Prepare forms or applications
Most of the output can be produced by software today.
This is the most automatable shape of work there is, and also the shape that most needs a live connection to the system the record lives in. Without that connection an agent can prepare the entry but cannot file it.
| How automatable | Mostly automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Recording, documentation and administration |
| Jobs that do it | 8 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Tools and auth, Builders |
| O*NET activity | Documenting/Recording Information (4.A.3.b.6) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 8 occupations that perform it.
- Prepare environmental permit applications or compliance reports.
- Prepare and process requisitions and purchase orders for supplies and equipment.
- Prepare contracts or negotiate revisions to contractual agreements with architects, consultants, clients, suppliers, or subcontractors.
- Review and approve new programs, or recommend modifications to existing programs, submitting program proposals for school board approval as necessary.
- Provide assistance to faculty and staff in duties such as teaching classes, conducting orientation programs, issuing transcripts, and scheduling events.
- Prepare and administer contracts for provision of property services, such as cleaning, maintenance, and security services.
- Prepare requests for proposals (RFPs) for wind project construction or equipment acquisition.
- Prepare and submit permit applications for demolition, cleanup, remediation, or construction projects.
- Obtain permits for constructing, upgrading, or operating geothermal power plants.
- Apply for and obtain all necessary permits or licenses.
- Negotiate the sale, lease, or development of property and complete or review appropriate documents and forms.
- Prepare or assist in the preparation of applications for environmental, building, or other required permits.
What we would actually use
One recommendation rather than a shortlist, because a shortlist is just your problem handed back. This is what we would buy for recording, documentation and administration, and what it costs.
The work is not writing the record, it is filing it where the record lives. Make reaches most of those systems from $9 a month, which is the cheapest honest start; Composio is for when you are writing the agent yourself.
Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.
The rest of the category
Context, not alternatives to weigh up. We name the layer rather than promise a named product does your specific task.
Matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Check any of them can reach the system your records actually live in — that connection, not the model, is where these projects stall.
How people actually do it
No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Who does this work
8 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Brownfield Redevelopment Specialists and Site Managers
- Construction Managers
- Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary
- Education Administrators, Postsecondary
- Geothermal Production Managers
- Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers
- Purchasing Managers
- Wind Energy Development Managers
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Prepare documentation for contracts, applications, or permits”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.