When Generic Benchmarks Fail: Building a Sales-Domain Evaluation Bench from Scratch

By Natnael Alemseged The gap that τ²-Bench retail cannot measure Tenacious is a B2B sales automation company. Its agent produces outreach emails for clients — personalized to the prospect's company, calibrated to the signal confidence of the underlying data, and constrained by the actual bench capacity available to fulfill any commitment made in the email. The executive team's question going into Week 11 was simple: how do we know this works for our business, our voice, our segments, our bench?