Testify at legal or legislative proceedings.
Part of the output can be produced by software today.
Software drafts well and sends at volume, and vertical support agents now resolve a large share of inbound questions end to end. What does not transfer is the relationship, and the judgment about when a message should not be sent at all.
| How automatable | Partly automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Routine communication and explanation |
| Jobs that do it | 31 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Vertical agents, Builders, Generalist agents |
| O*NET activity | Communicating with People Outside the Organization (4.A.4.a.3) |
What could do this work.
These are the categories of tool that address routine communication and explanation, with a few live examples from our landscape. We name the category rather than promise that a specific product does your specific task, because that promise would not be true.
Vertical agents
Builders
Generalist agents
Categories are matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Before committing to any of them, check that the tool can reach the system your record actually lives in. That connection, not the model, is where most of these projects stall.
Who does this work.
31 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Actuaries
- Agricultural Inspectors
- Animal Control Workers
- Appraisers and Assessors of Real Estate
- Appraisers of Personal and Business Property
- Budget Analysts
- Chief Executives
- Coroners
- Customs and Border Protection Officers
- Detectives and Criminal Investigators
- Digital Forensics Analysts
- Economists
- Embalmers
- Environmental Compliance Inspectors
- Fire Inspectors and Investigators
- First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives
- Fish and Game Wardens
- Forensic Science Technicians
- Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts
- Government Property Inspectors and Investigators
- Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors
- Industrial-Organizational Psychologists
- Labor Relations Specialists
- Parking Enforcement Workers
- Physicians, Pathologists
- Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers
- Police Identification and Records Officers
- Private Detectives and Investigators
- Retail Loss Prevention Specialists
- Surveyors
- Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents
Work that goes with it.
O*NET groups these under “Present information in legal proceedings”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
| Activity | Jobs |
|---|---|
| Represent the interests of clients in legal proceedings | 4 |
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.