Anthropic’s Project Deal: Claude AI Agents Close 186 Deals and Reveal Market Asymmetries
When Anthropic turned its San Francisco office into a live, classified marketplace in December 2025, it wasn’t testing a new website so much as an idea: could autonomous Claude AI agents not only list items but negotiate and close real, multi-turn deals with zero human intervention? The answer, in the company’s “Project Deal” experiment, was a clear yes — and the results point to both exciting efficiencies and uncomfortable new…