Prepare proposal documents
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 | 13 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 13 occupations that perform it.
- Compile or develop materials to submit to granting or other funding organizations.
- Explain proposed solutions to customers, management, or other interested parties through written proposals and oral presentations.
- Write grant applications, rebate applications, or project proposals to secure funding for sustainability projects.
- Prepare reports, sketches, working drawings, specifications, proposals, and budgets for proposed sites or systems.
- Prepare or present public reports on topics such as bid proposals, deeds, environmental impact statements, or property and right-of-way descriptions.
- Write, review, or comment on documents, such as proposals, test plans, or procedures.
- Perform managerial functions, such as preparing proposals and budgets, analyzing labor costs, and writing reports.
- Estimate costs or submit bids for engineering, construction, or extraction projects.
- Write technical reports or proposals related to engineering projects.
- Propose product designs involving microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology, considering market data or customer requirements.
- Write reports or proposals related to photonics research or development projects.
- Write proposals to secure external funding or to partner with other companies.
- Develop proposals that include documentation for estimates.
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
Step-by-step workflows that name this activity, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Others for recording, documentation and administration
Who does this work
13 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Prepare proposals or grant applications”. 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.