Cognizant has adopted Anthropic’s Claude family of large language models (LLMs) to help enterprises move from AI experimentation to large-scale deployment, while also introducing Claude internally to up to 3.5 lakh employees across its engineering, delivery and corporate functions.
The collaboration integrates Anthropic’s Claude models, Claude Code, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and Agent SDK with Cognizant’s existing engineering and industry platforms. This will enable clients to modernise systems, automate workflows and scale AI capabilities across business operations.
“Enterprises are moving beyond simple productivity gains toward a more connected, agentic future,” said Ravi Kumar S, CEO of Cognizant. “By pairing Anthropic’s Claude models and agentic tooling with Cognizant’s suite of platforms and industry expertise, we will help clients build the foundations of an agentified enterprise where intelligent systems collaborate with people to accelerate modernisation, engineering and industry transformation.”
Cognizant plans to use Claude and Claude Code with its Flowsource platform to accelerate software development, testing, documentation and DevOps workflows. The company will also combine its modernisation frameworks with Anthropic’s code understanding capabilities to streamline analysis and refactoring across large legacy codebases.
The partnership will extend to developing domain-specific, multi-agent systems using Cognizant Neuro AI Multi-Agent Orchestration and Anthropic’s Agent SDK. These systems will operate with human oversight and explicit policy controls to ensure responsible deployment. The companies will also work on embedding agentic workflows into regulated industries, starting with financial services, and on advancing practices for safe and standards-aligned AI operations through open frameworks such as MCP.
“The combination of frontier AI with deep domain expertise and implementation capabilities is what makes this partnership so exciting and will absolutely accelerate AI in the enterprise,” said Paul Smith, chief commercial officer at Anthropic.
“Companies require trusted AI that combines cutting-edge performance with safety and reliability, which is why hundreds of thousands of businesses trust Claude. We’re demonstrating this at scale by rolling out Claude to up to 3.5 lakh Cognizant employees and helping our joint clients do the same.”
Cognizant said it will engage clients through workshops and platform integrations using Claude to identify high-value AI use cases, accelerate pilot-to-production transitions, and measure outcomes across industries.
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