Anthropic

Anthropic Just Ran a Real-Money Agent-to-Agent Marketplace

Anthropic gave 69 employees $100 each, put them in a Slack-based marketplace, and let Claude agents negotiate transactions on their behalf. The agents closed 186 deals worth more than $4,000. That is the first published, real-money result for buyer-agent and seller-agent negotiation, and it points at a layer of agentic commerce most brands have not started preparing for. TL;DR: Project Deal is the first controlled experiment showing buyer-side AI agents negotiating directly with seller-