Dun & Bradstreet Partners With Anthropic to Automate Business Onboarding

Dun & Bradstreet will collaborate with AI startup Anthropic to embed its proprietary commercial risk data directly into the Claude AI platform, according to a Tuesday (May 5) press release. The integration is designed to accelerate corporate onboarding and compliance tasks for firms operating in highly regulated sectors, such as banking and FinTech, per the release.

By connecting Dun & Bradstreet’s “Commercial Graph,” a massive database of business entities, to Claude via a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, clients can build customized know your customer (KYC) and know your business (KYB) workflows in a matter of minutes, according to the release. The partnership aims to provide the specific governance and domain expertise required for regulated industries to automate processes.

Alex Zuck, general manager of risk at Dun & Bradstreet, characterized the integration as a move beyond simple data access. The system provides the AI with “verified context and decision logic,” Zuck said in the announcement, ensuring outputs are explainable, auditable and consistent. These features are considered essential for organizations to act in high-stakes environments where manual oversight has traditionally been the norm.

The collaboration represents a shift toward “agentic systems” capable of replacing siloed tools and manual case management with a single, automated workflow, according to the release. For example, a financial institution using the integrated system could potentially onboard a new corporate client in seconds by automatically verifying ownership structures, assessing risk profiles and generating audit-ready documentation.

A key component of the integration is the use of the D-U-N-S Number, a global business identifier that provides a persistent and verified view of corporate identity. This identifier allows Claude to reason more accurately about business ownership and control while maintaining safety and accountability, per the release.

The companies positioned the move as an evolution in enterprise knowledge work, moving toward AI systems that do not merely summarize information but operate within a framework of verified enterprise context and risk logic. Through the MCP-based integration, users gain secure access to the Commercial Graph to streamline business verification layers without compromising institutional trust.

Earlier in May, Anthropic partnered with FIS on AI bots for AML investigations, and in April, it partnered with Amazon to add new AI functionalities to Amazon Web Services (AWS).