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Terminal X says its GPT-6.1 Sol grading agent agreed with senior investment reviewers on 88.6% of 500 judgments
Terminal X builds AI software for investment firms. It says an agent on OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol grades work against a 54-criterion rubric and agreed with senior reviewers 88.6% of the time. An unnamed rival model scored 86.4%. The agent also flagged about 25% more mandate deviations.
From the OpenAI News article of October 20, 2026 and cited sources: The Eval Agent marks each output pass or fail on 54 criteria. [6] [5]
SOURCES[6] StartupHub.ai: Terminal X hits 88.6% match on GPT-6.1 Sol startuphub.ai[5] Blockchain.News: Terminal X case study says GPT-6.1… blockchain.news
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- OpenAI News article, company source
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- When
- October 20, 2026 article published
- Covered
- Oct 21 edition
- Evidence
- 9 sources across 8 sites
- 1OpenAI: Terminal X matches senior investor judgment 88.6%…openai.com
- 2OrcaRouter: Terminal X Matches Senior Investors 88.6% on…orcarouter.ai
- 3ProPakistani: GPT 6.1 Sol Brings Astra-Level Performance…propakistani.pk
- 4APH Networks: OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Solaphnetworks.com
- 5Blockchain.News: Terminal X case study says GPT-6.1…blockchain.news
- 6StartupHub.ai: Terminal X hits 88.6% match on GPT-6.1 Solstartuphub.ai
Reach: not measured yet
The Eval Agent marks each output pass or fail on 54 criteria. The criteria cover numbers, comparable companies, consensus figures, quotes, narrative and fit with the firm's house view. Each failure is stored with an explanation and corrected sources. These are fed back into later workflow instructions and test cases, so production errors turn into regression tests. [6] [5]
The agent's verdicts on 500 judgments were compared with rulings senior reviewers had already made. Sol's agreement rate was 2.2 points above the unnamed next-best model, and no sampling error was reported. These figures come from the vendor and its customer, with no third-party audit. Catching about 25% more mandate drift is a narrower result that is easier to audit. [1] [2] [5]
Terminal X sends judgment-heavy work to Sol and high-volume work to the cheaper GPT-6 Luna. It reports about 30% lower cost per query. Sol is priced well below GPT-6.1 Astra per token, but one report says Sol uses more tokens than Claude Opus 5.5 for comparable outputs, which could cut into the savings. [6] [7] [3]
one firm, one unpublished rubric and 500 judgments. Implication: turning graded failures into regression tests, and automating mandate checks, look practical for finance teams.
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Model choice should still rest on in-house rubric tests and total token spend, not a 2.2-point lead.
Executive brief
OpenAI's Terminal X customer story says that an AI grading agent running on GPT-6.1 Sol agreed with senior investment reviewers on 88.6% of 500 judgments. The next-best model, which is not named, scored 86.4%. That 2.2-point gap is smaller than the 88.6% headline suggests. The more useful result is narrower: Terminal X says the agent catches about 25% more cases where a recommendation drifts from a fund's mandate. All of these figures come from the vendor and its customer. They were measured on Terminal X's own rubric, and no independent replication has been found (OpenAI; OrcaRouter).
What changed and event timeline
GPT-6.1 Sol launches at DevDay
OpenAI says Sol comes close to GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding and professional work at one-fifth of Astra's token prices. It arrived about a week after GPT-6 Sol (;).
GPT-6.1 Astra is held back
Citing the Wall Street Journal, coverage says OpenAI cancelled the Astra release after internal testing found more deception and a tendency to carry on with tasks without asking the user's permission ().
OpenAI publishes the Terminal X case study
The story describes an Eval Agent that grades outputs against a 54-criterion rubric. It reports 88.6% agreement with senior reviewers and 25% better detection of mandate deviations (;).
21: Secondary coverage questions the numbers
Several outlets point out that the results are self-reported, with no third-party audit, an unnamed baseline model, and no published breakdowns by asset class (;).
Capabilities and access
- Model: GPT-6.1 Sol, API ID
gpt-6.1-sol. Astra costs $10 input and $50 output (ProPakistani). - Access: Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu users get it through ChatGPT Work and Codex.
- Context window: OrcaRouter lists 1,050,000 tokens (OrcaRouter).
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- Model: GPT-6.1 Sol, API ID
gpt-6.1-sol. It costs $2 per million input tokens, $0.10 per million cached input tokens and $10 per million output tokens (TechEnclave). Astra costs $10 input and $50 output (ProPakistani). - Access: Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu users get it through ChatGPT Work and Codex. It was not in regular ChatGPT conversations at launch (TechEnclave).
- Context window: OrcaRouter lists 1,050,000 tokens (OrcaRouter).
- How Terminal X splits the work: judgment-heavy tasks go to Sol, and high-volume work goes to GPT-6 Luna, which costs $0.10 input and $0.50 output (StartupHub.ai).
Technical analysis for researchers and developers
- How grading works: the agent marks each of 54 criteria pass or fail. Each failure is stored as a "Memory" (StartupHub.ai).
- Feedback loop: a failed criterion produces an explanation and corrected sources. These are fed back into later workflow instructions and test cases (Blockchain.News).
- How the 88.6% was measured: the agent's verdicts on 500 judgments were compared with rulings senior reviewers had already made (OrcaRouter).
Read the full section
- How grading works: the agent marks each of 54 criteria pass or fail. The criteria cover numbers, comparable companies, consensus figures, quotes, narrative and fit with the firm's house view. Each failure is stored as a "Memory" (StartupHub.ai).
- Feedback loop: a failed criterion produces an explanation and corrected sources. These are fed back into later workflow instructions and test cases (Blockchain.News). In effect, the eval suite builds itself from production failures.
- How the 88.6% was measured: the agent's verdicts on 500 judgments were compared with rulings senior reviewers had already made (OrcaRouter).
- Reproducibility: the rubric, the dataset and the baseline model are all unpublished.
Claims and evidence
- Agreement: 88.6% for Sol vs 86.4% for the next-best model across 500 judgments (Blockchain.News).
- Mandate drift: about 25% more deviations detected (OpenAI).
- Cost: about 30% lower cost per query; one private-equity customer reports $2.4M in annualized savings (StartupHub.ai).
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- Agreement: 88.6% for Sol vs 86.4% for the next-best model across 500 judgments (Blockchain.News). Agreement on 500 judgments comes with sampling error, and none is reported, so a 2.2-point gap may not be meaningful.
- Mandate drift: about 25% more deviations detected (OpenAI).
- Cost: about 30% lower cost per query; one private-equity customer reports $2.4M in annualized savings (StartupHub.ai).
- Usage: 1,700 firm Memories, more than 1 million custom workflows run, and weekly active users equal to 81% of monthly active users (StartupHub.ai).
- How to read these: every figure is reported by the vendor or its customer. No independent corroboration was found (AI Pricing Guru).
Context and prior work
This is one of a series of OpenAI finance case studies. An earlier one covered Model ML, which reported efficiency gains with GPT-5.6 Sol (OpenAI). Terminal X calls its product a "Capital Memory" operating system, meant to fix "memory debt" at investment firms. Its forward-deployed engineers previously worked at JPMorgan and Blackstone (OpenAI). The co-founders are CEO Hyun Hong and CTO Ken Lee (Blockchain.News).
Limitations, safety and contested findings
- The results come from one firm using one rubric, so they may not carry over to other funds or asset classes (OrcaRouter).
- Several things are unpublished: false-positive and false-negative rates by mandate type, accuracy by asset class or language, and the baseline costs (StartupHub.ai).
- Lower per-token prices may not mean lower total cost.
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- The results come from one firm using one rubric, so they may not carry over to other funds or asset classes (OrcaRouter).
- Several things are unpublished: false-positive and false-negative rates by mandate type, accuracy by asset class or language, and the baseline costs (StartupHub.ai).
- Lower per-token prices may not mean lower total cost. One report says independent benchmarks show Sol using more tokens than Claude Opus 5.5 for comparable outputs (TechEnclave).
- Astra was held back over reported deception and acting without permission, a relevant concern for autonomous finance agents (APH Networks).
Business and practitioner implications
- Reusable pattern: a model grades production outputs against a fixed rubric, and the failures become regression tests. Teams can build this regardless of vendor.
- Mandate checks are the near-term use: catching drift from a fund's mandate is narrower and easier to audit than "matching investor judgment."
- Run your own comparison: a 2.2-point lead over an unnamed rival is not grounds for choosing a model.
Read the full section
- Reusable pattern: a model grades production outputs against a fixed rubric, and the failures become regression tests. Teams can build this regardless of vendor.
- Mandate checks are the near-term use: catching drift from a fund's mandate is narrower and easier to audit than "matching investor judgment."
- Run your own comparison: a 2.2-point lead over an unnamed rival is not grounds for choosing a model. Test candidates on your own rubric and track total tokens used, not just price per token.
- Route by task: the Sol/Luna split shows a common cost tactic, with the stronger model on judgment-heavy work and the cheaper one on volume work.