Business Roles
Who do you need on your team?
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Corporate loyalty does not exist
Core Functions
How can AI be used to shrink broaden coverage of key functional roles with less staff?
| Roles | AI Agent | AI Potential | AI Realisation | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Roles | ?/5 | ?/5 | ||
| - AI Business Engineer | ?/5 | ?/5 | Data + Business + Product + Customer Experience | |
| - Sales | ?/5 | ?/5 | ||
| - Strategist | ?/5 | ?/5 | ||
| Business Operations | ||||
| - Operations | ?/5 | ?/5 | ||
| - Marketing | ?/5 | ?/5 | ||
| - Commercial | ?/5 | ?/5 | ||
| - Human Resources | ?/5 | ?/5 | ||
| - Finance | ?/5 | ?/5 | ||
| - Legal | ?/5 | ?/5 | ||
| - Risk Management | ?/5 | ?/5 | ||
| Tech Operations | ?/5 | ?/5 | Technology | |
| - Technology Officer CTO | ?/5 | ?/5 | Technology innovation & product development | |
| - Information Systems CIO | ?/5 | ?/5 | Internal IT infrastructure & operations | |
| - Information Security | ?/5 | ?/5 | ||
| Platform Engineer | ?/5 | ?/5 | ||
| - Data Engineer | ?/5 | ?/5 | ||
| - Protocol Engineer | ?/5 | ?/5 | ||
| - Data Engineer | ?/5 | ?/5 | ||
| - DePIN Engineer | ?/5 | ?/5 |
AI Engineers are taking over business operations.
Jobs and AI Products
Use Jobs to be Done analysis to establish where better tools can provide greater leverage to operate more effectively to eliminate waste and maximize opportunities.
| Function | Role | LLM | AI Agent | Products |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strategy | Idea Machine | gummysearch, treendly, glimpse | ||
| Strategy | Startup Founder | stripe, producthunt, angellist | ||
| Strategy | Venture Capital | crunchbase, pitchbook, cb insights | ||
| Product Development | Product Manager | productboard, aha, airfocus | ||
| Product Development | Market Researcher | exploding topics, trendhunter, sparktoro | ||
| Product Development | Product Validator | validately, userfeed, prelaunchhero | ||
| Product Development | Programmer | cursor.ai, replit, claude 3.5 | ||
| Product Development | UX Researcher | maze, hotjar, usertesting | ||
| Product Development | UX Designer | v0, playground, galileo ai | ||
| Marketing | Copywriter | jenni.ai, copy.ai, anyword | ||
| Marketing | Email Marketer | beehiiv, substack, convertkit | ||
| Marketing | Faceless video producer | revid, pictory, vidyo.ai | ||
| Marketing | Marketing Strategist | semrush, ahrefs, moz | ||
| Marketing | Growth hacker | mutinyha, growthbook, voyantis, phlanx, viral-loops | ||
| Marketing | Community Manager | tribe.so, circle.so, mighty networks | ||
| Marketing | Podcast producer | synthesia, riverside, descript | ||
| Marketing | SEO Specialist | surfer, clearscope, marketmuse | ||
| Marketing | Social Media Manager | zaap.ai | ||
| Marketing | Video Producer | runway, descript, veed | ||
| Sales Pipeline | Customer Success | intercom, front, chatdesk | ||
| Sales Pipeline | Lead Magnet | gamma.io, mailerlite, systeme.io | ||
| Sales Pipeline | Pitch Deck Creator | beautiful.ai, gamma, pitch.com | ||
| Sales Pipeline | Public Relations | prezly, onepitch, prowly | ||
| Sales Pipeline | Sales Flow | apollo.io, outreach, gong | ||
| Business Operations | Business Analyst | holistics, metabase, preset | ||
| Business Operations | Data Scientist | obviously.ai, h2o.ai, datarobot, bigml, rapidminer | ||
| Business Operations | Financial Analyst | finta, runway, pulse | ||
| Business Operations | Legal Assistant | donotpay, lawdepot, wonder.legal, spellbook | ||
| Business Operations | Project Manager | clickup, notion, coda, linear | ||
| Business Operations | Recruiter | dover, fetcher, gem |
How long before all of these software products loose their moat to AI Agents?
Roles By Industry
| Industry | Unique Roles | AI Potential | AI Realisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Practice | ?/5 | ?/5 | |
| Real Estate | ?/5 | ?/5 | |
| Gaming | ?/5 | ?/5 |
Analysis Meta
- Roles: Which heads of business functions are needed?
- Recruitment: What triggers need?
- Critical Problems: Where is expertise needed?
- LLM: Best LLM function for the job?
- Purpose: Why does this role exist?
- Problem Owner: Who prioritizes and own solving the biggest problems impacting ability to make progress?
- AI Potential: Spec opportunity cost and required strategy
- AI Realisation: How effectively does execution meet intentions?
Future of Work
What range of human capabilities will be in demand to inject value into feedback loops?
Information processing jobs will be handled by Internet Native AI Agents. Find your tribe, broaden capabilities, deepen expertise and deliver something useful to build a community because traditional systems of government cannot save you.
- Data Most valuable contextual data to gain insights to improve products, protocols and tools
- Tools Best tools to gain leverage and drive continuous improvement of Protocols
- Protocols Best practice secret sauce for transforming state to create value
- Prompts Situational Wisdom to augment human decision making
- Outcomes Outcome incentivised engineering
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