On Tuesday, Anthropic unveiled its new enterprise agents program, marking its most aggressive push yet to integrate agentic AI into everyday workplaces. In an official briefing, Anthropic’s head of Americas, Kate Jensen, told reporters that the new system would finally deliver on the promise of agentic AI. “2025 was meant to be the year agents transformed the enterprise, but the hype turned out to be mostly premature,” Jensen said. “It wasn’t a failure of effort. It was a failure of approach.”
Under the new program, companies can use a plug-in system to deploy pre-built agents for common enterprise tasks, including financial research and engineering specifications. This represents a major opportunity to grow Anthropic’s enterprise client base and poses a significant threat to SaaS products currently performing those functions. “We believe that the future of work means everybody having their own custom agent,” Anthropic product officer Matt Piccolella stated.
Much of the enterprise agents program draws on previously announced technology, particularly Claude Cowork and a plugin system announced in research preview on January 30th. The newly launched systems focus on making those tools easier to deploy within a company, featuring private software marketplaces, controlled data flows, and customized plugins. The result is a system for deploying Claude-powered agents with the same controls a corporate IT department would expect when deploying software.
“Admins want to be able to have really, really, really tailored workflows and skills for their specific organization,” Piccolella said. “And this allows the admin of a Claude Cowork organization to be able to do this in a very centralized way.”
The stock plugins included at launch target specific departments common within most companies, including agents designed for finance, legal, and HR. Each plugin includes basic skills common across different companies, though Anthropic expects companies will modify each plugin to align with their unique needs and customs.
For finance, the stock plugin provides Claude with the basic information and data flows necessary to perform market and competitive research, financial modeling, and other common tasks for finance teams. The HR plugin includes skills for generating job descriptions, onboarding materials, and offer letters, among other functions.
The launch also includes a number of new enterprise connectors, such as integrations for Gmail, DocuSign, and Clay. Previously unavailable, these connectors will allow agents to pull in data and context directly from the linked systems.