by Duncan Riley
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Anthropic PBC today announced a major expansion of their alliance, as the consulting giant is set to roll out Claude Code and Claude Cowork across its workforce and train 30,000 U.S. professionals on the artificial intelligence company’s models.
The expanded deal also establishes a joint Center of Excellence and a new Claude-native finance business group inside PwC’s Office of the CFO practice. The rollout begins with U.S. teams before extending toward PwC’s global workforce of more than 364,000 people across 136 countries.
The two firms describe the work as a response to what they estimated at more than $2 trillion in technical debt, or future costs of using quick fixes in software development, that’s sitting inside enterprise operations. The expansion focuses on three areas: agentic technology builds for clients, AI-native dealmaking covering diligence through integration and the reinvention of finance, supply chain and human resources functions.
PwC said several deployments are already running in production. Insurance underwriting cycles have been compressed from 10 weeks to 10 days at one unnamed client, while a mainframe modernization project handling a COBOL codebase four times larger than scoped is tracking on time and under budget. A stalled human resources transformation was restarted with a working prototype in one week and a full application live in under two months, now handling thousands of daily transactions.
