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Business Intelligence Analysts
Produce financial and market intelligence by querying data repositories and generating periodic reports. Devise methods for identifying data patterns and trends in available information sources.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Generate standard or custom reports summarizing business, financial, or economic data for review by executives, managers, clients, and other stakeholders.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Maintain or update business intelligence tools, databases, dashboards, systems, or methods.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Manage timely flow of business intelligence information to users.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Provide technical support for existing reports, dashboards, or other tools.People already use AI for this at work
- 05Identify and analyze industry or geographic trends with business strategy implications.People already use AI for this at work
- 06Document specifications for business intelligence or information technology reports, dashboards, or other outputs.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Create business intelligence tools or systems, including design of related databases, spreadsheets, or outputs.People already use AI for this at work
- 08Collect business intelligence data from available industry reports, public information, field reports, or purchased sources.People already use AI for this at work
- 09Disseminate information regarding tools, reports, or metadata enhancements.People already use AI for this at work
- 10Conduct or coordinate tests to ensure that intelligence is consistent with defined needs.AI could speed this up a lot
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss46%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
70%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 98% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.
AI tools for your work
Official connectors that let an AI assistant work inside the apps data analysts use. Each is made by the app’s own maker.