Can AI Replace the C-Suite?
CEO Bench is an open benchmark measuring how well large language models tackle executive decision making, strategic planning and leadership challenges.
Current Leaderboard
Rankings based on comprehensive evaluation across strategic thinking, operational excellence, leadership capabilities, and financial acumen.
| Rank | Model | Overall | Strategy | Management | Communication | Finance | Risk & Ethics | Innovation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
#1 | Open AI o4 Mini | 130.3 | 131.6 | 129.0 | 128.7 | 130.5 | 130.4 | 129.8 |
#2 | Open AI GPT-4.1 | 124.0 | 123.5 | 121.7 | 127.4 | 122.9 | 125.1 | 124.0 |
#3 | Open AI GPT-4.1 Mini | 121.5 | 122.2 | 120.1 | 119.9 | 120.3 | 122.8 | 122.6 |
#4 | Llama 3.1 8B | 120.5 | 119.3 | 120.1 | 123.3 | 120.1 | 121.6 | 120.2 |
#5 | Gemma 2 9B | 117.9 | 118.7 | 113.9 | 117.7 | 118.5 | 120.5 | 117.2 |
#6 | Open AI GPT-4.1 Nano | 116.0 | 114.2 | 118.0 | 115.8 | 117.9 | 115.5 | 117.3 |
Evaluation Methodology
Our benchmark evaluates LLMs across four critical executive competencies
Long-term planning, market analysis, competitive positioning, and vision setting capabilities.
- • Market entry strategies
- • Competitive analysis
- • Long-term planning
- • Vision articulation
Process optimization, resource allocation, performance management, and operational efficiency.
- • Resource optimization
- • Process improvement
- • Performance metrics
- • Efficiency analysis
Team management, stakeholder communication, crisis management, and organizational culture.
- • Team motivation
- • Stakeholder management
- • Crisis communication
- • Culture building
Financial analysis, budgeting, investment decisions, and risk assessment capabilities.
- • Financial modeling
- • Investment analysis
- • Risk assessment
- • Budget planning
About CEO Bench
CEO Bench is an open research benchmark for evaluating large language models on executive leadership tasks. It generates realistic management questions, collects model answers and scores them automatically to build the leaderboard below.
For months, CEOs have been asking "Can I replace all my workers with AI?"Thanks to CEO Bench we can now turn the question around: AI can replace the CEO.
The next challenge is figuring out just how small a model can still run the company as frontier LLMs saturate the benchmark.
The Python scripts powering this site are included in the repository so you can run your own evaluations or extend the question set. All data and code are released under the MIT License and contributions are welcome.