Anthropic on Tuesday rolled out 10 new plugins and a batch of enterprise connectors for Claude Cowork, its desktop productivity agent, in what amounts to the company's most direct assault yet on traditional enterprise software. The announcement came during a livestreamed event that Anthropic billed as "The Briefing: Enterprise Agents."
The plugins cover financial analysis, investment banking, equity research, private equity, wealth management, HR, design, engineering, operations, and brand voice. New connectors include Google Workspace apps, DocuSign, FactSet, and Slack. It's a long list, and the ambition is hard to miss: Anthropic wants Claude sitting inside every department of every company.
The SaaS killer that keeps inviting SaaS to dinner
Here's the weird thing about this launch. Anthropic's product releases have wiped an estimated $800 billion from global software stocks since early February. Thomson Reuters dropped nearly 16% in a single day. LegalZoom sank almost 20%. And yet there was Thomson Reuters CEO Steve Hasker on stage Tuesday, cheerfully calling Anthropic a partner.
"2025 was meant to be the year agents transformed the enterprise, but the hype turned out to be mostly premature," said Kate Jensen, Anthropic's head of Americas. "It wasn't a failure of effort. It was a failure of approach." That's a clean line, and Jensen delivered it with confidence. Whether Anthropic's approach is actually different or just better-timed is the question nobody on stage addressed.
The market reaction Tuesday was telling. While a software sector ETF had closed down nearly 5% the day before in anticipation, it recovered to close down less than 1% once the details landed. Salesforce rose 4%. FactSet gained 5%. DocuSign climbed nearly 6%. Investors apparently decided that being named as an Anthropic connector partner is better than being an Anthropic competitor.
What the plugins actually do
According to Anthropic's blog post, each plugin was built with practitioners in the relevant field. The finance plugins handle market research, financial modeling, comparable company analyses, and pitch materials. The HR plugin generates job descriptions, onboarding plans, and offer letters. Design covers UX copy, accessibility audits, and user research plans.
If that reads like a job description for a mid-level analyst or coordinator, that's the point. "We believe that the future of work means everybody having their own custom agent," Anthropic product officer Matt Piccolella told TechCrunch. It's a bold framing that conveniently sidesteps the displacement question.
Peter McCrory, Anthropic's head of economics, said during the livestream that the company isn't yet seeing evidence of widespread labor displacement. Scott White, head of product for enterprise, called the stock market reaction "a little bit of an overreach or overreaction." Perhaps. IBM shareholders who watched their stock drop 11% after Anthropic's COBOL modernization announcement last week might disagree.
The admin play
The less flashy but probably more important part of Tuesday's launch: enterprise admin controls. Admins can now build private plugin marketplaces, provision plugins per user, auto-install across teams, and pull from private GitHub repositories as plugin sources. There's also OpenTelemetry support for tracking usage and costs.
This is the kind of infrastructure that gets IT departments to sign off on purchases. Plugins as "simple, portable file systems" that work across Cowork and anything built on the Claude Agent SDK is a smart architectural choice, even if the phrase "private plugin marketplace" feels like it was designed to make a CIO's eyes light up.
So what does $380 billion buy you?
Anthropic closed a $30 billion funding round earlier this month at a $380 billion valuation, more than double its September figure. The enterprise push explains where that money is going. The company says roughly 80% of its business comes from enterprise customers, and this launch is clearly built to deepen that.
Claude can now also orchestrate across Excel and PowerPoint, passing context between the two apps for multi-step workflows. It's in research preview. The cross-app capability points toward something more ambitious than plugins for individual departments, something closer to an AI that moves through your entire workday.
The new connectors and plugins are available now for Claude Enterprise customers. The Excel-to-PowerPoint workflow is in research preview for all paid plans on Mac and Windows.
