Claude for professional services, finance and property
Accountants, lawyers, consultants, property managers and IT firms sell expertise that ends up in documents.
- Share of NZ employees
- 19%about 451,000 people, Feb 2025
- Highest local share
- 28%Lincoln, Canterbury
- Highest region
- 24%Auckland, 208,000 employees
Where we start
Accountants, lawyers, consultants, property managers and IT firms sell expertise that ends up in documents. This is Claude’s strongest ground.
First drafts of advice and reports
Use a Project holding your templates, precedents and style so the draft already looks like your firm’s work.
Reviewing long documents
Summarise, compare versions and extract obligations from contracts, leases and reports, citing the clause every time.
Connected workflows
For IT and technical teams, MCP connects Claude to practice management, ticketing or document systems under your own access rules.
Take care: Professional obligations, such as privilege, confidentiality and client consent, apply to what you paste in. Set the rules before you roll out.
Where the jobs are
Professional services, finance and property accounts for 19% of paid employees in New Zealand. These are the towns and regions where its share is highest. Towns need at least 400 employees to be ranked.
Towns with the highest share of jobs in professional services
| Town | Chart | Share | NZ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln | 28.4% | 18.5% | |
| Wellington | 28.0% | 18.5% | |
| Edgecumbe | 26.9% | 18.5% | |
| Katikati | 26.8% | 18.5% | |
| Arrowtown | 25.9% | 18.5% | |
| Auckland | 25.1% | 18.5% | |
| Lyttelton | 24.4% | 18.5% | |
| Te Puke | 24.1% | 18.5% | |
| Alexandra | 23.4% | 18.5% | |
| Kumeū-Huapai | 22.1% | 18.5% |
Share of paid employees at business locations in the town. The tick marks the national share.
Source: Stats NZ, Business Demography Statistics, February 2020 and 2025.
By region
| Region | Chart | Share | NZ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auckland | 24.2% | 18.5% | |
| Wellington | 21.9% | 18.5% | |
| Canterbury | 17.4% | 18.5% | |
| Nelson | 15.5% | 18.5% | |
| Bay of Plenty | 15.0% | 18.5% | |
| Waikato | 14.0% | 18.5% | |
| Hawke's Bay | 14.0% | 18.5% | |
| Otago | 13.5% | 18.5% | |
| Taranaki | 12.3% | 18.5% | |
| Tasman | 11.3% | 18.5% | |
| Gisborne | 11.1% | 18.5% | |
| Marlborough | 10.6% | 18.5% | |
| Manawatū-Whanganui | 9.8% | 18.5% | |
| Northland | 9.8% | 18.5% | |
| Southland | 8.8% | 18.5% | |
| West Coast | 7.8% | 18.5% |
Source: Stats NZ, Business Demography Statistics, February 2020 and 2025.
Courses
1Introductory
Claude foundations workshop
A hands-on start for everyone on the team: good prompts, Projects, files and artifacts, using your own work as the examples.
2Organisation
Claude team rollout
Moving from a few enthusiasts to a whole team: plan choice, Projects structure, usage guidelines, connectors and champions.
3Advanced
Claude Code and MCP for developers
For developers and technical teams: agentic coding with Claude Code, project memory, building MCP servers and the Claude API.
Other industries
Questions
Is Claude safe to use in professional services?
With the right plan and rules, yes for most tasks. Professional obligations, such as privilege, confidentiality and client consent, apply to what you paste in. Set the rules before you roll out.
Can training use our own professional services examples?
Yes. We ask for a few real, non-sensitive examples beforehand, or anonymised versions, and build the exercises around them.
Train your professional services team
- You tell us about the teamSize, where you are, the documents people work with, and what you would like to change.
- We suggest a course and formatBy email, with a few questions about the tasks and documents you want to train on.
- People practise on real workOn-site or remote. Everyone leaves with Claude set up for tasks they do every week.
- In person
- Remote
- Half-day workshop
- Full-day workshop
- Team rollout
Independent training by TheColab. Not affiliated with Anthropic.
Enquire
Tell us about your team. We reply by email with a suggested course and format.