Sherpa Labs launches AI benchmarks built around finance deals and production code

Founder Justin Jiang says the benchmarks expose gaps in long-horizon work; the finance test recorded a 3.6% overall pass rate across 3,750 runs.

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Why it matters

Sherpa Labs is selling the infrastructure to train and measure agents on professional workflows, where a plausible answer can still fail when formulas, files or software changes do not tie together. Its early scores illustrate the gap the company hopes labs will pay it to close.

A branching training course with finance, coding, and research cues stands beneath a Sherpa Labs sign.

On October 20th, Justin Jiang (@jostinjiang) introduced Sherpa Labs' finance and coding benchmarks for AI agents, tests built around completing professional work rather than answering isolated questions. Jiang says the company is building reinforcement-learning environments for finance, coding and quantitative research, with the first two benchmarks reporting low pass rates on tasks drawn from private-equity deal work and a production software repository.…

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