Part 1 · Know Your AI Readiness
Mindset · Where AI Fits in Your Role
Of everything you did this week, which parts could AI already handle, and which parts are yours alone? That question decides where AI fits in your role.
What AI can take, and what stays yours
Your role is a bundle of tasks, and AI does not treat them equally. Some are routine and coordination work: gathering information, formatting it, drafting a first version, chasing a status update. That is pattern work, exactly what AI predicts well. The rest is judgement: deciding which option fits, weighing a trade-off nobody wrote down, owning the outcome. AI can suggest and argue convincingly. The weighing stays with you.
Take a procurement officer. Half her week goes to gathering quotes, building comparison tables, and chasing vendors for missing numbers. AI now does this work in seconds. The other half is judgement: which supplier fits the company's risk appetite, a call that goes beyond the price comparison. AI can rank the quotes. It cannot own that call.
| AI can do this | Only you can do this |
|---|---|
| Gather and format pull data, build tables | Decide what matters trade-offs, priorities |
| Draft and summarise first versions, recaps | Read the context what the moment needs |
| Chase and route status updates, handoffs | Own the outcome accountability |
How much judgement is left? You met the Remote Labor Index in the first Mindset lesson: tested on real freelance work, the best AI agent completed only two and a half percent of tasks end to end. More than ninety-seven percent still needed a human.
Role Positioning is knowing which of your own weekly tasks sit in each bucket, so you can hand the first to AI and spend more of yourself on the second.
Key Takeaway
Role positioning is knowing which of your weekly tasks sit in each bucket, so you hand the routine to AI and spend more of yourself on judgement.
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A project manager lists their weekly tasks. Which one is the clearest example of judgement work that stays theirs, not routine work AI could take?
- Compiling status updates from five teams into one summary document.
- Reformatting the project timeline into the client's preferred template each week.
- Deciding whether to tell a client a milestone will slip, and how to frame it given the relationship.
- Scheduling the recurring weekly check-in across everyone's calendars.
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Deciding whether to tell a client a milestone will slip, and how to frame it given the relationship.
Someone says, "I know AI is going to affect my job somehow, but I just try not to think about it." Where do they sit on role positioning, and what is the AI-Ready move?
- They are AI Ready, recognising AI will affect the role is enough.
- They are below AI Ready; the AI-Ready move is to sort their actual tasks into routine/coordination versus judgement.
- They are above AI Ready, staying calm about AI is the mature response.
- Position does not matter as long as they keep doing their job well.
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They are below AI Ready; the AI-Ready move is to sort their actual tasks into routine/coordination versus judgement.
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