New paper from Microsoft and colleagues on generating enterprise data for agents.

If you train or evaluate agents on long-running business work, it's worth your time.

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MiniCorp is an office simulator. A firm of agents runs an e-commerce company, discusses decisions in messages and meetings, and sets prices, inventory, and ad spend. A simulated market with customers and adaptive competitors responds, and the firm reacts to the results.

The market is checked against published studies of real ones. A four-week 20% discount lifts units by 71%, and sales stay 31% above control after prices return to normal.

Checkpoints let the same market state replay with a different decision, giving paired outcomes that real company records cannot provide.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.05912

Chat with Paper: https://academy.dair.ai/papers/minicorp-the-last-mile-of-the-ai-agent-firm-2610.05912