Decode is among the first firms admitted to Anthropic's new partner program. Here is why this matters more than most partnership announcements, and what it changes for the organisations we work with.
This week, Anthropic launched the Claude Partner Network, its single global program for the firms that put Claude into production for customers. Decode has been accepted as a launch partner. The network went live on 3 June 2026, and we are a launch partner bringing this forward from day one.
To understand why this is worth your attention, you need one number. MIT's State of AI in Business 2025 study found that 95% of enterprise generative AI pilots deliver no measurable impact on the P&L. Not because the models are weak, but because organisations bolt AI onto processes that were never designed for it, then wonder why the pilot never leaves the lab. The same research found something else: pilots that combined internal teams with external specialists succeeded three times as often as those built in isolation.
As one of the leading and most business-adapted AI companies, Anthropic designed its partner program around exactly that gap. Membership is not a referral setup, and it is not symbolic dance. Standing in the network is measured on three things: certified people, live production deployments, and publicly documented customer outcomes. Certifications are held by individuals, not firms, and they expire without ongoing activity. A deployment only counts once it is running at sustained production consumption. Pilots and proofs of concept do not count. Churned projects do not count.
That last detail is the interesting one. Most of the industry still celebrates pilots. Anthropic built a program that structurally ignores them. The only thing that registers is software running in production, delivering value a customer is willing to put their name on. It is the same standard we have always held ourselves to, now formalised by the company building some of the industry's most renowned models.
What this means in practice
For Decode, the network is a direct connection with a company deeply ingrained in our work and the ethical standards we hold. Partners operate inside Anthropic's ecosystem with direct lines into the teams building Claude: certified training paths for our practitioners, dedicated environments for developing and testing solutions before they ever touch a client system, product updates straight from the source, and a registered, verified delivery relationship on every engagement we run.
For our clients, the practical effects are concrete. The work we deliver on Claude is visible to and verified by Anthropic itself. The people on your engagement hold current, individually earned certifications. And when an implementation needs depth from the platform side, we are not sending a support ticket into the void. We are operating inside a structure built for exactly that.
There is a broader signal here too. Anthropic launching a formal partner network tells you where enterprise AI is heading. The experimental phase is closing. Model providers are now organising the delivery layer with the same rigour they apply to the models, because production is where the value lives and production is where most organisations get stuck. The firms inside these networks will compound that advantage. The 95% failure rate is not a technology problem. It is a delivery problem, and delivery is precisely what this program measures.
We have been building with Claude in production for some time. Now we do it as a recognised part of the network around it.
If you are weighing how to take AI from pilot to production, or your current initiative is stuck somewhere in between, get in touch.