Blend360 reaches Select tier in Anthropic's Claude Partner Network

What the Select tier recognizes

According to the announcement, the Claude Partner Network is how Anthropic works with the firms that put Claude into production for customers. Its Services Track recognizes partners for three things: building a certified delivery team, delivering Claude use cases for clients, and proving the work through public customer references.

Partners advance through four tiers: Certified, Select, Preferred, and Global Premier. Blend360 says it has now reached the second of those levels.

Why enterprise AI stalls, according to Blend

Blend argues that most enterprise AI stalls before it reaches production. Across the sectors it works in, which include financial services, healthcare and life sciences, retail, travel and hospitality, energy, and technology, media, and telecom, the company says the model can usually do the job. In its view, three barriers hold teams back:

• Agreeing which workflows are worth building.
• Seeing how a non-deterministic system will actually behave.
• Knowing who is accountable when a person needs to step in.

Blend says its Claude practice is built to clear those three barriers.

Ozgur Dogan, Chief Executive Officer of Blend, said in the release: "The question enterprises are asking has changed. It's no longer whether Claude can do the work. It's how to put it into production, govern it at scale, and make it last."

How Blend deploys Claude

Blend says it deploys Claude end to end. It uses Claude Code for engineering teams, Claude Cowork for the people who run the business, and agentic solutions built on the Claude API.

Each client gets a senior Forward Deployed Expert who works on site or local to the client and owns the outcome. Applied AI Engineers and Agentic Engineers build alongside that person.

Governance is agreed before anything is built, according to Blend. That covers autonomy states and evaluations, as well as named human-in-the-loop checkpoints on the client's own infrastructure. The company also states that clients own the solution and the code.

Blend adds that it runs Claude Enterprise and Claude Cowork across its own organization in four regions, so the rollout patterns it brings to clients are ones it already uses itself.

What comes next

Blend says it plans to grow its certified Claude delivery team and bring Claude into production for more of its enterprise clients. For companies weighing Claude deployments, the announcement shows how a services partner positions itself around production use, governance and accountability rather than pilots. The release does not give figures on clients, projects or results. More information on the partner program is available at claude.com/partners, according to the release.