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DAYJOB: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Professional Work
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Professional work often starts with a brief request that leaves the professional to work out what is needed, which documents matter, and whether the request's premise holds. We introduce DAYJOB, a benchmark of 130 tasks built by professionals in healthcare (50) and finance (80). The tasks are estimated to take a professional 13.6 hours on average in healthcare and 16.6 in finance. Each task is a containerized Harbor environment with an expert rubric of binary criteria (median 47.5 and 57.5 per task) that an agentic judge applies to the delivered…
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