A task performed by Writers and Authors
Review advertising trends, consumer surveys, and other data regarding marketing of goods and services to determine the best way to promote products.
Likely yes, and the people who do it want it gone. Workers rate their desire to automate this 3/5, and experts rate current AI capability at 4/5. That puts it in the Automation Green Light zone.
Do you want this task automated?
How much the people who do this task want AI to take it over (avg of 4 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 work75%
- It's repetitive50%
- It's stressful50%
- It's difficult25%
- Helps handle larger scale25%
How to automate this
Good news: this is a strong candidate to automate now.
Monitoring & tracking
Watch by exception, get pinged only when something needs you.
- 1Decide what counts as normal when you review advertising trends, consumer surveys, and other data regarding marketing of goods and services, then set thresholds so the system flags exceptions automatically.
- 2Put live numbers on a dashboard instead of compiling status by hand.
- 3Route alerts to email or chat with a no-code flow.
Tools that can help
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This is 1 of 5 tasks studied for Writers and Authors, where workers want 40% of tasks automated.
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