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Blend achieves Select partner tier in the Claude Partner Network. Oct 06, 2026, 14:33 ET COLUMBIA, Md., Oct. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Blend360, a premier AI services provider, today announced it has achieved the Select partner tier in the Claude Partner Network Services Track. The recognition reflects work already underway with Blend's enterprise clients: moving Claude out of pilots and into the workflows that run the business. The Claude Partner Network is how Anthropic works with the firms that put Claude into production for customers. The Services Track recognizes partners for building a certified delivery team, delivering Claude use cases for clients, and proving the work through public customer references. Partners advance through Certified, Select, Preferred, and Global Premier tiers. Most enterprise AI stalls before it reaches production. Across the financial services, healthcare and life sciences, retail, travel and hospitality, energy, and technology, media, and telecom enterprises Blend works with, the model can usually do the job. What holds teams back is agreeing which workflows are worth building, seeing how a non-deterministic system will actually behave, and knowing who is accountable when a person needs to step in. Blend's Claude practice is built to clear those three barriers. "The question enterprises are asking has changed. It's no longer whether Claude can do the work. It's how to put it into production, govern it at scale, and make it last. That's exactly what our teams are built for. Earning Select tier in the Claude Partner Network reflects that focus. The goal was never one workflow. It's end-to-end agentic transformation of the business areas that matter most, until the whole business runs differently." Ozgur Dogan, Chief Executive Officer, Blend Blend deploys Claude end to end: Claude Code for engineering teams, Claude Cowork for the people who run the business, and agentic solutions built on the Claude API. A senior Forward Deployed Expert works on site or local to each client and owns the outcome, with Applied AI Engineers and Agentic Engineers building alongside them. Governance is agreed before anything is built, from autonomy states and evaluations to named human-in-the-loop checkpoints on the client's own infrastructure. Clients own the solution and the code. Across its own organization, Blend runs Claude Enterprise and Claude Cowork in four regions, so the rollout patterns it brings to clients are ones it already uses itself. Looking ahead, Blend plans to grow its certified Claude delivery team and bring Claude into production for more of its enterprise clients. About Blend360 Blend360 is a premier AI services provider, committed to co-creating meaningful impact for its clients through the power of data science, AI, technology, and people. With a mission to fuel bold visions, Blend tackles significant challenges by seamlessly aligning human expertise with artificial intelligence. The company is dedicated to unlocking value and fostering innovation for its clients by harnessing world-class people and data-driven strategy. We believe that the power of people and AI can have a meaningful impact on your world. Learn more at blend360.com. SOURCE Blend360

Blend named an OpenAI Select Partner. Aug 27, 2026, 08:32 ET Bringing generative AI, data science, and agentic AI expertise to enterprises building on OpenAI's frontier models. COLUMBIA, Md., Aug. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Blend360, a premier AI services provider, today announced that it has been named an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network. The OpenAI Partner Network is a global program for partners to build, sell, and deliver AI solutions with OpenAI. It brings together partners with deep industry expertise, delivery, capabilities, and customer relationships while equipping them with resources, enablement, and support to help enterprises adopt OpenAI frontier models and products and turn them into measurable impact. As an OpenAI Select Partner, Blend will continue working with OpenAI to help organizations build, deploy, and scale AI solutions responsibly and effectively. This work will help organizations get more useful work from every token and stronger performance per dollar with GPT-5.6, while using ChatGPT Work to turn ambitious goals into finished work. "The launch of the OpenAI Partner Network is a meaningful moment for the enterprises we serve. It formalizes the kind of collaboration our clients have already been asking for. We're proud to be part of this network from day one, building on our expertise in data science and agentic AI to help clients move beyond experimentation and use AI to transform their businesses." Ozgur Dogan, Chief Executive Officer, Blend Blend supports organizations across financial services, healthcare and life sciences, retail, energy, and technology, media, and telecom with generative AI, data science, and agentic AI solutions. Its work includes helping enterprise clients operationalize AI agents and decision automation, work recognized by Blend's inclusion on Constellation Research's 2026 AI-First Service Firms list. Looking ahead, Blend plans to expand its OpenAI-related offerings, invest in AI talent and enablement across its global delivery centers, and scale agentic AI deployments for enterprise clients as part of its ongoing work within the OpenAI Partner Network. About Blend360 Blend360 is a premier AI services provider, committed to co-creating meaningful impact for its clients through the power of data science, AI, technology, and people. With a mission to fuel bold visions, Blend tackles significant challenges by seamlessly aligning human expertise with artificial intelligence. The company is dedicated to unlocking value and fostering innovation for its clients by harnessing world-class people and data-driven strategy. We believe that the power of people and AI can have a meaningful impact on your world. For more information, visit www.blend360.com. SOURCE Blend360