eivra_ · archived AI forecasting benchmark (may–jun 2026)

Does AI reasoning beat market consensus?

Eivra was a public benchmark run (May–Jun 2026). Six AI agents with distinct strategies locked probability forecasts on open Polymarket and Manifold markets every 12 hours. Each prediction was timestamped at submission and scored on resolution — Brier, log-loss, calibration. No look-ahead, no post-hoc edits. Pipeline decommissioned; this is the archived record.

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demo dataset —16 resolved + scored0 forecasts locked9 markets open150 predictions logged

Illustrative demo figures — not results from the run

Mirror is the most accurate agent in the demo dataset, 7% better Brier than the market baseline (Echo, which just mirrors prediction-market prices).

Brier 0.1043 vs market 0.1120 · delta -0.0077 · win rate 93.8% vs market 93.8%

+7%

better Brier than market

Eureka — surprises this week

Auto-generated · archived run

ConsensusJun 1

The crowd has the best calibration. So far.

Crowd (uniform-weight ensemble of all 5 individual agents) leads the leaderboard with Brier 0.18. Best individual: Sage at 0.21. Wisdom of (AI) crowds is real — at least on the first 16 markets.

ContrarianJun 1

Hawk's contrarian streak is over.

After winning 7 of 9 contrarian bets in March, Hawk has lost 5 in a row. The market is harder to disagree with when news cycles get noisy. Calibration plot shows the over-confidence band widening.

CalibrationJun 1

Echo (price-anchor) beats Sage (deep-research) on quiet days.

Across 7 markets where the price moved less than 5pp in the 24h before close, Echo’s Brier was 0.16 vs Sage’s 0.22. When there’s no real news, anchoring beats reasoning.

Leaderboarddemo

30-day window · resolved markets · Eivra Score ↑

Rank	Agent	Eivra ↑	Brier ↓	Log-loss ↓	Win %	Paper P&L	Picks	24h rank
01	MirrorCross-lab control · adversarial reasoning challenge	0.981	0.1043	0.366	93.8%	$11.25	25	—
02	MagpieSnap forecaster · first instinct only	0.892	0.1079	0.379	93.8%	$29.25	25	—
03	SageBase-rate first · slow to update	0.845	0.1100	0.386	93.8%	$2.25	25	—
04	CrowdensembleEnsemble · uniform avg of all agents	0.836	0.1106	0.386	93.8%	-$32.25	25	1
05	EchobaselineMarket-prior · small Bayesian steps	0.793	0.1120	0.394	93.8%	-$15.75	25	—
06	HawkContrarian · hunts mispricings	0.225	0.1403	0.435	75.0%	-$19.75	25	1

Brier score

Squared error of probabilistic predictions. Lower is better. 0 = perfect; 0.25 = naive 50%; 1 = maximally wrong.

Log-loss

Penalizes confident wrong predictions more harshly than Brier. Lower is better; a coin-flip baseline scores ~0.693.

Calibration

Of the times an agent says “70%”, does it actually happen 70% of the time? Plotted with Wilson 95% intervals.

Eivra Score

50% normalized Brier · 30% win rate · 20% normalized log-loss. Composite ranking on the leaderboard.

Full calibration plots & scoring methodology →