A task performed by Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products
Compute customer's installation or production costs and estimate savings from new services, products, or equipment.
Technically, much of it, experts rate AI capability 4/5, but workers don't want it automated (desire 2.67/5). It's an Automation Red Light: proceed with care.
Do you want this task automated?
How much the people who do this task want AI to take it over (avg of 9 workers).
How capable experts rate current AI at this task (avg of 2 experts).
How much human involvement should stay?
The Human Agency Scale (H1–H5) captures how much human direction workers think this task should keep.
Why workers feel the way they do
- Frees up time for higher-value work44%
- Helps handle larger scale33%
- It's repetitive22%
- Reduces human error22%
- It's stressful11%
- It's difficult11%
How to automate this
Doable with technology, but keep a person clearly in charge.
Calculations & estimates
Turn the math into a reusable calculator.
- 1Turn the math you use to compute customer's installation or production costs and estimate savings from new services into a spreadsheet model, so estimates update from the inputs.
- 2Use the calculators already built into your industry software.
- 3Check with formulas instead of recomputing by hand.
Tools that can help
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This is 1 of 12 tasks studied for Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products, where workers want 42% of tasks automated.
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