On Tuesday the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence lab Anthropic unveiled 10 new ways for business customers to integrate its Claude model into key corporate workflows, expanding its push to sell increasingly autonomous AI into the enterprise market.
The company said the newly announced plug-ins are designed to assist with tasks across several professional functions. In investment banking, the add-ons can help review deals. For wealth management teams, they can provide portfolio analysis. And for human resources, the tools can shape new-hire materials so those documents better reflect a company's tone and policies. Anthropic also highlighted plug-ins aimed at private equity, engineering and design work.
Anthropic said it is releasing options to connect Claude with commonly used business applications, specifically mentioning Google Calendar and Gmail as targets for integration. The lab, which counts Alphabet's Google and Amazon.com among its backers, said the latest push of releases demonstrates its strategy to move ahead of competitors in selling autonomous AI to enterprise customers ahead of a widely expected public offering.
The startup faces competition from a number of large AI developers, including Google, OpenAI and Elon Musk's xAI. Anthropic has previously stated that it has not decided whether it will go public.
Anthropic acknowledged that an earlier product release caused market disruption. Last month the company released a legal plug-in that coincided with an $830 billion global selloff in software and services stocks over six trading days, a rout investors attributed to concerns that AI-driven automation could threaten substantial portions of those firms' revenue streams.
"It’s not a product that’s trying to own every workflow," Scott White, Anthropic's head of product for enterprise, said in an interview. "We’re providing infrastructure and intelligence so our partners or our customers can bring their business knowledge, their expertise, their trusted relationships and their customers to the equation."
Anthropic said the new plug-ins were developed in collaboration with partners, naming LSEG and FactSet among them. The company also noted that clients including Thomson Reuters and RBC Wealth Management are using AI agents powered by its technology. Anthropic added that companies will have the ability to build and manage their own plug-ins as well.
The sequence of product announcements this year reflects Anthropic's effort to secure a foothold in the lucrative enterprise segment by offering tailored automation and integrations, while navigating the market reaction that followed its prior legal plug-in release.
As Anthropic broadens the set of business functions its technology can touch, the company continues to position Claude as infrastructure that augments customer expertise rather than wholly replacing established workflows.