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. (bookmark it) 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: Chat with Paper: