KPMG signs deal with Anthropic to embed Claude Cowork in the Big Four firm’s global client delivery platform starting with new capabilities for tax and legal clients
Under the deal the new KPMG Digital Gateway Powered by Claude will bring Anthropic’s AI directly into KPMG’s client delivery platform. The launch is a global initiative with tax clients and private equity firms the first to benefit.
By embedding Claude into Digital Gateway, KPMG’s inhouse AI-enabled platform, staff will be able to build agentic workflows in real time. The move will see the feature rolled out to 276,000 staff across the Big Four firm with tax employees set to benefit first.
Digital Gateway is KPMG’s global technology platform, built on Microsoft Azure, that combines KPMG tax insights, proprietary tools, and client data in one environment. Currently it is where KPMG professionals build the AI tools they use every day to service clients. ‘With Claude embedded, professionals and clients work with AI inside the platform itself, building new capabilities in real time,’ KPMG added.
‘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, tax at KPMG US.
‘With Cowork and Managed Agents integrated in Digital Gateway, that same capability takes minutes. This is a totally different way of working.’
In addition to the tax and legal teams, KPMG in the US will also embed Claude into its private equity focused product offerings, and the two organisations will co-develop new Claude-powered products for portfolio companies.
Bill Thomas, global chairman and CEO of KPMG International, said: ‘This global alliance with Anthropic reflects our shared commitment to responsible AI, prioritising security, trust, and governance as KPMG firms scale these capabilities to our clients and people around the world.’
Adding Anthropic’s Claude models inside the KPMG platform is designed to change not just the speed, but the type of work itself.
Daniela Amodei, co-founder and president of Anthropic, added: ‘KPMG works in industries where accuracy, accountability, and trust aren’t optional, and they’re applying the same standard to AI.
‘They’re rolling Claude out to 276,000 people across the business and using it for client work in tax and private equity. They’re also bringing it into cybersecurity, where it helps find and fix vulnerabilities.’