Automatable

A task performed by Writers and Authors

Conduct research and interviews to determine which of a product's selling features should be promoted.

Green LightWorkers want it · AI can do it

Likely yes, and the people who do it want it gone. Workers rate their desire to automate this 3.67/5, and experts rate current AI capability at 3.5/5. That puts it in the Automation Green Light zone.

Worker desire to automate3.7/5

How much the people who do this task want AI to take it over (avg of 3 workers).

AI capability today3.5/5

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.

H3Equal human–AI partnership

Why workers want this automated

  • Frees up time for higher-value work67%
  • It's repetitive33%
  • It's stressful33%
  • Reduces human error33%
  • Helps handle larger scale33%

How to automate this

Good news: this is a strong candidate to automate now.

Finding & gathering information

Make the information come to you on a schedule.

  1. 1Set up saved searches and alerts instead of checking manually (Google Alerts, feeds).
  2. 2Pull updates into one place with RSS or a no-code scraper.
  3. 3Use an AI search tool for the first pass, then verify the sources.

Tools that can help

Google Alerts / RSSBrowse AIPerplexity

Know a better way, or spot an error?

Share how you automate this in real life, or correct the data. Reviewed before publishing.

This is 1 of 5 tasks studied for Writers and Authors, where workers want 40% of tasks automated.

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