Anthropic Created Services Track: Consultant Rating System for Claude

Anthropic structured its Claude partner network. The company launched Services Track — a three-tier classification system for consultants helping enterprises deploy Claude in production. Simultaneously, they opened Partner Hub — a portal where all partners and their qualification levels are visible.

How Services Track Works

The system ranks partners based on real-world experience with Claude production deployments, not company size or marketing potential. Each tier requires concrete evidence: working certified specialists, production projects successfully launched, and public success stories backed by real customers.

• Select — entry point: 10+ certified specialists, 2 production customers in the last 12 months, 1 public success story
• Preferred — mid-tier: 100+ certified specialists, 15+ deployed projects, 3+ public success stories
• Global Premier — top tier: 1000+ certified specialists, 100+ projects across 3+ regions, 15+ success stories, sponsors from both sides

The key distinguishing factor between Services Track and a simple rating system: certifications are issued to individuals, not companies. Consultants must pass an exam at Anthropic Partner Academy and demonstrate they have used Claude in practice within the last 90 days. This ensures every certified specialist truly understands the tool from experience, not just from watching a webinar.

Why This System Is Needed

In March 2026, Anthropic launched Claude Partner Network with $100 million in investment for partner training, technical support, and co-marketing. The results exceeded expectations: over 40,000 firms applied to join, and over 10,000 consultants have already become Anthropic-certified. But scale created a new problem: how can enterprises select the partner who can truly help from such an abundance of options?

A successful Claude pilot project is far from the same as a fully functional system that a company can launch and scale in production. Real work lies in integrating with existing IT infrastructure, deep risk understanding, and transforming how employees and teams work. This requires partners who have already done this work before. Services Track gives clients confidence in partner qualifications.

Consulting Giants Are Reskilling

The world's largest consulting firms have already made Claude a platform for their teams:

• Accenture is training 30,000 specialists
• Cognizant deployed Claude for approximately 350,000 employees
• Deloitte made the tool available to 470,000 people globally
• KPMG is integrating Claude into a network of more than 276,000 employees
• Infosys is developing specialized Claude agents for specific industries
• PwC is deploying Claude Code and Cowork first in the US, then expanding to hundreds of thousands of employees globally

This is not a marketing campaign. This is the reskilling of the consulting industry on a new platform.

What This Means

Services Track solves two critical problems simultaneously. First, for clients: it becomes easier to select a proven partner proportional to your project scale. Second, for partners themselves: they get a clear path for developing their Claude practice. Every step from Select to Preferred to Global Premier is clearly defined, measurable, and achievable. Critically important: the system rewards not company size but real experience and depth of work. A small specialized AI company with 50 employees can reach Select or even Preferred tier faster than a large consulting firm with 10,000 people, if it has deep Claude experience and successfully delivered projects. This incentivizes focus on quality over inflating team size.