Cognizant and Anthropic expand partnership to embed Claude in Cognizant’s industry platforms
Cognizant announced an expanded strategic partnership with Anthropic, becoming one of a small number of Global Premier Partners in the Claude Partner Network. The expanded relationship builds on the partnership announced in late 2025.
With enterprises deploying multiple AI models, multi-agent networks, and applications, managing visibility and risk is becoming more difficult as systems continuously evolve and interact with one another with increasing levels of autonomy under human-defined parameters. Governance approaches built for static systems cannot keep pace with the dynamic nature of AI. According to Gartner , “organizations that deployed AI governance platforms are 3.4 times more likely to achieve effectiveness in AI governance than those that do not.” Cognizant believes this reinforces the need for centralized platforms that enable continuous, real-time oversight across AI systems.
The expanded partnership addresses the gap between model capability and companies’ ability to drive business results. Closing that gap extends beyond model capability. It takes the domain context, engineering depth and delivery scale to embed AI into the systems enterprises already run on. That is the mandate Cognizant executes as an AI Builder.
“AI capability is rising faster than enterprises can absorb it, and that gap is the defining problem of this moment,” said Ravi Kumar S, CEO, Cognizant. “Our role is to be the bridge. We bring the industry context, the engineering scale and the trust frameworks that use Claude to deliver production outcomes inside the most demanding enterprise environments. This partnership with Anthropic is about doing that for clients who need AI they can rely on, not just experiment with.”
“Deepening our partnership with Cognizant will help more companies harness AI’s growing capability and deploy it in real, practical ways for their businesses. From manufacturing to the life sciences, Cognizant is bringing Claude into the everyday work of some of the world’s most demanding industries — the kinds of contexts where AI can demonstrate its greatest value for humanity,” said Daniela Amodei, Co-Founder and President of Anthropic.
Cognizant is already applying Claude in client work spanning multiple regulated industries, with measurable results. In manufacturing, Cognizant delivered a working AI-led customer experience portal for a global manufacturer within six months of kickoff. In life sciences, Cognizant built an agentic contract-intelligence system for a biopharmaceutical company that has helped cut contract review time by up to 40 percent while lifting extraction accuracy above 88 percent in that deployment. In insurance, Cognizant developed a risk-navigation tool that helped turn hours of manual research into about a minute for underwriters evaluating similar accounts, saving each underwriter roughly eight hours a week in that deployment. Additional work is underway across financial services, telecommunications and other industries.
Cognizant currently holds the most certifications on Claude globally – a reflection of the scale of investment enterprises are making as AI services spend expands well beyond traditional technology budgets. Cognizant’s work with Travelport is one proof point of that shift: Claude is expected to be deployed across Travelport’s software delivery lifecycle, with its large context window analyzing Travelport’s codebases to surface embedded business logic at scale — one of the most technically demanding elements of enterprise modernization — to modernize how its travel retailing and distribution platforms are built, tested and maintained.
Cognizant is also embedding Claude across platforms including Flowsource™, Neuro® AI Engineering and Neuro IT Ops, as part of an open, model-agnostic strategy. Flowsource™, an established full-stack engineering platform, has evolved to introduce an agentic workforce alongside human engineers, integrating Claude Code directly into its Spec-Driven Development module. Flowsource directs these agents using specifications, coding standards and architectural blueprints, then automatically checks the output against those same standards to help support reliable, production-grade software.
With Cognizant’s recently announced Frontier workforce model, the company has committed to readying 5,000 Frontier Certified Engineers and 10,000 Frontier Business Operators credentialed directly by frontier-model companies, as part of a certification pipeline reaching 40,000 professionals. Claude certification and training already make up a meaningful and growing share of it.
To date, more than 30,000 Cognizant associates have completed Claude training, with both certification and training figures expected to grow towards the full complement of 350,000+ Cognizant associates as Cognizant expands platform fluency across the company. That depth runs through Cognizant’s software engineering practice in particular, where teams use Claude as part of how they build for clients every day, the same capability the company applies internally that it now brings to market.
