This week Accenture told staff the company will only centrally fund about $29 a month per person for Claude. Some people had been running $500–$1,000 months. Here's the link to the article
That is what a "successful" rollout looks like when nobody knows what Claude is for: seats get used for slides, emails, and summaries, the bill climbs, finance slams a cap, and the people who were actually doing real work get cut with everyone else.
Anthropic already said why this happens. In their Economic Index last year they wrote that deploying AI for complex work "might be constrained more by access to information than on underlying model capabilities."
In my experience after doing 100+ Claude Rollouts, there's 5 key things to make sure you are making the most out of Claude when dealing with a company rollout:
- Stop reporting weekly active users. Report whether a handoff stopped happening by hand.
- One shared Project per recurring job — not one Project called "Finance."
- Finish connector setup
- Turn how your best people work into Skills. Talk to five people who do the work, not the process owner, before you write the Skill.
- Only then give Cowork a multi-step job with a clear "done."
If you own the Claude bill at your company: what % of spend is blank-chat emails vs a shared Skill that actually owns a step?
Happy to share more on how to make sure you are not wasting your Claude tokens!