KPMG Seals Global KPMG Anthropic Claude Alliance Covering 276,000 Employees
One of the world’s biggest professional services firms just made a sweeping bet on AI. KPMG has announced a global strategic alliance with Anthropic, bringing the Claude AI model directly into its operations across 138 countries and territories, covering its entire workforce of more than 276,000 people.
The KPMG Anthropic Claude alliance goes far beyond a typical software licensing deal. KPMG is embedding Claude into Digital Gateway, its core client platform built on Microsoft Azure, starting with new AI-powered tools for tax and legal clients. The platform is where KPMG professionals build and run the tools they use daily, and Claude’s integration means those teams can now create AI agents in minutes rather than weeks.
“Building an AI agent to help clients adjust to changing tax regulations used to take weeks and required teams to switch between multiple tools and chat windows,” said Rema Serafi, Vice Chair of Tax at KPMG US. “With Cowork and Managed Agents integrated in Digital Gateway, that same capability takes minutes.”
Every single KPMG employee gains access to Claude as part of the deal, building on two years of internal AI adoption within KPMG’s US operations, including its AI and Data Labs. The rollout also extends to cybersecurity, where KPMG and Anthropic teams will use Claude to find and fix vulnerabilities in critical systems, guided by KPMG’s Trusted AI framework.
Anthropic is also naming KPMG a preferred partner for private equity, a space where firms are aggressively looking to use AI to reshape how their portfolio companies operate. Under the alliance, KPMG will serve as a preferred consultant for deploying Claude into PE portfolio companies. Its new offering, KPMG Blaze, will embed Claude Code to help portfolio teams modernize legacy IT systems faster and build new AI-enabled products.
Daniela Amodei, Co-founder and President of Anthropic, framed the significance of the partnership plainly. “KPMG works in industries where accuracy, accountability, and trust aren’t optional, and they’re applying the same standard to AI,” she said. “That’s what a firm-wide commitment to AI looks like, and we’re proud to be the partner they chose.”
The alliance also has a research dimension. Joint work between KPMG and the McCombs School of Business at UT Austin is examining what the “human in the loop” concept actually means in practice, studying how employees exercise judgment, shape workflows, and make decisions alongside AI tools in high-stakes environments.
KPMG’s Global Chairman and CEO Bill Thomas said the partnership reflects a shared commitment to responsible AI, with security, trust, and governance at the center of how capabilities are scaled across the firm’s clients and people worldwide.
