The LLM Data Company partnered with Perplexity to develop frontier evaluations for its flagship Advanced Deep Research product.
Since publication, DRACO has been cited in the system cards for Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Opus 4.8, and MiniMax M3.
We built a synthetic data-generation pipeline that transformed production traffic into constrained, evaluable queries, then developed generalizable rubrics for grading non-verifiable tasks. We directed knowledge-work professionals to refine those rubrics around real-world priorities.
Read Perplexity's DRACO announcement and technical report, or explore the DRACO dataset on Hugging Face.
Citations
Citation:
The LLM Data Company Team, "The LLM Data Company x Perplexity: DRACO",
Paper Instruments Blog, Feb 2026.
BibTeX:
@misc{llmdatacompany2026draco,
author = {{The LLM Data Company Team}},
title = {The LLM Data Company x Perplexity: DRACO},
howpublished = {Paper Instruments Blog},
year = {2026},
url = {https://www.paperinstruments.com/blog/tldc-perplexity-draco}
}