Write articles, books or other original materials in area of expertise
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 | 43 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 43 occupations that perform it.
- Write for technical magazines, journals, and trade association publications.
- Prepare brochures and write newspaper articles.
- Write articles for publication in professional journals.
- Write research papers for publication in scientific journals.
- Share information about religious issues by writing articles, giving speeches, or teaching.
- Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.
- Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in books, professional journals, or electronic media.
- Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and present findings in professional journals, books, electronic media, or at professional conferences.
- Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in scholarly journals, books, or electronic media.
- Write articles and books.
- Write instructional articles on designated subjects.
- Write and review grant proposals, journal articles, institutional reports, and publicity materials.
- Compose explanatory summaries of contents of books and other reference materials.
- Conduct agricultural research, analyze data, and prepare research reports.
- Write original literary pieces.
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
43 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary
- Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary
- Architecture Teachers, Postsecondary
- Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Teachers, Postsecondary
- Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary
- Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary
- Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Business Teachers, Postsecondary
- Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary
- Clergy
- Communications Teachers, Postsecondary
- Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary
- Curators
- Economics Teachers, Postsecondary
- Education Teachers, Postsecondary
- Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary
- English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary
- Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Epidemiologists
- Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary
- Farm and Home Management Educators
- Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary
- Forestry and Conservation Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Geography Teachers, Postsecondary
- Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary
- History Teachers, Postsecondary
- Law Teachers, Postsecondary
- Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Library Technicians
- Materials Engineers
- Materials Scientists
- Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary
- Park Naturalists
- Philosophy and Religion Teachers, Postsecondary
- Physics Teachers, Postsecondary
- Political Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary
- Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary
- Self-Enrichment Teachers
- Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary
- Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Write material for artistic or commercial purposes”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
| Activity | Jobs |
|---|---|
| Write material for artistic or entertainment purposes | 6 |
| Write advertising or promotional material | 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.