Tunisia: iones accepted into Anthropic’s startup programme for a year

It’s official: iones, a Tunisian digital services company based in Tunis, has been accepted into Anthropic’s startup programme, Claude Startups, for one year! Great news for the whole team, and a year to explore new horizons with AI, test the latest technologies and advances, and above all keep improving our services.

Rolling out AI at iones is already well under way, and our clients are benefiting from it. This article sets out what this year will allow us to do, for the companies that entrust us with their artificial intelligence projects, their web development or their application maintenance.

What is the Claude Startups programme?

Claude Startups is the startup programme of Anthropic, the company that develops the Claude AI models. It is aimed at companies building with Claude and lasts one year. iones, based in Tunis, has been accepted for the whole year, and we are very proud of it.

Where does AI stand at iones?

AI does not arrive with this programme. Today, by our estimate, 60% of iones’s workflows and processes are managed by AI, with human approval on everything that leaves the company or commits it. The iones lab report Skills & MCP shows part of it: eight weeks of a catalogue of AI tools shared by eight developers, with Claude Code among the coding assistants.

What will we do with this year?

Here are our four workstreams for the year.

iones lab: test before we offer

iones lab publishes what the team has actually tested, measured and concluded, before offering it to a client. With the programme, we will test new models and new tools more, and earlier, and publish every report with its real figures. Among the subjects we are preparing:

• Claude’s new models and new features, on our own projects;
• ways of tooling a development team (shared skills, MCP servers, assisted code review), on real tasks;
• AI in functional testing and compliance checks of our deliveries;
• the effect of AI on our deliveries, measured project by project.

The iones agents: our internal AI assistants

The iones agents are our internal AI assistants. They are built into all of our workflows: development, project management, marketing, sales, prospecting, continuous improvement and cybersecurity. What leaves iones or commits it is still approved by a human. During the year, we will help them progress and measure what they bring, in an iones lab report.

Our AI production chain

Our AI production chain has nine steps, from AI-assisted development to client approval, with automated tests and a human test. This year, we will bring into it, step by step, what has proven itself in iones lab, without removing any check.

CeliFlow: project tracking connected to AI

CeliFlow is the project tracking tool on which we run our developments: one card per need, which the client follows in real time. We will connect AI to it, so that the client reads on the same card, even more clearly, what has been done, tested and approved.

What does it change for our clients?

Our goal is simple: improve our lead times and our quality. Every new method first goes through our own projects and iones lab, then reaches our clients with the same checks. The iones team works as a nearshore provider from Tunisia for French and European companies.

Frequently asked questions

What comes next, in iones lab

This year’s results will be published in iones lab, test by test. Are you preparing an AI project, or an application to build with AI, and want to benefit too? Write to us.