Claude for business, from the subscription to the first steps

Claude is the AI assistant made by Anthropic, an American company. You tell it what you need in your own words. The result can be an answer, an email or a finished file: a Word document, an Excel sheet, a presentation.

You use Claude in the browser, in the app for Windows and Mac, on the phone, and directly inside Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The models, the plans and what each one does are set out in the guide What is Claude.

What it can do in a UK company:

Claude can make mistakes, and Anthropic says so plainly. That is why anything involving money, messages sent in the company's name or important files needs approval. Approval is a person, the colleague who checks Claude's work, confirming before Claude acts.

Claude Pro is the subscription for one person. Claude Team is the subscription for companies, from 2 to 150 users.

On Claude Team you pay for a seat for each member of staff who uses Claude. A seat is one user's licence, and it is either standard or premium. A premium seat has a usage limit five times higher, for the people who work with Claude most.

The usage limit is how much Claude can do for one user within a period. There are two, one over five hours and one over a week, and each resets when its period ends. Anthropic does not state them in messages, because use depends on the length of the documents and of the task.

Anthropic's UK prices are in pounds; we publish them on our Claude pricing page, with the date read.

Claude Pro suits one person trying Claude for themselves. For a company, the subscription is Claude Team.

Claude Enterprise is the subscription for larger companies, from 20 users. You need it only when an auditor or a contract asks for security features Claude Team does not have, an audit log for example.

For your accountant. Anthropic invoices the company account directly. How VAT appears on that invoice depends on your account, so check the first one with your accountant.

On annual billing, each seat is paid for the whole year. You can add seats at any time. You cannot reduce their number before the renewal.

If you do not yet know how many people will use Claude, start on monthly billing. Move to annual billing after the first months.

Claude Team is paid by card only: credit, debit or prepaid. Bank transfer is not accepted.

The company's AI policy is the document that sets the rules plainly. It says what data staff may give Claude and which actions need approval.

The UK has no AI Act. Training is where most of the value comes from, and a written record shows what the company has done.

For Microsoft 365, consent comes from whoever runs the company's Microsoft account, often an outside IT provider.

The agent needs no seats. You pay for usage, the work Claude does. The provider chosen together bills it to your account in US dollars, with a budget set from the start.

The provider can be Anthropic, Amazon Web Services through Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud through Vertex AI, or Microsoft through Microsoft Foundry. By default we run the agent in your own AWS account, on Amazon Bedrock in London. There Claude Opus 5.5 runs in the UK, while Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 are processed within Europe, not always in the UK.

The cost depends on volume, not on the number of staff: at a few thousand emails, orders or requests a month, it comes to tens of pounds. The worked example on our Claude pricing page, at 3,000 conversations a month, comes to a few dollars on Claude Haiku 5.5. On Claude Sonnet 5.5 it is about a hundred.

If your company has no account with the chosen provider, we open one together during the pilot, in your company's name. The agent always runs on your account, with your keys, never on ours.

We work in four steps, each with its own price and a decision at its end. Each step is described in full on the services page. All prices are in GBP and exclude VAT.

The Workshop is credited in full against a pilot signed within 60 days. We offer no other discounts, bundles or day rate. What we built stays with the company if you stop Managed AI Operations.

Already on Claude, or a small team? Claude Team Adoption, from 5,900 GBP, two weeks with one lead, under 250 users: a team that already has Claude Team learns to use it on its own work. Claude Relaunch, from 8,400 GBP, four weeks: you have seats bought and idle, we find out why and put them to work.

Two assistants, as a subscription. An AI customer assistant answers customers on the website, WhatsApp or email; an AI service desk assistant answers colleagues in Microsoft Teams or Zoho Desk. Setup is from 4,200 GBP, then from 420 GBP a month or from 850 GBP a month.

You buy the Claude Team seats directly from Anthropic, and the provider you choose bills the agents' usage to your account. Svennis adds nothing to their prices.

Svennis Cloud Solutions Ltd is registered in England and Wales, with its office in Manchester; the engineering team works in Cluj-Napoca. We are a Zoho Premium Partner, and ten colleagues on our team hold the Claude Certified Architect certification.

Svennis Cloud Solutions is a Select Partner in the Claude Partner Network. The Claude Partner Network is Anthropic's partner programme; what that means for your project is on the partner page. The results of our projects are on the case studies page.

Personal data is any information about an identifiable person: a name, an email, a National Insurance number, a phone number. UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 protect it, and the regulator is the Information Commission (formerly the ICO).

The AI agent on Claude can run in the UK. The agent Svennis builds runs in your own AWS account, on Amazon Bedrock in London, where Claude Opus 5.5 is served in the UK. That is the route we recommend. Claude Team seats for staff have no such option.