A task performed by Online Merchants
Prepare or organize online storefront marketing material, including product descriptions or subject lines, optimizing content to search engine criteria.
Not yet. Workers want this automated (3.14/5), but experts rate today's AI capability at only 3/5, the technology isn't there. It's an R&D Opportunity.
Do you want this task automated?
How much the people who do this task want AI to take it over (avg of 7 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 want this automated
- Frees up time for higher-value work57%
- It's stressful43%
- Reduces human error43%
- Helps handle larger scale43%
- It's repetitive29%
- It's difficult29%
How to automate this
Workers want this gone, but today's tools only get part of the way. Automate the edges.
Creative & strategic work
Hard to fully automate. Use AI as a fast first draft, not the final word.
- 1Use AI to generate options and rough drafts when you prepare or organize online storefront marketing material, then shape them yourself.
- 2Keep templates and swipe files so you start faster.
- 3Automate the production steps around the creative core, not the core itself.
Tools that can help
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This is 1 of 15 tasks studied for Online Merchants, where workers want 67% of tasks automated.
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