The same week Anthropic was declared a threat to national security, it opened a shop. This episode is about the Claude Marketplace — what it is, why Anthropic isn't taking a commission, and what the six launch partners reveal about the company's long-term bet on enterprise.

**In this episode:**

- What the Claude Marketplace actually is and how the billing model works

- Why the AWS/Azure comparison is instructive but incomplete

- The six launch partners — Harvey, Rogo, Snowflake, GitLab, Replit, Lovable — and what they have in common

- The no-commission decision and what Anthropic is actually buying with it

- The strategic bet: not one government contract, but hundreds of enterprise relationships compounding quietly over time

**Links:**

- Claude Marketplace (Anthropic): https://claude.com/platform/marketplace

- VentureBeat on the Marketplace launch: https://venturebeat.com/technology/anthropic-launches-claude-marketplace-giving-enterprises-access-to-claude

- The Next Web on the enterprise strategy: https://thenextweb.com/news/anthropic-marketplace-claude-enterprise-software

- InfoWorld on switching costs and lock-in: https://www.infoworld.com/article/4142340/anthropic-debuts-claude-marketplace-to-target-ai-procurement-bottlenecks

**Referenced in this episode:**

- EP032: Thinking Inside the Box — Anthropic's acquisition pattern and the computer-use strategy

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