Salesforce and Anthropic launch Claudeforce, putting the CRM inside a Claude plugin
Salesforce and Anthropic on Aug. 26 announced Claudeforce, an expanded partnership that pipes Salesforce's data, workflows, and governance directly into Claude through a new plugin called Salesforce in Claude. Built on Salesforce's trusted enterprise harness — AIforce, Headless 360, Data 360, Tableau, and Slack — the plugin ships with 37 prebuilt sales skills, including meeting prep, deal-health review, and pipeline review, live for select pilot customers now with a broader beta planned for September. Salesforce says Claude-powered Slackbot is already driving 8.1 million hours of annualized productivity gains company-wide, up over 2x quarter-over-quarter — the internal case study the companies are using to justify pushing Claude further into the CRM. The deal builds on Salesforce's reported $5 billion stake in Anthropic (per Bloomberg), and it's the most substantial Claude news of an otherwise quiet week: Claude Code's and the Developer Platform's most recent releases came a day or two later, Aug 27-28, with nothing shipped since.