More than 40,000 firms have applied to join the Claude Partner Network, the partner network of Anthropic, the company that builds Claude. On October 26, 2026, after reviewing our application and the projects running at our clients, Anthropic accepted Avenor Innovations. We now belong to the same network as Cognizant and HCLTech, two global IT services giants that Anthropic welcomed this year at the program’s highest tier.
What is the Claude Partner Network?
It is the network through which Anthropic recognizes the firms that put Claude into production inside businesses, and where it points organizations looking for a qualified integrator. Anthropic launched it in March 2026 with an initial commitment of 100 million US dollars: training, technical support and joint marketing for its partners.
Within a few months, the network became the place to be for large services firms. Cognizant and HCLTech sit at the Global Premier tier, the program’s highest. This is the network Avenor joins today.
How do you become a Claude partner?
Joining is free. Being accepted is not a given. Every application is made on behalf of a company, never an individual, and Anthropic’s team reviews it before answering. By June 2026, more than 40,000 firms had already knocked on the door.
For our application, we put everything on the table: all of our projects, what we built, for whom, and what it does today at our clients. At the heart of it: systems in production, used every day, not demos.
And once inside, nothing is guaranteed. Anthropic ranks its partners in tiers (Select, Preferred and Global Premier) on three published measures, the same for every firm, whatever its size:
- Certified practitioners. People who hold a current Anthropic certification, earned by exam, and have used Claude in the past 90 days. A certification belongs to the person, not the firm: it cannot be bought.
- Customers in production. How many customers a firm has actually taken live with Claude. A prototype does not count.
- Public endorsements. How many customers are willing to put their name on a published story vouching for the firm.
Anthropic re-checks every partner’s standing each quarter. You do not keep your place with a logo: you keep it by delivering.
The detailed criteria are published by Anthropic: Claude Partner Network Services Track and Partner Hub ↗
What it changes for you
- Your project benefits from the training, certifications and documentation Anthropic reserves for its partners.
- You work with a firm recognized by Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft alike: we pick the best model for each task, without being locked into a single vendor.
- You keep a local, bilingual partner who knows Québec’s Law 25 and the reality of SMEs and the public sector in Québec.
What we already build with Claude
For us, Claude is not an experiment: it already works at our clients. Avenor Email was born from a B2B distribution engagement. Claude reads the team’s Outlook mailboxes, finds the threads and prepares drafts with the right signature and the right attachments, even large ones, even from a shared mailbox. Nothing goes out until a person has reviewed it and clicked Send.
The AI diagnostic on our website also relies on Claude to adapt the journey to each company’s answers.
And Claude is not just for email. We use it to build agents that run a process end to end, applications connected to your systems, and tools that read your documents for you. The rule is the same as in all our engagements: AI prepares, people decide.
How the tool works, how it is secured and how to connect it: connect Claude to Outlook and Microsoft 365 →
Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft: three yeses
The Claude Partner Network joins two other recognitions: Avenor Innovations is an OpenAI Select Partner and a member of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program. Three major enterprise AI vendors now recognize our work. At Anthropic and at OpenAI alike, that yes came after a review of our projects.
Our previous announcement: Avenor Innovations becomes an OpenAI Select Partner →
“For our application, I sent in all of our projects. I found Anthropic’s review even more demanding than OpenAI’s. Being accepted confirms that we build systems that hold up in production, not demos.”
Learn more about the Claude Partner Network: claude.com/partners ↗
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