Prepare scientific or technical reports or presentations
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 | 42 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 42 occupations that perform it.
- Create project status presentations for delivery to customers or project personnel.
- Develop presentations on threat intelligence.
- Write up or orally communicate research findings to the scientific community, producers, and the public.
- Communicate research or project results to other professionals or the public or teach related courses, seminars, or workshops.
- Prepare reports or recommendations, based upon research outcomes.
- Prepare technical reports and recommendations, based upon research outcomes.
- Disseminate information by writing reports and scientific papers or journal articles, and by making presentations and giving talks for schools, clubs, interest groups and park interpretive programs.
- Communicate research results through conference presentations, scientific publications, or project reports.
- Prepare or review reports, manuscripts, or meeting presentations.
- Prepare results of experimental findings for presentation at professional conferences or in scientific journals.
- Represent employer in a technical capacity at conferences.
- Communicate research findings on various types of diseases to health practitioners, policy makers, and the public.
- Write and publish articles in scientific journals.
- Present research findings at scientific conferences and in papers written for scientific journals.
- Describe and express observations and conclusions in mathematical terms.
- Prepare forecasts or briefings to meet the needs of industry, business, government, or other groups.
- Write technical papers or reports or prepare standards and specifications for processes, facilities, products, or tests.
- Prepare reports, manuscripts, proposals, and technical manuals for use by other scientists and requestors, such as sponsors and customers.
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
42 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Agricultural Technicians
- Animal Scientists
- Anthropologists and Archeologists
- Astronomers
- Atmospheric and Space Scientists
- Biochemists and Biophysicists
- Bioinformatics Scientists
- Biologists
- Chemical Technicians
- Chemists
- Clinical and Counseling Psychologists
- Clinical Neuropsychologists
- Economists
- Environmental Economists
- Environmental Science and Protection Technicians, Including Health
- Epidemiologists
- Forensic Science Technicians
- Geneticists
- Geographers
- Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers
- Historians
- Hydrologists
- Industrial-Organizational Psychologists
- Materials Scientists
- Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists
- Microbiologists
- Molecular and Cellular Biologists
- Neuropsychologists
- Penetration Testers
- Physicists
- Political Scientists
- Project Management Specialists
- Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists
- Remote Sensing Technicians
- School Psychologists
- Social Science Research Assistants
- Sociologists
- Soil and Plant Scientists
- Survey Researchers
- Transportation Planners
- Urban and Regional Planners
- Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Present research or technical information”. 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.