After PwC, now KPMG: Anthropic announced a global alliance with the consulting giant on May 19, integrating Claude directly into KPMG’s workflows. All 276,000 employees worldwide get access.
What’s in the Deal?
KPMG is embedding Claude into its ‘Digital Gateway’ platform — the central AI tool that KPMG consultants use to do their work. In practice, this means agentic workflows in real time, built right into the tool consultants already rely on.
The initial focus is on three areas: tax advisory, private equity, and cybersecurity. For PE clients, KPMG is being listed as Anthropic’s preferred partner — both companies will co-develop new Claude-powered products for portfolio companies.
KPMG Blaze: Claude Code for IT Modernization
Particularly interesting: KPMG Blaze. It’s a new product that embeds Claude Code to help clients with IT modernization — shorter development cycles, faster delivery of AI-enabled systems. When a Big Four firm integrates Claude Code into its core product offering, that’s a strong signal.
The Context
This is already the second major Big Four partnership for Anthropic in quick succession. PwC deepened its collaboration just on May 14. The Gates Foundation came in with $200 million. And now KPMG.
Anthropic is clearly positioning itself as the number one enterprise AI provider — ahead of OpenAI. The difference: Anthropic isn’t just selling API access. It’s building deep integrations with the world’s largest consulting firms. That creates lock-in on an entirely different level.
For the consultants themselves, day-to-day work will probably change noticeably. Whether that leads to better advice or just more slide decks per hour — that remains to be seen.
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