Playknot, Inc. (Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Takuma Motoyashiki, Kyoki Yamaguchi; hereinafter "Playknot") announces its certification in the 'Claude Partner Network,' launched by Anthropic. The Claude Partner Network is a partner program designed to support enterprises in adopting and utilizing Claude. This program supports the establishment of frameworks enabling companies to safely and practically integrate Claude into their operations by providing certification, training, and technical assistance to organizations that help implement and leverage Claude. With this certification, Playknot will further strengthen its ability to provide end-to-end support—from business process design and AI agent development to internal rollout and operational stabilization—using Claude and Claude Code. In recent years, generative AI applications have expanded beyond simple 'text generation' and 'chat-based consultation' to include AI agents that actively advance real-world business processes such as research, planning, content creation, proposals, sales, and reporting. However, many companies face challenges such as 'tools being procured but not used in practice,' 'prompt engineering becoming siloed within individuals,' and 'lack of established security and quality standards.' Playknot has supported tailored AI adoption for businesses by combining expertise from marketers with advertising agency backgrounds and AI engineers, integrating practical marketing experience with AI agent implementation. With this certification, Playknot will now aggressively expand its support for deploying marketing-focused AI agents using Claude. ■ Background Recent AI adoption announcements both in Japan and abroad emphasize not just the introduction of generative AI tools, but the integration of AI into business workflows to deliver tangible results. In particular, marketing operations—such as market and competitor research, customer insights, campaign planning, ad and landing page (LP) creati