Anthropic has launched Claude for Small Business, a version of its AI assistant aimed at smaller companies, bundling connections to widely used business software with a set of ready-to-run workflows.
The package links Claude to tools spanning accounting, payments, marketing and document services, allowing the assistant to draw on data from those systems and carry out routine tasks without bespoke setup.
Anthropic said the offering is designed for firms that lack dedicated technical staff, packaging common use cases — such as drafting documents, organising records and handling routine correspondence — into templates rather than requiring custom configuration.
The launch reflects a broader effort by AI developers to move beyond general-purpose chatbots and sell tailored products to specific customer segments, where integration with existing software is often the main barrier to adoption.
Small businesses have been seen as a large but hard-to-reach market for AI tools, given limited budgets and technical capacity. Competitors including OpenAI and Google have also been expanding integrations with everyday business applications.
Anthropic, the company behind the Claude models, has expanded rapidly over the past year, and the small-business product is part of a push to broaden its commercial base beyond large enterprises and software developers.