Analysis · Published July 2, 2026 · Versión en español

Globant + Anthropic: what it means for companies in LATAM

On June 30, 2026, Globant announced a multi-year strategic alliance with Anthropic, becoming the largest services company born in Latin America to join the Claude Partner Network. Globant entered as one of the first Preferred Services Partners, gave Claude access to its 28,500 employees, and is targeting 5,000 certified architects. For companies in the region, the message is clear: Claude stopped being a bet and became the LATAM enterprise standard.

What exactly was announced

According to the official June 30, 2026 press release, the alliance has four concrete components:

Multi-year alliance and Preferred tier.Globant joins Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network as one of the program’s first Preferred Services Partners.
Claude-powered AI Pods. Globant integrates Claude models into its AI Pods, its agent-orchestrated service units. Today 40% of its top 20 revenue-generating accounts already use that model.
Internal adoption and certification.Claude access for its 28,500 employees and a growing practice targeting 5,000 certified architects (Forward Deploy Engineers) under Anthropic’s certification programs.
Declared verticals. Media and entertainment, airlines, gaming, and hospitality, the sectors where Globant concentrates its enterprise offering.

It is great news for the ecosystem: the largest engineering company born in the region committed its AI roadmap to Claude.

Why this validates the category

A year ago, the question in boardrooms was “which AI model do we choose?”. Today the data is answering it on its own: when a 28,500-person company commits a multi-year alliance and thousands of certifications to a single provider, the evaluation phase is over.

And it is not an isolated event. It joins a 2026 pattern:

CI&T (Brazil, NYSE) joined the Claude Partner Network on June 9 with more than 1,000 AI engineers certified on Claude, focused on financial services, retail, and consumer goods.
Anthropic invested $100 million in the Claude Partner Network and launched the Services Track with public, verifiable tiers (Select, Preferred, and Global Premier).

The Services Track changed how AI consulting is bought: every partner’s standing (active certifications, customers in production, public stories) is measured against the same requirements for everyone, and tier promotions are processed twice a year. We explain the full program in our Anthropic Partner Network guide.

What kind of projects Globant will serve

The profile is in its own announcement: AI Pods for agentic transformation in media, entertainment, airlines, gaming, and hospitality, with 40% of its top 20 accounts already operating under that model. In other words: large, multi-year programs for organizations the size of its current accounts. If your company fits that profile, the alliance is excellent news: you will have the region’s largest engineering force implementing Claude with direct backing from Anthropic.

And what about the rest of the market

Most LATAM companies do not have seven-figure projects and do not need an army of architects. They have concrete processes that hurt: a compliance team reviewing regulation by hand, a finance person spending 20 hours a week downloading and cross-checking reports, a contact center that does not scale, mortgage paperwork that takes 3 days.

For that segment, projects between $50,000 and $250,000 USD in finance, manufacturing, retail, and pharma, the right model is not scale: it is dedication. A small senior team 100% focused on Claude that comes in, implements, and leaves the process running in production within weeks. That is exactly the space where Vorantis operates from Monterrey, with projects in Mexico and Colombia.

How to decide which partner type you need

Criterion	Scale partner (Globant, CI&T)	Dedicated boutique (Vorantis)
Typical project size	Seven figures, multi-year programs	$50-250K USD, bounded processes
Focus verticals	Media, gaming, airlines, hospitality	Finance, manufacturing, retail, pharma
Delivery model	Large teams, broad transformation	Small senior team, process in production within weeks
When to choose it	Organization-wide transformation	Automating specific processes with measurable ROI

It is not a better-or-worse decision: it is a fit decision. The right proposal for a full corporate transformation and the right one for automating your bank reconciliation do not come from the same type of firm.

What you should do this week if you are evaluating Claude

Identify the 3 most manual processes in your finance, compliance, or operations area.
If you already deployed Copilot, compare results on those processes before assuming a single tool solves everything. Our Copilot + Claude Coexistence Assessment does exactly that in 2-3 weeks, and our take on the stack question is in Claude vs Copilot: a stack, not a versus.
Talk to more than one partner type: one scale player and one dedicated firm. The proposals will tell you more than any analysis.

Frequently asked questions

What did Globant and Anthropic announce?

A multi-year strategic alliance announced on June 30, 2026: Globant joins the Claude Partner Network as one of the first Preferred Services Partners, integrates Claude-powered AI Pods, gives Claude access to its 28,500 employees, and targets 5,000 certified architects.

What is the Claude Partner Network?

Anthropic’s partner program. Since 2026 it includes a Services Track with verifiable tiers (Select, Preferred, and Global Premier) that reflect each firm’s certified bench, production deployments, and public customer stories.

What does the Preferred tier mean?

It requires at least 100 active certified individuals, 15 joint customers deployed in production, and 3 public customer stories. The entry tier, Select, requires 10 active certifications, 2 customers in production in the trailing 12 months, and 1 public story. Global Premier requires 1,000 certifications, 100 customers across 3 or more regions, and 15 public stories.

Does this alliance affect mid-sized LATAM companies?

Positively: it validates the technology and accelerates the certified-talent ecosystem. Seven-figure programs will go to scale partners; $50-250K projects continue to be served by dedicated boutique partners.

Who implements Claude in Mexico for mid-sized projects?

Boutique partners of the Claude Partner Network with local operations. Vorantis, based in Monterrey, is a 100% Claude-dedicated partner implementing regulatory compliance, document processing, conversational agents, and financial process automation in production.

Do Copilot and Claude compete or coexist?

In practice they coexist: Copilot for personal productivity in Office 365, Claude for business processes that demand reasoning over data and documents. A comparative assessment on real processes settles the question with evidence.