Classmethod Partners with Anthropic: Launches Consulting Services to Maximize AI-Driven Development Outcomes

“The collaboration supports Classmethod’s efforts to put artificial intelligence into action for the Japan marketing using the one of safest models”

Classmethod, Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Satoshi Yokota; hereinafter “Classmethod”) today announced a partnership with Anthropic PBC (Headquarters: United States; hereinafter “Anthropic”), a company dedicated to developing safe and useful AI systems. Classmethod will begin offering consulting services to help enterprises maximize the value of Anthropic’s “Claude” and “Claude Code” solutions. Classmethod will now strongly support enterprises in improving development productivity and accelerating AI adoption.

Claude is Anthropic’s family of AI models, featuring Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. Built for businesses of all sizes, Claude helps with everyday tasks like writing code, reviewing contracts, answering customer questions, and creating marketing content. Claude Code is Anthropic’s AI coding assistant that transforms how developers work. Claude Code accelerates development by generating production-ready code, automating repetitive tasks, refactoring across multiple files, and providing intelligent debugging assistance—all while maintaining consistent code quality and adhering to best practices. From rapid prototyping to complex system optimization, Claude Code helps engineering teams of all sizes to build better software faster, enabling organizations to turn ideas into working solutions in a fraction of the time traditionally required.

Business Use Cases Include, But Are Not Limited To:

Software Development: Claude accelerates development cycles through industry-leading code generation and refactoring, with sustained performance across entire codebases that reduces time-to-market
Document Intelligence: Claude processes documents simultaneously to extract insights, identify patterns, and generate summaries with proper citations—ideal for legal, compliance, and research teams
Knowledge Work: Claude enhances productivity by connecting to internal knowledge bases and tools, transforming how teams access institutional expertise
Content Creation: Claude produces high-quality, on-brand content while adhering to style guidelines, accelerating marketing and communications workflows

Background of the Partnership

Anthropic is a company committed to developing safe and useful AI systems. The company’s AI assistant “Claude” has been highly evaluated by enterprises for its reasoning capabilities and safety features.Meanwhile, Classmethod has extensive experience in cloud service implementation support, particularly with AWS, and has been handling numerous AI/machine learning projects for some time.

Through this partnership with Anthropic, Classmethod will provide continuous technical support and comprehensive assistance to client companies considering improving development productivity through AI and implementing reliable AI systems. This includes but is not limited to comprehensive services from implementation support to design assistance, integrations with existing systems, technical training, and operational consulting, relying on best practices for generative AI projects.

Classmethod and Anthropic will collaborate to help customers achieve:

Dramatically Accelerate Development Reduce feature development efforts from weeks to just days through rapid prototyping with Claude Code, significantly compressing development cycles while maintaining quality through automated test code generation
Facilitate Transition to AI-First Next-Generation Applications: Achieve integrated development environments where Claude seamlessly connects with databases, APIs, and development tools through MCP (Model Context Protocol) and realize improved development efficiency by establishing AI-first development processes
Strengthen Organization-Wide AI Capabilities Enable engineers and business teams to create requirements and specifications using Claude, improve organization-wide digital literacy through sharing AI utilization best practices, and promote AI adoption through upskilling existing teams
Maximize ROI on AI Investment: Visualize AI investment ROI through quantitative measurement of development productivity improvements. Realize results while minimizing risk through phased implementation approaches. Assured value creation based on Classmethod’s extensive implementation track record

Stakeholder comments

“Claude, developed by Anthropic, is a practical solution as an AI assistant that enterprises seek in terms of safety and usefulness. Claude Code, in particular, is a tool that dramatically improves developer productivity. We will leverage our technical capabilities cultivated in the AWS domain and our experience in AI/machine learning projects to support Japanese enterprises in building an AI-powered development culture. Through this partnership, we believe we can further advance digital transformation in Japan.”
Satoshi Yokota, CEO of Classmethod, Inc.

“This partnership between Classmethod and Anthropic is about rapidly delivering responsible, high-impact AI solutions that produce positive business outcomes,” said Dan Rosenthal, global head of partnerships at Anthropic. Classmethod has built an experienced practice with outstanding technical capabilities and customer understanding in the Japanese market. Through our partnership with Classmethod, we expect Japanese enterprises to achieve safer and more productive AI utilization using Claude. We believe that the improvement in development productivity through Claude Code, in particular, will bring transformation to software development in Japan.”

About Classmethod, Inc.

Classmethod, Inc. provides enterprise services using big data, mobile, IoT, and AI/machine learning technologies. Classmethod also works tirelessly to publish technical articles on its own blog media “Developers.IO”. The blog contains over 50,000 practical and hands-on entries written by its employees. Classmethod offers a variety of solutions, to uphold the company’s pledge to “Continue contributing to the creative activities of all people.”

Headquarters: 26F Hibiya Fort Tower 1-1-1 Nishishimbashi Minato-ku, Tokyo
CEO: Satoshi Yokota
Business: Cloud migration, development of big data infrastructure and mobile applications, technical assistance on AI/machine learning and LINE based software development

Official Website: https://classmethod.jp/
DevelopersIO (tech blog): https://dev.classmethod.jp/
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