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title: "Salesforce and Anthropic expand partnership"
description: "Salesforce and Anthropic announced an expanded partnership making Claude a preferred model for Salesforce’s Agentforce platform, with availability aimed at customers in regulated sectors including financial services, healthcare, cybersecurity, and life sciences. Through Amazon Bedrock, Claude traffic will remain within Salesforce’s virtual private cloud and trusted environment, while industry-specific solutions are being developed beginning with financial services. The companies are also deepening Claude’s Slack integration through a Model Context Protocol server that can access channels, messages, and files for summaries, decisions, drafts, searches, and connected Salesforce CRM and Tableau insights. Salesforce is deploying Claude Code across its global engineering organization, and Anthropic uses Claude in Slack for internal sales workflows. Agentforce powered by Anthropic and the Claude-Slack bidirectional integrations are available today, while the regulated industry collaboration and Agentforce 360 integration for Claude remain under development."
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# Salesforce and Anthropic expand partnership

[Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic) · Sep 10, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Salesforce and Anthropic announced an expanded partnership making Claude a preferred model for Salesforce’s Agentforce platform, with availability aimed at customers in regulated sectors including financial services, healthcare, cybersecurity, and life sciences. Through Amazon Bedrock, Claude traffic will remain within Salesforce’s virtual private cloud and trusted environment, while industry-specific solutions are being developed beginning with financial services. The companies are also deepening Claude’s Slack integration through a Model Context Protocol server that can access channels, messages, and files for summaries, decisions, drafts, searches, and connected Salesforce CRM and Tableau insights. Salesforce is deploying Claude Code across its global engineering organization, and Anthropic uses Claude in Slack for internal sales workflows. Agentforce powered by Anthropic and the Claude-Slack bidirectional integrations are available today, while the regulated industry collaboration and Agentforce 360 integration for Claude remain under development.

## Context

Salesforce and Anthropic cite the need for frontier AI capabilities with appropriate safeguards in regulated industries and announce an expanded partnership to support sensitive workloads, industry-specific use cases, and everyday work.

## Approach / What changed

The partnership makes Claude a preferred Agentforce model through Amazon Bedrock, keeps Claude traffic within Salesforce’s virtual private cloud, develops financial-services solutions, deepens Claude and Slack integration through an MCP server, and deploys Claude Code at Salesforce while Anthropic uses Claude in Slack.

## Takeaways

- Claude is fully integrated within Salesforce’s trust boundary, with all Claude traffic contained within the Salesforce virtual private cloud; Agentforce powered by Anthropic is available today for select customers.
- The planned financial-services integration combines Claude for Financial Services with Agentforce Financial Services to support portfolio summaries, industry-requirement alerts, consent tracking, and customer outreach.
- Slack’s MCP server lets Claude access channels, messages, and files, while users can invoke it in Slack to analyze documents, search the web, and retrieve connected Salesforce CRM or Tableau insights.

**Tags:** [Agentforce](https://yomu.fyi/topic/agentforce), [Claude](https://yomu.fyi/topic/claude), [MCP](https://yomu.fyi/topic/mcp), [Slack](https://yomu.fyi/topic/slack)

- Source: [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/salesforce-anthropic-expanded-partnership)
- Source URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/salesforce-anthropic-expanded-partnership
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-09-10T20:03:36.978Z

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