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Anthropic Launches Enterprise Agents With Plug-Ins For Finance, Engineering, and Design

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Anthropic Launches Enterprise Agents With Plug-Ins For Finance, Engineering, and Design

Anthropic has launched its most aggressive push yet to bring agentic AI into the workplace. The new enterprise agents program includes pre-built plug-ins for finance, engineering, legal, HR, and design departments.

The timing is notable. 2025 was meant to be the year agents transformed the enterprise, but the hype turned out to be mostly premature, said Kate Jensen, Anthropic head of Americas. It was not a failure of effort. It was a failure of approach.

What Changed

Previous attempts at enterprise agents tried to automate too much, too fast. The new approach is more surgical: pre-built agents for specific departments, with plug-ins that companies can customize.

The program draws on previously announced technology, particularly Claude Cowork and the plug-in system announced in January 2026. The new release makes those tools easier to deploy within a company, including private software marketplaces, controlled data flows, and customized plug-ins.

Pre-Built Agents For Every Department

The stock plug-ins included at launch take aim at particular departments present in most companies:

  • Finance: Market research, competitive analysis, financial modeling, and other common tasks for finance teams
  • Engineering: Code review, specification writing, technical documentation
  • Legal: Contract analysis, compliance checking, policy review
  • HR: Job descriptions, onboarding materials, offer letters
  • Design: Brand consistency, asset generation, creative briefs

Each plug-in includes basic skills common across different companies, although Anthropic expects that companies will modify each plug-in to bring it in line with unique needs and customs.

Enterprise Connectors

The launch also includes new enterprise connectors for Gmail, DocuSign, and Clay, allowing agents to pull data directly from corporate systems. This addresses one of the biggest enterprise objections: agents working in isolation.

Previously unavailable, these connectors allow agents to access data and context directly from linked systems.

Admins want to be able to have really tailored workflows and skills for their specific organization, said Matt Piccolella, Anthropic product officer. And this allows the admin of a Claude Cowork organization to be able to do this in a very centralized way.

The Future of Work

We believe that the future of work means everybody having their own custom agent, Piccolella told TechCrunch.

The announcement represents Anthropic most aggressive move yet to integrate agentic AI into everyday workplaces. The company is betting that previous failures were not about the technology, but about the approach.

The SaaS Threat

By embedding agents directly into enterprise workflows, Anthropic positions itself to replace SaaS tools that currently handle these functions. Financial research, code review, job descriptions all potentially handled by agents instead of dedicated software.

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