+ Expand PolicyBench to your region, population, or program +
+ ++ Families already ask AI about the questions that decide their month: + Do I qualify for SNAP? How much is my credit? Will this job cost me + Medicaid? The{" "} + + public board + {" "} + tests 30 frontier models on 100 real households. + The best model computes 88.7% of amounts within $1. On SNAP cases + where the family is owed benefits, models answer exactly $0 in 42% of + answers, and no model gets more than 1 case in 20 right. + On Medicaid eligibility, the median model misclassifies 1 person in + 15; the weakest, nearly 1 in 3. A family + told “$0” does not apply. Those are national numbers — + nobody measures this for your region. +
+ ++ A PolicyBench slice measures it. We draw households from + survey microdata weighted to your population, cover your programs, + benchmark the models behind the tools your people use, and compute every + reference from the law with PolicyEngine. Every miss gets a + diagnosed failure mode. You get a public slice leaderboard, a + written analysis of where models fail your population, and a + briefing. The answer key checks itself in public: references come + from open-source code, cross-checked against other calculators + where they exist, and challenged values get adjudicated against + the statute — the{" "} + + methodology and adjudication record + {" "} + are published. +
+ ++ We size samples to the confidence width your question needs, from + your population — not a fixed household count. Any slice can add + standing coverage: quarterly refresh and re-analysis, new models as + they ship, and technical assistance to grantees building AI tools — + priced with the slice. +
+ ++ Funders buy coverage: households, programs, regions, refresh + cadence. Funding never buys scores, rankings, or placement. No + model vendor pays for evaluation — vendor funding for separate + projects never touches the benchmark. Every slice stays public — + prompts, references, predictions, and diagnoses. +
++ PolicyBench is a project of PolicyEngine, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit — + engagements work as grants or contracts. We also brief funder + networks — one slice presented to a convened + room goes further than a dozen pitches, and we are glad to present + at yours. +
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