Prepare investigation or incident reports
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 | 11 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 11 occupations that perform it.
- Prepare news releases and respond to police correspondence.
- Write reports documenting observations made while on patrol.
- Prepare written reports that detail specifics of fire incidents.
- Prepare and maintain reports of investigation results, and records of convicted arsonists and arson suspects.
- Record progress of investigation, maintain informational files on suspects, and submit reports to commanding officer or magistrate to authorize warrants.
- Prepare comprehensive written reports, presentations, maps, or charts, based on research, collection, and analysis of intelligence data.
- Compile and present evidence for court actions.
- Record facts to prepare reports that document incidents and activities.
- Prepare reports documenting investigation activities and results.
- Write reports or case summaries to document investigations.
- Prepare written reports on investigations.
- Prepare reports that detail investigation findings.
- Issue warnings or citations and file reports as necessary.
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
11 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Detectives and Criminal Investigators
- Fire Inspectors and Investigators
- Firefighters
- First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives
- First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers
- Fish and Game Wardens
- Intelligence Analysts
- Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers
- Private Detectives and Investigators
- Retail Loss Prevention Specialists
- Transit and Railroad Police
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Record information about legal matters”. 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.