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Anthropic announced Monday that it has partnered with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs to launch a new AI-native enterprise services company \u2014 one that puts the Claude maker in direct competition with the world\u2019s largest consulting firms for the lucrative business of corporate AI transformation. <\/p>\n
The venture, backed by approximately $1.5 billion in committed capital, is designed to embed Anthropic\u2019s engineers and models directly into the core operations of mid-size businesses, according to the Wall Street Journal<\/em> citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n The target market is enormous. For every dollar companies spend on software, they spend six on services \u2014 a ratio that has made consulting a multitrillion-dollar industry and that AI-native firms are now positioning to disrupt. Sequoia partner Julien Bek argued in April that the world\u2019s next great company won\u2019t sell software at all, but outcomes: legal services, financial analysis, insurance processing delivered by AI while billed like consulting. The Anthropic joint venture is essentially that thesis, capitalized and staffed.<\/p>\n The new firm is a standalone entity with Anthropic engineering resources embedded directly within its team, according to the official press release, a structure that mirrors Palantir\u2019s forward-deployment model and undercuts traditional consultants by combining implementation capability with ownership of the underlying model. Alongside the three founding partners, the joint venture has drawn backing from General Atlantic, Leonard Green, Apollo Global Management, Singapore\u2019s sovereign wealth fund GIC, and Sequoia Capital, giving it a built-in client pipeline across hundreds of portfolio companies.<\/p>\n In an implicit indictment of the existing consulting model, Blackstone President and COO Jon Gray said the firm aims to break down \u201cone of the most significant bottlenecks to enterprise AI adoption,\u201d namely the scarcity of engineers who can implement frontier AI systems at speed.<\/p>\n Private equity was a natural beachhead. As Fortune<\/em> reported in November 2025, PE-backed CFOs already face mounting sponsor pressure to embed AI into planning, forecasting, and reporting, with 85% of buyers now factoring AI-enabled finance capabilities into company valuations. Firms that fail to integrate AI risk being penalized at exit. The Anthropic venture offers PE sponsors a turnkey alternative to hiring Big Three consultants at what is likely to be a fraction of the cost.<\/p>\n \u201cEnterprise demand for Claude is significantly outpacing any single delivery model,\u201d Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao said. \u201cThis new firm brings additional operating capability to the ecosystem.\u201d <\/p>\n Goldman Sachs\u2019 Marc Nachmann added that the venture would help \u201cdemocratize access to forward-deployed engineers\u201d for companies that currently can\u2019t afford the talent \u2014 or the consulting fees \u2014 to build AI systems on their own.<\/p>\n The announcement comes as rival OpenAI is reportedly pursuing a near-identical structure with TPG and Bain Capital. The future of AI revenue may not look like software licensing, but instead like consulting, rebuilt from the model up.<\/p>\n For this story,\u00a0<\/em>Fortune\u00a0journalists used generative AI as a research tool. 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