DAYJOB: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Professional Work
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 files, and an attempt passes only if it meets every criterion. Across 30 model configurations from 13 developers, the strongest, Claude Opus 5.5,...
| Authors | Stephanie Finley, Liudas Panavas, Thomas Mikkelson et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 1 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 1 October 2026 |
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