You can now discover tools, agents and expert partners on Claude Marketplace. Use it to: - Connect the tools your team already works in, like Figma, Notion, and Slack. - Buy products built on Claude from companies like Cursor, CrowdStrike, and Snowflake. - Or find a service partner, like Accenture, Boston Consulting Group, or Deloitte, to help you roll Claude out across your company. Browse the marketplace: claude.com/marketplace And if you're building for Claude, list your tools, agents or services here: https://lnkd.in/eRj-k48M
But how secure is this Claude Marketplace when exposing all our team data to third-party tools and partners? And why limit listing options for providers to just Claude-built stuff? Shouldn't we see what others bring to the table?
Claude for Business A strong move toward making enterprise AI adoption more ecosystem-driven. The combination of tools, agents, and expert partners in one marketplace could significantly reduce the friction of discovering and deploying AI capabilities at scale. The real value will come from how seamlessly these integrations fit into existing enterprise workflows.
Claude Marketplace really simplifies the process of adding new tools. Denodo is already in the marketplace so one single MCP connection gives you access to all data sources and active context layer on top!
There’s room for small implementation shops in this ecosystem too. A lot of companies aren’t looking for a company-wide transformation. They have one important workflow they need rebuilt around AI, using the way the business already works.
This really helps a lot with the friction of discovering and installing plugins in Claude. I've seen more people spending larger portions of their day working in Claude, especially if the platforms they work with have well-designed MCPs that connect in the flow. Intent-based product design starts with surfacing your product in the tools your users are already using.
Most business owners know what's slowing their team down. Finding someone who can actually fix it is the hard part. Bringing AI tools and the people who can put them to work into one marketplace could make that search a whole lot easier.
The marketplace play makes sense for distribution, but there's a tension worth flagging: when you bundle consulting giants like Accenture and BCG as "service partners" right next to indie tools and agents, you're implicitly setting the adoption path. Most companies will default to the big names because procurement already trusts them, which means the interesting smaller builders get buried exactly where they should be getting discovered. App stores have shown this pattern over and over — the marketplace ends up serving the vendors who least need it.
curious whether the smaller consultants and niche tools get any visibility here or if it's just the BCGs and Accentures all the way down
Coool! this is one step closer to making connector use easier for non-technical users. WordPress plugin ecosystem re-invented.
Claude for Business the part I'd look at first from the finance side is the connectors, because a connector is a supplier with access to your data. Most charity finance teams already have a routine for new suppliers: what they'll have access to, where the data is held, and who signed off taking them on. A tool that can read your Slack or your shared drive deserves exactly the same questions, even when it takes one click to switch on. That's no reason to hold back. It just means the approval step needs an owner before the first connector goes in, not after. Who approves a new connector in your organisation: IT, finance, or whoever clicks first?