Free tool
Read your profession's work for automation fit, task by task.
Pick a profession. Walk its tasks one at a time. The Explorer reads each for automation fit. A considerations sheet at the end.
01How it works
Two steps. The second does the work.
Pick the profession you lead. Then walk its tasks, one at a time, with the Explorer reading each one for automation fit.
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Step 01
Pick the profession you lead
One of four. Each carries its own tasks, its own judgement, its own relationship to automation.
Four professions
- 01User research.Recruitment, discussion guide, fieldwork, transcription, synthesis, theming, panel and ethics.
- 02Service design.Service shape, journeys, mapping, cross‑channel orchestration.
- 03Content design.Writing, voice, plain English, terminology, accessibility.
- 04Interaction design.Interface, interaction patterns, prototyping, accessibility.
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Step 02
Walk each task
For each task in the profession, type your context. The model suggests a level and the reasoning. You confirm or amend. Four levels, light touch to hands‑off.
Four levels
- 01Suggested.AI suggests; the practitioner decides.
- 02Assisted.AI drafts; the practitioner edits.
- 03Automated.AI runs; the practitioner audits.
- 04Autonomous.AI runs; no human in the loop.
02What you get out
A considerations sheet.
The sheet gives a suggested level for each task in the profession you picked, plus what to weigh against it. A working note for a head of profession, not a verdict on a service.
Sample task, from a considerations sheet
User research · fieldwork.
Fieldwork sits one rung short of automated. The recording and the transcript are well suited to AI. The live listening is not. Treat the platform as taking the recording off your hands. Keep the listening human.
Three things deserve attention. Consent has to survive the model's processing chain. Transcripts diverge from speech in ways that bias synthesis, especially for dialects and non‑native English. And the discussion guide carries more weight. If it's loose, the transcription's structure is loose too.
The example above is one task from the journey. Your sheet covers every task in the profession you picked, each with its suggested level and the trade‑offs to weigh. Yours to keep, share with your leadership group, or take into a profession‑board conversation.
03The practitioner
Built by Chris Leo.
Eighteen years in UCD, eight in UK central government. Cross‑government and HMRC Service Standard assessor. The Explorer draws on Cambridge's HCI for AI Systems methodology and on automation‑research literature. The readings come from public‑sector AI‑enabled practice.
Free to use, free to share. The tool is intentionally light: no account, no follow‑up other than the considerations sheet and an opt‑in to the newsletter. Your task context is read by an LLM (Anthropic) for the per‑task suggestion and not retained beyond the call.
Drawn from
Cambridge HCI for AI Systems·MRS Diploma·BSc Psychology
Open the explorer
Free, anonymous, takes about 20 minutes.
Pick a profession, walk its tasks one at a time. The considerations sheet assembles at the end. You can pause and pick up from where you left off on the same browser. No account needed.