Cognizant announced July 27 an expanded strategic partnership with Anthropic, becoming one of a small number of Global Premier Partners in the Claude Partner Network. The expanded relationship builds on the partnership announced in late last year.

The expanded partnership addresses the gap between model capability and companies’ ability to drive business results. Closing that gap extends beyond model capability. It takes the domain context, engineering depth and delivery scale to embed AI into the systems enterprises already run on.

“AI capability is rising faster than enterprises can absorb it, and that gap is the defining problem of this moment,” said Ravi Kumar S, CEO, Cognizant. “Our role is to be the bridge. We bring the industry context, the engineering scale and the trust frameworks that use Claude to deliver production outcomes inside the most demanding enterprise environments. This partnership with Anthropic is about doing that for clients who need AI they can rely on, not just experiment with.”

Cognizant is applying Claude in client work spanning multiple regulated industries. In manufacturing, Cognizant delivered a working AI-led customer experience portal for a global manufacturer within six months of the start.

In life sciences, Cognizant built an agentic contract-intelligence system for a biopharmaceutical company that has helped cut contract review time by up to 40% while lifting extraction accuracy above 88% in that deployment.

In insurance, Cognizant developed a risk-navigation tool that helped turn hours of manual research into about a minute for underwriters evaluating similar accounts, saving each underwriter roughly eight hours a week in that deployment. Additional work is underway across financial services, telecommunications and other industries.

“Deepening our partnership with Cognizant will help more companies harness AI’s growing capability and deploy it in real, practical ways for their businesses,” said Daniela Amodei, co-founder and president of Anthropic. “From manufacturing to the life sciences, Cognizant is bringing Claude into the everyday work of some of the world’s most demanding industries — the kinds of contexts where AI can demonstrate its greatest value for humanity.”

Cognizant currently holds the most certifications on Claude globally. To date, more than 30,000 Cognizant associates have completed Claude training.