Anthropic has launched Claude Managed Agents, a new product aimed at making it easier for businesses to build and deploy AI agents. Announced on Wednesday, the tool provides developers “out-of-the-box infrastructure” for creating autonomous systems, designed to simplify a complex process that has been a barrier to automating work tasks. (The source does not specify a physical location for the announcement.)
The release comes as Anthropic’s enterprise business grows rapidly. The company said its annualized recurring revenue has surpassed $30 billion, roughly three times higher than it was in December 2025, as both Anthropic and OpenAI race to expand enterprise offerings ahead of possible public listings later this year.
Anthropic’s head of product for the Claude Platform, Angela Jiang, said the company sees a gap between what its models can do and how businesses are using them. “Enables any business to take the best-in-class infrastructure and deploy a fleet of Claude agents to do whatever work they need,” she said.
Managed Agents supplies an agent harness, described as the software infrastructure that wraps around an AI model so it can work “agentically” and take actions on a user’s behalf. The harness includes software tools and a memory system, along with a built-in sandboxed environment where agents can securely spin up software projects. Developers can also create agents that run autonomously for hours in the cloud, monitor other agents’ activity, and toggle permissions for tool access.
Katelyn Lesse, head of engineering for the Claude Platform, said deploying agents at scale has been a “complex distributed-systems engineering problem,” and that Managed Agents is intended to provide that capability out of the box.
In a WIRED demo, Notion showed how it is using Managed Agents for client onboarding. Notion product manager Eric Liu demonstrated off-loading a list of onboarding tasks to a Claude Managed Agent that completed them step by step, while also checking agent activity and tool usage through a Claude Platform dashboard.
The launch also arrives as investors have grown wary of software stocks, in part because Anthropic’s expanding enterprise product lineup has raised questions about whether it could make some traditional SaaS offerings less relevant. Even so, the source notes that Anthropic “still has significant ground to cover” before most enterprises are fully running on Claude.
Source: Business Latest