Introducing The Ai Productivity Index For Accounting
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mercor.com
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Mercor research blog
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Why it matters
Running each task eight times shows that even the best model solved only 2.6% of tasks every time, and budget sensitivity varied sharply by model. Reliability, not single-run accuracy, is the gap for agents doing multi-step work.
Terms in this piece · Glossary
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
benchmark — A standard public test set for comparing AI models — the shared scoreboards behind every "model X beats model Y" claim.