The Task Exposure Indexv2026.Q3
Occupation · SOC 15-2051.01 · Job Zone 4

AI exposure: Business Intelligence Analysts

Produce financial and market intelligence by querying data repositories and generating periodic reports. Devise methods for identifying data patterns and trends in available information sources.

Reading this score

computed

Business Intelligence Analysts sits in the top 0% of every occupation measured. 72.0% of what this job consists of, weighted by how important each task is to the role, is work current AI systems can produce with little standing in the way. Very few occupations score this high. The ones that do tend to share a trait: the output is a document, a calculation or a message, and nobody has to be in a particular room for it to count.

What holds the line here is context. Across this occupation's 17 tasks it averages 1.88 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 or update business intelligence tools, databases, dashboards, systems, or methods, at 86.7%. The least is Conduct or coordinate tests to ensure that intelligence is consistent with defined needs, at 55.0%. A gap of 31.7% 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 computer and mathematical occupations, this one is more exposed than most. The median across the 36 roles in the group is 56.7%, and only 0 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 17 tasks, 17 are currently banded exposed, 0 assisted and 0 untouched. For that distribution to shift materially would take systems being given deeper access to the organisation's own records and history, which is already happening. The score is re-computed every quarter against a fresh capability reference, and the change is published rather than quietly applied.

Task by task

17 tasks, O*NET 31.0
TaskExposedAssistedUntouchedImportanceBand
Maintain or update business intelligence tools, databases, dashboards, systems, or methods.86.7%13.3%0.0%4.36exposed
Identify and analyze industry or geographic trends with business strategy implications.80.0%20.0%0.0%3.86exposed
Collect business intelligence data from available industry reports, public information, field reports, or purchased sources.80.0%20.0%0.0%3.68exposed
Synthesize current business intelligence or trend data to support recommendations for action.80.0%20.0%0.0%3.59exposed
Analyze competitive market strategies through analysis of related product, market, or share trends.80.0%20.0%0.0%3.58exposed
Identify or monitor current and potential customers, using business intelligence tools.80.0%20.0%0.0%3.47exposed
Analyze technology trends to identify markets for future product development or to improve sales of existing products.80.0%20.0%0.0%3.22exposed
Generate standard or custom reports summarizing business, financial, or economic data for review by executives, managers, clients, and other stakeholders.73.3%26.7%0.0%4.64exposed
Provide technical support for existing reports, dashboards, or other tools.73.3%26.7%0.0%3.95exposed
Create business intelligence tools or systems, including design of related databases, spreadsheets, or outputs.73.3%26.7%0.0%3.70exposed
Maintain library of model documents, templates, or other reusable knowledge assets.73.3%26.7%0.0%3.41exposed
Disseminate information regarding tools, reports, or metadata enhancements.66.7%33.3%0.0%3.65exposed
Communicate with customers, competitors, suppliers, professional organizations, or others to stay abreast of industry or business trends.65.0%10.0%25.0%3.43exposed
Document specifications for business intelligence or information technology reports, dashboards, or other outputs.64.2%23.3%12.5%3.73exposed
Create or review technical design documentation to ensure the accurate development of reporting solutions.60.0%40.0%0.0%3.36exposed
Manage timely flow of business intelligence information to users.55.0%20.0%25.0%4.19exposed
Conduct or coordinate tests to ensure that intelligence is consistent with defined needs.55.0%20.0%25.0%3.64exposed

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

judged

Every 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.

DimensionMeanScale
Capability3.790-4
Embodiment0.000-3
Presence0.120-3
Accountability0.530-3
Context1.880-3
Verification cost1.060-3

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.