On Aug 26, 2026 Salesforce and Anthropic announced Claudeforce, making Claude a default reasoning model across Agentforce, Slack and developer tools. It ships with a 'Salesforce in Claude' plugin covering the full revenue cycle and 37 prebuilt sales skills such as meeting prep, deal-health review and pipeline review.
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Salesforce and Anthropic launch Claudeforce, embedding Claude across the CRM
Why this matters for founders
If you run on Salesforce or sell into Salesforce shops, evaluate the Claude plugin and the 37 sales skills to automate CRM-driven prospecting and deal work before the September open beta widens.
Source: Salesforce Newsroom
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