Mike Wilner

Out of the box, long-horizon agents struggle to accurately perform end to end work in the real economy (outside of coding) because those tasks are not easily verifiable, the data is hard to scale, and going from inputs to real outcomes can actually take many days. Even if you had a reliable way to verify outcomes at scale (and weren’t bothered by the multi-hour iteration loops), the sheer volume of decisions by the agent that occur in a multi-hour job makes it hard to know whether performing well will generalize to production. Over the last two years at @trybasis, we've been solving this problem by supervising the process our agents take to get to outcomes, rather than just looking at whether the outcome itself is correct. We think this is the key to building production agents at scale. It's what has allowed us to run agents in production that operate for hours, sometimes days, and reliably perform tasks like entire complex tax returns end to end. Today, alongside @braintrust, we're open sourcing a standard for defining, evaluating, and eventually rewarding agent behaviors. Thread below with all the details on how we’re scaling behaviors to close the loop for long-horizon agents.

Excited to share our "Ode to Accounting" short film. It's a tribute to the profession, tracing accounting's 10,000-year arc from clay tokens to double-entry to AI agents. Accounting's next chapter is being written now, by the people doing the work. It's their era to shape.

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Excited to announce this milestone. We are deploying long-horizon agents at scale that can do real work in the real economy. Our agents can already operate reliably for hours at a time and I expect that to be days by the end of the year. We can barely keep up with demand. If you want to come join and work at the frontier for the most intense, fast-paced couple years of your life, send me a note.

They said it couldn't be done. They said it *shouldn't* be done. We tried anyways. Today we're launching Ash, the first AI designed for therapy, and announcing $93M in funding from @radicalventures @ForerunnerVC @a16z @felicis @trailmixvc @joinsequel and many more. We've had 50k people using it, with pretty transformative results. Here's my co-founder @danielreidcahn telling our story. Link to Ash below.