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CEO-Bench

General AICoding & Software EngineeringPrinceton University

CEO-Bench evaluates long-horizon agent capabilities by simulating a startup over 500 days. Agents manage pricing, marketing, budgeting, and other business aspects through a programmable Python interface, facing noisy data and changing market conditions. Performance is measured by final company balance against a rule-based baseline.

Released
2026-06-16
Readiness
Runnable
Primary field
General AI

Why it matters

CEO-Bench addresses the evaluation gap for agents that must sustain adaptive progress over long horizons, combining uncertainty, information acquisition, and multi-step coordination. It provides a decision-useful benchmark for comparing models on realistic, dynamic business management tasks.

Motivation

Language model agents are becoming proficient executors at isolated, short-horizon tasks such as software engineering and customer service.

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