Research Summary · 2026-07-16

Claude Features → Services

What Anthropic shipped, and what EdgePointe sells because of it
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Claude Features
→ EdgePointe Services

Report of July 16, 2026 · the feature-to-service map
The model wave
Opus 4.8 May 28 Fable 5 / Mythos 5 new frontier tier Jun 9 Sonnet 5 · $2/$10 Jun 30 · intro pricing ends Aug 31
The margin story: Sonnet-5-class capability at commodity pricing — benchmark before August 31.
Every feature maps to a line
ANTHROPIC SHIPS models · agents · MCP · plugins Vantage — receptionist · Reach · WebDesigner · blog engine Client services — content · SEO · migrations · integrations Managed IT — support · monitoring · delivery cost New offerings — things we don't sell yet
The headline plays
Managed Agents
Blog-writer + research reports as scheduled cloud agents — no scheduler infrastructure, sold into Growth Plus/Concierge.
AI Workspace
Claude Team + M365 + Cowork deployed, governed, and trained — a new Managed IT recurring line.
Private plugin marketplace
Version the EdgePointe skills; uniform quality across the team; a sellable artifact.
Vantage MCP server
Bookings, leads, reviews, content as tools — every client site AI-operable. No template competitor has it.
The flags — where the money moves

Watch three things

Sonnet 5 intro pricing ends Aug 31 — margins deprecations in our stack — Workers AI · realtime · wrangler competitor platform moves
A pricing change we miss is margin we gave away. A deprecation we miss is an outage we scheduled.
Top five — act now
1
Ship blog-writer + research reports on Managed Agents — closes two roadmap gaps
2
Benchmark Sonnet 5 for all Vantage runtime AI — before Aug 31
3
Launch the AI Workspace Managed-IT offering
4
Package the skills as a private plugin marketplace
5
Prototype the Vantage MCP server — durable differentiator

They ship the feature.
We ship the service.

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