According to Claude (@claudeai), Rakuten has deployed specialist agents across product, sales, marketing, and finance using Managed Agents, with each agent launched in under one week, demonstrating rapid enterprise rollout velocity (as reported by Claude on X). According to Anthropic’s customer case study, Rakuten leveraged Claude-powered Managed Agents to standardize workflows and automate knowledge retrieval, enabling measurable time savings across go-to-market and back-office functions (according to Anthropic at claude.com/customers/rakuten). As reported by Anthropic, the business impact centers on faster experimentation cycles, reduced onboarding for new workflows, and repeatable deployment patterns that scale across departments, positioning agentic AI as a near-term driver of operational efficiency and revenue enablement in large enterprises.