Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao revealed during a May 13 podcast appearance that the head of tax is the company’s top internal AI token consumer, outpacing engineers, researchers, and product managers. The finance team operates between 70 and 150 custom Claude skills, which automate workflows including statutory financial statement generation with human review. Weekly revenue and compute utilization reports that previously took hours are now completed in approximately 30 minutes. This heavy adoption by finance professionals is attributed to the complex, document-heavy, and constantly shifting regulatory nature of tax work, where deep domain expertise enables immediate evaluation of AI-generated outputs. Rao also noted that newer, more capable Claude models are expected to drive higher token consumption, directly linking product improvements to revenue growth from existing users.
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