AI exposure: Business Continuity Planners
Develop, maintain, or implement business continuity and disaster recovery strategies and solutions, including risk assessments, business impact analyses, strategy selection, and documentation of business continuity and disaster recovery procedures. Plan, conduct, and debrief regular mock-disaster exercises to test the adequacy of existing plans and strategies, updating procedures and plans regularly. Act as a coordinator for continuity efforts after a disruption event.
Reading this score
computed52.9% of this occupation's weighted task load is exposed, which puts Business Continuity Planners at the 91th percentile of 923 occupations. The capability is largely there. Its average task scores 3.3 out of 4 on what a current system can produce, and the frictions that hold other jobs in place are comparatively weak here.
What holds the line here is context. Across this occupation's 21 tasks it averages 2.00 out of 3, the highest of the five friction dimensions. In plain terms, the work depends on knowledge the model cannot hold. Much of this job runs on things that were never written down: what this particular organisation does, what happened last week, what the person across the table actually meant. That context is the barrier, and it erodes as systems are given more access.
The most exposed thing this job does is Maintain and update organization information technology applications and network systems..., at 73.3%. The least is Identify individual or transaction targets to direct intelligence collection, at 35.0%. A gap of 38.3% between two parts of the same job is the reason this index publishes at task level. An occupation-wide number would have hidden both.
Within business and financial operations occupations, this one is more exposed than most. The median across the 48 roles in the group is 47.1%, and only 14 of them score higher than this. Occupational families are not uniform, and the spread inside them is often wider than the gap between them.
What would move this score. Of 21 tasks, 20 are currently banded exposed, 1 assisted and 0 untouched. For that distribution to shift materially would take cheaper ways to verify output, since the cost of checking is currently doing more to hold this work in place than the cost of producing it. The score is re-computed every quarter against a fresh capability reference, and the change is published rather than quietly applied.
Task by task
21 tasks, O*NET 31.0| Task | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Importance | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maintain and update organization information technology applications and network systems blueprints. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 4.30 | exposed |
| Write reports to summarize testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 4.09 | exposed |
| Create business continuity and disaster recovery budgets. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 3.80 | exposed |
| Create scenarios to reestablish operations from various types of business disruptions. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 3.77 | exposed |
| Prepare reports summarizing operational results, financial performance, or accomplishments of specified objectives, goals, or plans. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 3.63 | exposed |
| Conduct or oversee collection of corporate intelligence to avoid fraud, financial crime, cyber attack, terrorism, and infrastructure failure. | 61.3% | 26.2% | 12.5% | 4.58 | exposed |
| Recommend or implement methods to monitor, evaluate, or enable resolution of safety, operations, or compliance interruptions. | 58.3% | 29.2% | 12.5% | 3.90 | exposed |
| Analyze corporate intelligence data to identify trends, patterns, or warnings indicating threats to security of people, assets, information, or infrastructure. | 58.3% | 29.2% | 12.5% | 3.63 | exposed |
| Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 4.65 | exposed |
| Develop disaster recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets, such as data centers. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 4.48 | exposed |
| Review existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 4.25 | exposed |
| Design or implement products and services to mitigate risk or facilitate use of technology-based tools and methods. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 4.00 | exposed |
| Conduct or oversee contingency plan integration and operation. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 3.85 | exposed |
| Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements. | 45.0% | 30.0% | 25.0% | 4.18 | exposed |
| Create or administer training and awareness presentations or materials. | 42.5% | 32.5% | 25.0% | 4.09 | exposed |
| Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans. | 40.0% | 35.0% | 25.0% | 4.55 | exposed |
| Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster. | 40.0% | 35.0% | 25.0% | 4.32 | exposed |
| Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives. | 40.0% | 35.0% | 25.0% | 4.30 | exposed |
| Interpret government regulations and applicable codes to ensure compliance. | 40.0% | 35.0% | 25.0% | 3.70 | exposed |
| Attend professional meetings, read literature, and participate in training or other educational offerings to keep abreast of new developments and technologies related to disaster recovery and business continuity. | 36.7% | 13.3% | 50.0% | 3.30 | exposed |
| Identify individual or transaction targets to direct intelligence collection. | 35.0% | 40.0% | 25.0% | 3.90 | assisted |
Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean.
Where the score comes from
judgedEvery task is scored through the standardised work activities it maps to. These are this occupation’s averages on the six rubric dimensions. Capability is what AI can do; the other five are what stands in the way.
| Dimension | Mean | Scale |
|---|---|---|
| Capability | 3.26 | 0-4 |
| Embodiment | 0.02 | 0-3 |
| Presence | 0.19 | 0-3 |
| Accountability | 1.29 | 0-3 |
| Context | 2.00 | 0-3 |
| Verification cost | 1.83 | 0-3 |
What this means in practice
Where most of a role's weighted task load is exposed, the work that survives is usually the part of the job nobody wrote into the job description: deciding what should be produced rather than producing it, and being answerable for the result. The tasks lowest on this page are a better guide to where to spend your time than any general advice about the future of work.
Occupations either side of this one
The four closest scores in the same occupational family, then the four closest anywhere in the index.
Read this carefully. Exposure is not displacement. A high score means current AI systems can produce this work, not that anyone will stop paying a person to do it. Adoption depends on economics, regulation and inertia that this index deliberately does not model. How the score is built.