Write reports or evaluations
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 | 24 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 24 occupations that perform it.
- Document physical characteristics of property such as measurements, quality, and design.
- Write and edit technical documentation for digital interface products and designs, such as user manuals, testing protocols, and reports.
- Write reports regarding investigations of information security breaches or network evaluations.
- Write cyber defense recommendations, reports, or white papers using research or experience.
- Write reports or articles for Web sites or newsletters related to environmental engineering issues.
- Write reports or proposals related to photonics research or development projects.
- Write and submit reports about the results of calibration tests.
- Prepare written evaluations of individuals' psychological competence for court hearings.
- Write groundwater contamination reports on known, suspected, or potential hazardous waste sites.
- Write reports.
- Complete and maintain accurate records or reports regarding the patients' histories and progress, services provided, or other required information.
- Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.
- Write evaluations of parents and children for use by courts deciding divorce and custody cases, testifying in court if necessary.
- Prepare and maintain all required treatment records and reports.
- Maintain case history records and prepare reports.
- Write reports describing offenders' progress.
- Keep records or prepare reports for owner or management concerning visits with clients.
- Write letters of recommendation for students.
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
24 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary
- Appraisers of Personal and Business Property
- Calibration Technologists and Technicians
- Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary
- Child, Family, and School Social Workers
- Clinical and Counseling Psychologists
- Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary
- Digital Forensics Analysts
- Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors
- English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary
- Environmental Engineers
- Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary
- Hydrologic Technicians
- Information Security Engineers
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Mental Health Counselors
- Occupational Health and Safety Specialists
- Photonics Engineers
- Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists
- Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary
- Social and Human Service Assistants
- Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselors
- Web and Digital Interface Designers
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.