PwC and Anthropic Collaborate to Advance Enterprise Agent Deployment in AI Native Finance and Healthcare & Life Sciences

PwC US and Anthropic today announced a collaboration to accelerate the deployment of enterprise AI plugins across highly regulated and mission-critical industries, beginning with AI Native Finance and Healthcare & Life Sciences (HCLS). The collaboration aligns with Anthropic’s launch of Cowork and plugin updates for enterprises and reflects growing enterprise demand to move from AI experimentation to operational deployment embedded within core workflows.

As organizations look beyond pilots and isolated copilots, the next frontier of AI value lies in agentic systems capable of executing multi-step tasks across enterprise platforms-with appropriate governance, transparency, and human oversight.

“Enterprises are moving past AI pilots and into real workflows. In all industries, especially those that are highly regulated, that means getting governance, auditability, and risk controls right from day one. PwC understands that better than anyone, and they're building the industry-specific skills and plugins on Cowork to make it happen,” said Scott White, Head of Product, Enterprise at Anthropic.

Together, PwC and Anthropic are focused on helping enterprises redesign workflows so that AI agents operate inside systems of record, support decision-making, and deliver measurable business outcomes.  

Moving from experimentation to enterprise leverage

Over the past two years, many organizations have launched generative AI pilots to test productivity gains. However, sustainable value requires more than tool adoption. It requires workflow redesign, operating model evolution, and enterprise-grade governance.

Through this collaboration, PwC will work with Anthropic to help PwC’s clients embed Claude, including the Claude Developer Platform, Claude,ai, Claude Cowork, and Claude Code, powered by Anthropic’s latest intelligent models (e.g., Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6), into complex enterprise environments where regulatory compliance, auditability, and risk controls are essential.

“AI agents are reshaping how work gets done across finance and health industries,” said Sanjay Subramanian, Anthropic Alliance Leader, PwC US. “The opportunity isn’t just smarter tools—it’s redesigned workflows where AI operates responsibly inside core business systems. Anthropic’s approach—where you organize specialized skills and ways of working with tools into plugins for a general agent—gives enterprises the performance they want with the flexibility to evolve their agent workflows much more easily.”

Initial areas of focus include: 

• AI Native Finance, spanning Strategic Finance, liquidity forecasting, scenario modeling, and capital markets intelligence.

• Healthcare, where agentic AI represents a generational opportunity to redesign how care is financed, delivered, and managed across one of the world’s most complex and regulated industries. Helping payers and providers embed governed AI agents into core clinical, operational, and financial workflows, from utilization management and care coordination to revenue cycle and population health and integrated directly within systems of record. The focus is on unlocking sustainable productivity, improving access and affordability, and strengthening enterprise resilience at scale.

• Life Sciences, where agentic AI has the potential to fundamentally accelerate discovery, clinical development, and commercialization while improving manufacturing performance and regulatory execution. Deploying governed AI agents to transform the end-to-end life sciences value chain: from target identification and clinical design and delivery, through regulatory submissions and safety processing, to commercial content generation and the agentic sales team of the future, to manufacturing quality and deviation management. These examples are just a fraction of what is possible and planned.

The focus is on business and workflow transformation: changing the way people work and how medicines are developed, manufactured, and brought to patients faster. Rather than positioning AI agents as standalone productivity tools, the collaboration emphasizes workflow reimagination, integration into enterprise systems, role-based oversight, and clearly defined human-in-the-loop controls. PwC will also develop advanced, industry-specific skills, connectors, and plug-ins on top of Anthropic’s base technology, extending Claude’s capabilities with specialized workflows, domain intelligence, and enterprise integrations tailored to finance, healthcare, and life science environments. 

An agent-first model built for regulated enterprise environments

Enterprise agents mark a shift from AI that generates outputs to AI that performs orchestrated work across enterprise systems. In regulated industries, that shift must be paired with strong governance, auditability, and human oversight.

Claude Cowork enables organizations to execute multi-step workflows, synthesize complex data, and surface transparent reasoning-while deferring appropriately to human judgment in high-stakes decisions. PwC complements these capabilities by redesigning workflows, embedding risk and Responsible AI frameworks, and aligning agent outputs with systems of record.

Together, the organizations are focused on helping enterprises scale agentic AI responsibly, accelerating execution while maintaining the controls required by regulators, boards, and stakeholders.   

“By combining Anthropic’s enterprise-ready AI with PwC’s transformation and governance capabilities, we’re helping organizations embed agentic AI where it matters most-inside the workflows that drive performance, resilience, and growth,” Subramanian added. 

Looking ahead

Today’s announcement represents an important milestone in helping advance enterprise agent adoption across regulated industries. As organizations continue to evaluate how to scale AI responsibly, PwC and Anthropic will collaborate to expand enterprise use cases, deepen integration patterns, and support clients in operationalizing agentic AI at scale.

Beyond AI Native Finance and Healthcare & Life Sciences, the organizations are exploring additional functions and sectors for agent development, including code modernization, sales, legal, private equity, and financial services-extending agentic capabilities into the next wave of enterprise transformation.

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