{
  "id": "anthropic-sitemap:research:project-vend-1",
  "type": "article",
  "title": "Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)",
  "abstract": "_We let Claude manage an automated store in our office as a small business for about a month. We learned a lot from how close it was to success—and the curious ways that it failed—about the plausible, strange, not-too-distant future in which AI models are autonomously running things in the real economy._",
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2025,
        6,
        27
      ]
    ]
  },
  "URL": "https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1",
  "publisher": "Anthropic",
  "source": "vendor/anthropic-sitemap/research/project-vend-1.md"
}
