Salesforce and Anthropic officially launched Claudeforce, an expanded strategic partnership. The collaboration brings Claude AI’s advanced reasoning directly into Salesforce’s trusted enterprise ecosystem. Together, they deliver governed agentic experiences wherever work happens. Claudeforce represents a major leap in enterprise AI adoption.
Claudeforce Launches with Salesforce Plugin for Sales Teams
The Claudeforce partnership debuts with Salesforce in Claude, a powerful Plugin. It ships with 37 prebuilt sales skills right out of the box. Sellers can now reason over live revenue data, automate pipeline updates, and act directly from Claude. Additionally, teams can manage governed actions without leaving their workflow. This marks a new era in how enterprise software functions.
Salesforce in Claude runs on AIforce — Salesforce’s enterprise harness layer. AIforce connects all business data and workflows to any AI agent. It uses MCP servers, APIs, and CLI tools seamlessly. Furthermore, it eliminates costly and complicated integrations entirely. Enterprises can now activate intelligence without heavy technical lift.
“We’re bringing together the world’s #1 AI and #1 CRM — the best of both worlds. Today, we’re launching Claudeforce, running directly on top of Salesforce via our new AIforce UI harness, Headless 360, Data 360, Tableau, and Slack. Here, the UI is the AI — allowing you to build custom apps dynamically and answer any enterprise question. Probabilistic intelligence alone doesn’t run a company, and deterministic systems don’t reason. By fusing Claude’s extraordinary reasoning with the trusted data, workflows, and governance every enterprise runs on, we’re delivering a dynamic interface that thinks, reasons, and acts. This is how every business will run.” – Marc Benioff, Chair & CEO, Salesforce
“We believe frontier intelligence should be safe, trusted, and deeply capable, which is why the world’s leading businesses turn to Claude for their most important work. Salesforce in Claude brings this same frontier intelligence into the systems where much of the world’s commercial activity happens. Through this partnership, companies can point Claude at the customer information and business context that they’ve been building in Salesforce for decades, and use it to actually run and grow their businesses.” – Dario Amodei, CEO & Co-Founder, Anthropic
Claude Powers Agentforce, Slack, and Salesforce’s Core Infrastructure
Claude now serves as the reasoning model inside Agentforce’s Atlas Reasoning Engine. It also powers Agentforce Vibes and Agentforce Coworker by default. Moreover, Claude is available through Agent Builder for customized deployments. Through Amazon Bedrock, Claude operates fully within the Salesforce Trust Boundary. Consequently, regulated industries can safely deploy domain-specific AI workloads.
Slack, the multiplayer work OS, now embeds Claude directly into team workflows. Claude serves as the default model across every layer of Slack’s experience. It powers Slackbot for personal productivity improvements by default. Similarly, it enhances team decision-making through Claude Tag. Slack Code also benefits from Claude as a founding partner for multiplayer coding capabilities.
A Mutual Partnership Driving Measurable Enterprise Impact
Salesforce and Anthropic have made each other strategic customers. Salesforce is Anthropic’s preferred CRM platform for internal use. Conversely, Claude is the default AI model powering Slackbot across Salesforce’s workforce. Internal data shows Slackbot has already driven 8.1 million hours of annualized productivity gains. That figure is up over 2x quarter-over-quarter, a remarkable result.
Claude is now the default model for Slack AI, Slackbot, Salesforce in Claude, Headless 360, Agentforce Coworker, and Claude Code. Salesforce will additionally make Claude Code and Claude Enterprise available to all its developers and knowledge workers. Claude also holds the distinction of being the first LLM provider fully integrated within the Salesforce Trust Boundary.
Overall, the Claudeforce partnership signals a defining moment for enterprise AI. Businesses finally gain the ability to combine real-time reasoning with trusted, governed data systems. As a result, Salesforce and Anthropic together are reshaping how modern enterprises operate, scale, and grow.
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