Ode with Anthropic bets a handful of forward-deployed engineers can replace consulting armies

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TechCrunch went inside Ode with Anthropic, a joint venture embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises on the thesis that a handful of engineers with Claude can do the work of an army of consultants. It is Anthropic's most direct move into the services layer — the margin structure Accenture and Deloitte depend on — and a live test of whether AI-assisted delivery actually collapses headcount on real engagements.