Ode with Anthropic, an enterprise AI transformation company established by Anthropic alongside private equity and growth investors, has acquired AI services consultancy Casper Studios. The transaction combines Ode's custom AI systems engineering with Casper's practice of embedding Anthropic's Claude models into corporate software environments.
Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Strategic Focus and Investor Backing
Ode was formally established in 2026 through a joint initiative between Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman. The venture is backed by an investment consortium that includes Apollo Global Management, General Atlantic, GIC, Goldman Sachs, Leonard Green & Partners, and Sequoia Capital.
Led by CEO Chris Taylor, Ode operates as an enterprise deployment arm for Anthropic's frontier AI models. While Anthropic focuses on core foundation model research and API infrastructure, Ode engineers tailored enterprise architectures for large organizations transitioning from exploratory generative AI pilots to production deployments.
Casper Studios, co-founded and led by CEO Jay Singh, specializes in operationalizing Claude within existing corporate tools. The consultancy develops custom skills, API connectors, and contextual retrieval layers that allow teams in customer support, operations, and project management to automate multi-step tasks.
Shared Deployments and Shared Toolchains
The acquisition follows prior collaborative client engagements between the two companies. In a shared deployment for Sphera, an operational intelligence and risk management platform, Ode engineered a custom internal system that reduced operational bottlenecks in time-intensive processes by 70%.
Concurrently, Casper Studios automated operational workflows across Sphera's support, consulting, and planning departments. Because both teams built their integrations on top of a shared Claude Code architecture, tooling developed by Ode's engineering team was immediately usable by Casper's implementation specialists.
Rodney Zemmel, an Ode board member and Global Head of the Blackstone Operating Team, noted that enterprise clients require a unified partner capable of handling both heavy custom engineering builds and broad internal workflow automation. The acquisition consolidates these capabilities under a single operational structure.
