# Anthropic enterprise venture Ode buys AI consulting firm Casper Studios

> Anthropic's enterprise venture Ode, a joint effort formed with Blackstone and other Wall Street institutions, has made its first acquisition: Casper Studios, a small AI consultancy whose past clients include Netflix, Pepsi, and private equity funds. Casper brings only about a dozen technical consultants, but the move signals where Anthropic thinks the money is. The logic is that selling a capable model is no longer enough. Large regulated companies want help wiring AI into their actual workflows, with the governance and controls their industries demand, and consultants who can do that hands-on are scarce. Owning a services arm lets Anthropic capture that integration work rather than hand it to outside firms. The scale behind the deal is striking. Anthropic's enterprise revenue run rate reportedly reached around 47 billion dollars by May, up from 9 billion at the end of 2025, with more than a thousand customers spending at least a million a year. Buying a boutique consultancy is a small step, but it points at a bigger ambition to sit inside enterprise operations, not just supply the model.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: The Information · Published Wednesday, August 26, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Anthropic's enterprise venture Ode, a joint effort formed with Blackstone and other Wall Street institutions, has made its first acquisition: Casper Studios, a small AI consultancy whose past clients include Netflix, Pepsi, and private equity funds. Casper brings only about a dozen technical consultants, but the move signals where Anthropic thinks the money is. The logic is that selling a capable model is no longer enough. Large regulated companies want help wiring AI into their actual workflows, with the governance and controls their industries demand, and consultants who can do that hands-on are scarce. Owning a services arm lets Anthropic capture that integration work rather than hand it to outside firms. The scale behind the deal is striking. Anthropic's enterprise revenue run rate reportedly reached around 47 billion dollars by May, up from 9 billion at the end of 2025, with more than a thousand customers spending at least a million a year. Buying a boutique consultancy is a small step, but it points at a bigger ambition to sit inside enterprise operations, not just supply the model.

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