global expansion, to meet accelerating client demand and engineer scalable, governable AI operating models.