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CRMArena-Pro: Holistic Assessment of LLM Agents Across Diverse Business Scenarios and Interactions

Kung-Hsiang Huang, Akshara Prabhakar, Onkar Thorat, Divyansh Agarwal, Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Yixin Mao, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu

Abstract

While AI agents hold transformative potential in business, effective performance benchmarking is hindered by the scarcity of public, realistic business data on widely used platforms. Existing benchmarks often lack fidelity in their environments, data, and agent-user interactions, with limited coverage of diverse business scenarios and industries. To address these gaps, we introduce CRMArena-Pro, a novel benchmark for holistic, realistic assessment of LLM agents in diverse professional settings. CRMArena-Pro expands on CRMArena with nineteen expert-validated tasks across sales, service, and 'configure, price, and quote' processes, for both Business-to-Business and Business-to-Customer scenarios. It distinctively incorporates multi-turn interactions guided by diverse personas and robust confidentiality awareness assessments. Experiments reveal leading LLM agents achieve only around 58% single-turn success on CRMArena-Pro, with performance dropping significantly to approximately 35% in multi-turn settings. While Workflow Execution proves more tractable for top agents (over 83% single-turn success), other evaluated business skills present greater challenges. Furthermore, agents exhibit near-zero inherent confidentiality awareness; though targeted prompting can improve this, it often compromises task performance. These findings highlight a substantial gap between current LLM capabilities and enterprise demands, underscoring the need for advancements in multi-turn reasoning, confidentiality adherence, and versatile skill acquisition.

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    • That was this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18878 Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44289554

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    • Paper: CRMArena-Pro: Holistic Assessment of LLM Agents Across Diverse Business Scenarios and Interactions - https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18878 | https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.18878

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    • Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18878 Code: https://github.com/SalesforceAIResearch/CRMArena Data: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Salesforce/CRMArenaPro (8,614 rows) Here's one of those JSON files loaded in Datasette Lite (15MB page load)…

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