AI exposure: Floral Designers
Design, cut, and arrange live, dried, or artificial flowers and foliage.
Reading this score
computedAt 34.3% of weighted task load, Floral Designers sits at the 59th percentile, below the point where a job's centre of gravity has moved. 50.3% of what this role does is untouched, meaning current systems cannot produce that work at all, whatever the commercial incentive.
What holds the line here is embodiment. Across this occupation's 15 tasks it averages 1.57 out of 3, the highest of the five friction dimensions. In plain terms, the work has to happen in physical space. A language model cannot move matter. Until the robotics to do this work is both good enough and cheap enough to deploy widely, capability in software does not reach it.
The most exposed thing this job does is Perform office and retail service duties, at 80.0%. The least is Unpack stock as it comes into the shop, at 0.0%. A gap of 80.0% 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 arts, design, entertainment, sports and media occupations, this one is less exposed than the median of 38.5% across the group's 40 roles, with 25 scoring higher. Being in an exposed family does not make a particular job exposed, and the reverse holds too.
What would move this score. Of 15 tasks, 9 are currently banded exposed, 0 assisted and 6 untouched. For that distribution to shift materially would take robotics cheap and reliable enough to deploy at scale, not a better language model. The score is re-computed every quarter against a fresh capability reference, and the change is published rather than quietly applied.
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 | 2.00 | 0-4 |
| Embodiment | 1.57 | 0-3 |
| Presence | 0.80 | 0-3 |
| Accountability | 0.40 | 0-3 |
| Context | 1.40 | 0-3 |
| Verification cost | 0.77 | 0-3 |
Task by task
15 tasks, O*NET 31.0| Task | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Importance | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perform office and retail service duties, such as keeping financial records, serving customers, answering telephones, selling giftware items, and receiving payment. | 80.0% | 20.0% | 0.0% | 4.56 | exposed |
| Inform customers about the care, maintenance, and handling of various flowers and foliage, indoor plants, and other items. | 80.0% | 20.0% | 0.0% | 4.16 | exposed |
| Deliver arrangements to customers, or oversee employees responsible for deliveries. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 4.47 | exposed |
| Plan arrangement according to client's requirements, using knowledge of design and properties of materials, or select appropriate standard design pattern. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 4.89 | exposed |
| Create and change in-store and window displays, designs, and looks to enhance a shop's image. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 3.44 | exposed |
| Confer with clients regarding price and type of arrangement desired and the date, time, and place of delivery. | 45.0% | 30.0% | 25.0% | 4.68 | exposed |
| Select flora and foliage for arrangements, working with numerous combinations to synthesize and develop new creations. | 33.3% | 16.7% | 50.0% | 4.44 | exposed |
| Order and purchase flowers and supplies from wholesalers and growers. | 30.0% | 20.0% | 50.0% | 4.32 | exposed |
| Conduct classes or demonstrations, or train other workers. | 26.7% | 23.3% | 50.0% | 3.41 | exposed |
| Wrap and price completed arrangements. | 26.2% | 11.2% | 62.5% | 4.53 | untouched |
| Trim material and arrange bouquets, wreaths, terrariums, and other items, using trimmers, shapers, wire, pins, floral tape, foam, and other materials. | 15.0% | 10.0% | 75.0% | 4.84 | untouched |
| Water plants, and cut, condition, and clean flowers and foliage for storage. | 7.1% | 5.4% | 87.5% | 4.44 | untouched |
| Perform general cleaning duties in the store to ensure the shop is clean and tidy. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.22 | untouched |
| Decorate, or supervise the decoration of, buildings, halls, churches, or other facilities for parties, weddings and other occasions. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.16 | untouched |
| Unpack stock as it comes into the shop. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.11 | untouched |
Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean.
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.
What this means in practice
Most of this work is not reachable by current systems, so the immediate pressure is on the administrative edges of the role rather than its core: the scheduling, the reporting, the written records. That is where time is recovered.