AI exposure: Solar Sales Representatives and Assessors
Contact new or existing customers to determine their solar equipment needs, suggest systems or equipment, or estimate costs.
Reading this score
computed52.8% of this occupation's weighted task load is exposed, which puts Solar Sales Representatives and Assessors at the 91th percentile of 923 occupations. The capability is largely there. Its average task scores 3.0 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 13 tasks it averages 1.85 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 Generate solar energy customer leads to develop new accounts, at 80.0%. The least is Demonstrate use of solar and related equipment to customers or dealers, at 15.0%. A gap of 65.0% 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 sales occupations, this one is more exposed than most. The median across the 22 roles in the group is 49.4%, and only 8 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 13 tasks, 11 are currently banded exposed, 1 assisted and 1 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
13 tasks, O*NET 31.0| Task | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Importance | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Generate solar energy customer leads to develop new accounts. | 80.0% | 20.0% | 0.0% | 4.42 | exposed |
| Provide technical information about solar power, solar systems, equipment, and services to potential customers or dealers. | 66.7% | 33.3% | 0.0% | 4.41 | exposed |
| Prepare proposals, quotes, contracts, or presentations for potential solar customers. | 65.2% | 26.5% | 8.3% | 4.77 | exposed |
| Gather information from prospective customers to identify their solar energy needs. | 55.0% | 20.0% | 25.0% | 4.54 | exposed |
| Calculate potential solar resources or solar array production for a particular site considering issues such as climate, shading, and roof orientation. | 55.0% | 20.0% | 25.0% | 4.52 | exposed |
| Take quote requests or orders from dealers or customers. | 55.0% | 20.0% | 25.0% | 4.27 | exposed |
| Prepare or review detailed design drawings, specifications, or lists related to solar installations. | 55.0% | 20.0% | 25.0% | 4.24 | exposed |
| Develop marketing or strategic plans for sales territories. | 55.0% | 20.0% | 25.0% | 3.75 | exposed |
| Select solar energy products, systems, or services for customers based on electrical energy requirements, site conditions, price, or other factors. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 4.77 | exposed |
| Create customized energy management packages to satisfy customer needs. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 4.01 | exposed |
| Provide customers with information, such as quotes, orders, sales, shipping, warranties, credit, funding options, incentives, or tax rebates. | 49.6% | 37.9% | 12.5% | 4.58 | exposed |
| Assess sites to determine suitability for solar equipment, using equipment such as tape measures, compasses, and computer software. | 23.3% | 26.7% | 50.0% | 4.38 | assisted |
| Demonstrate use of solar and related equipment to customers or dealers. | 15.0% | 10.0% | 75.0% | 3.55 | untouched |
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 | 3.01 | 0-4 |
| Embodiment | 0.46 | 0-3 |
| Presence | 0.81 | 0-3 |
| Accountability | 0.73 | 0-3 |
| Context | 1.85 | 0-3 |
| Verification cost | 0.99 | 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.