TCS has formed a global strategic partnership with Anthropic, becoming a Global Premier Partner in Anthropic's Claude Partner Network.
It will create a dedicated business unit focused on Claude models and use early access to the model family to develop industry-specific services and internal expertise. TCS also plans a broad internal rollout of Claude to 50,000 employees across engineering, finance, legal, marketing and sales.
The partnership targets companies trying to move artificial intelligence projects beyond pilot programmes, particularly in sectors where accuracy, auditability and oversight face close scrutiny. These include financial services, public services, life sciences, healthcare, aviation, telecoms and medtech.
Under the arrangement, the two companies will jointly market AI products and services to enterprise customers and collaborate on tools for domain-specific workflows, modernisation programmes and customer experience projects. The collaboration will also extend to TCS's own products, platforms and sector-focused offerings.
Regulated sectors
A key part of the deal focuses on regulated industries, where companies have often been slower to put generative AI into production. TCS will combine its governance and implementation work with Anthropic's Claude models to support deployment in those settings.
In the UK, Diligenta, TCS's life and pensions business regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, is set to use Claude in an effort to improve customer experience through what TCS described as agentic process transformation at scale. Diligenta serves more than 22 million life and pensions customers.
Elsewhere, TCS's banking, financial services and insurance products and platforms teams will use Claude Code to raise productivity in software engineering and IT operations. TCS also intends to contribute reusable skills and plugins to the Claude Code ecosystem in areas including claims adjudication and lending advisory.
Workforce training
The agreement also covers training and certification. TCS iON, the group's education and assessment platform, conducts more than 75 million assessments each year across 1,500 cities in India and will now offer learning and certification focused on Claude models.
This gives the partnership a broader workforce dimension beyond corporate deployments, as TCS and Anthropic look to expand familiarity with AI tools among professionals and younger workers in India. Anthropic described India as its second-largest market.
K Krithivasan, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, TCS, outlined the company's view of where enterprise AI projects succeed or fail. "Enterprise AI value comes from understanding business context, orchestrating complex systems, and applying deep AI engineering talent. By combining Claude with our industry expertise, engineering rigor, and large-scale transformation capabilities, we will help customers move faster to production, especially in industries where trust, resilience, and regulatory discipline are critical. This partnership reflects TCS's broader strategy to help clients become perpetually adaptive enterprises by turning frontier AI into transformation at enterprise scale," Krithivasan said.
Anthropic has been expanding its partner relationships as competition intensifies among AI model developers seeking distribution through large consulting and IT services groups. For TCS, the tie-up adds another large-scale AI alliance as global technology service providers race to convert demand for experiments into longer-term contracts tied to operations, software development and business process change.
Dario Amodei, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Anthropic, said the partnership would deepen the company's reach in India and in overseas markets served by TCS. "We built Claude to be safe, trusted, and helpful, particularly in contexts where accuracy matters most. This partnership deepens our commitment to India, our second-largest market, with TCS bringing Claude to enterprises and professionals across the region and globally, including 50,000 of its employees," Amodei said.
N Chandrasekaran, Chairman, Tata Sons, linked the deal to a broader push to embed AI across businesses and skills programmes. "This partnership reflects our shared conviction that AI will be foundational and transformative for enterprises worldwide. By combining Anthropic's capabilities with Tata Group's scale, trusted relationships, and nation-building commitment, we will accelerate enterprise reinvention and equip India's youth with the skills to lead in the AI era," Chandrasekaran said.