Discussion
Anthropic invests $100 million into the Claude Partner Network
rishabhaiover: Naive question but do people really value certifications like these?
skybrian: I wonder who the audience is for an announcement about spending a lot of money on something vague?
alephnerd: Businesses that are already in conversations about building partnerships with Anthropic.The real revenue that foundation model companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and others generate comes from enterprise deals with a smattering of government - not consumer.Consumer usage is largely a loss leader and training/refining tool.
SpicyLemonZest: They do. Certifications make technical expertise legible to non-technical decisionmakers, and I've encountered people on both sides of that dynamic who affirmatively like it when companies set up programs like this. Obviously you and I would rather have someone who understands Claude make decisions about whether and how to use it, but in a lot of industries that's not realistic.
KiranRao0: My naive guess is that business with no tech component hire consultants, and these are part of the sales pitch.Or governments/large organizations performing box checking exercises
MattGaiser: Non-technicals do.
peterweisz: Would be grateful for a pointer on how to sign up to this.
cebert: Unfortunately some business leads value these types of certifications and partner programs. I imagine there’s a great deal of overlap with these folks and those who use Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for purchasing decisions.
101008: Imagine being so close to build AGI and erase software engineer in the next 6 months, that you need to throw $100M to build a certification program...
3rodents: Most employees at most businesses show up do as they are trained and then go home, because that is what is asked of them. Even those who might have the inclination to explore new technology often will not for fear of doing something wrong. And that creates a big market for training: a company wants their employees to use Claude so the employees must be trained.Startups / technology companies that expect employees to be self-starters who can be set free to frolic amongst the problems are an aberration.
colesantiago: The Suits, HR and execs would love this:"Must have a degree or certification in Claude.""Must hold an OpenClaw 2026 Grade II Certificate"
iugtmkbdfil834: Uhh.. Deloitte and Accenture.. not exactly what I would call a good partner here unless you are looking for name recognition at executive level. Is that all that it is?
sakesun: Even God need certificate in ministry system
clpm4j: It's part of enterprise sales which is how Anthropic will potentially be a long-term business.
pempem: Who purchases and greenlights adoption? These cycles are very long and partnering with consulting firms gets you cross industry access.In fact, if you look at basically every major AI/LLM player you'll see a similar "alliance" or "partnership". Its a sales channel of high end referrals.
greatgib: Such a joke to advertise Claude as a tool to work on corporate technical debt when it is definitively the thing that will increase it a lot.And let's not even discuss the vacuity of their new cash machine certifications. "Architect" come on...
skippyboxedhero: Consultancies do. Deloitte are quoted on the page. Consultancy people at my place of work have all been "AI trained".Doesn't stop them being useless though, like giving an electric drill to a chimp and telling them to build a house...lots of action, a lot of screeching, not much work.One of the mistakes with AI is that people believe it will turn lead into gold: if you give AI bad prompts, AI will produce bad work.
nerdsniper: https://customization-agility-483.my.site.com/anthropicpartn...Linked from here: https://claude.com/partners
ekropotin: The first link looks very suspicious
adi_kurian: This appears to have McKinsey's brand ID.
nlawalker: As a consumer of them, I love them: a company with an influential, widely-used technology or platform spends a ton of money signaling to the industry exactly what's important to know about it, creating training curriculum for it, and a whole infrastructure to verify when someone knows it, I'm going to take them up on all of that, especially in the cases where the investment is like $100, a little bit of studying (the likes of which I'd want to do anyway if I'm learning something new, and I'm happy to have their structured, prioritized list of topics and/or guided curriculum) and a couple hours taking an online-proctored exam. From that perspective, I don't have a good reason not to have a certification in something that's super relevant to my role.In interview/hiring situations where they're not expected or effectively required, they make for great chat fodder and a really good opportunity to exhibit awareness about yourself, the industry, and how the person on the other side of the table might perceive certifications given the context.
laborcontract: God I hatelove this type of comment. You're totally right, but it's a complete repudiation of my initial reflex, which is to make a mockery of this.Great perspective. I'm going to do this. Haha.
itintheory: Appears to be where the actual link, http://partnerportal.anthropic.com/s/partner-registration, redirects. Site.com is some Salesforce related domain.
throwawaytea: If you give bad prompts to humans it produces bad work too.
