Anthropic Just Started Its Own Consulting Firm. The Bottleneck Was Never the Model.
Anthropic just announced a new enterprise services company, backed by Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, and a long list of other private equity heavyweights including General Atlantic, Leonard Green, Apollo, GIC, and Sequoia. The company will staff Applied AI engineers from Anthropic and target mid-sized manufacturers, community banks, and regional health systems. The pitch is simple: small teams working hands-on with customers to find high-impact use cases and ship Claude-powered solutions into existing workflows. ...