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Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers
Sell goods or services door-to-door or on the street.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Explain products or services and prices and demonstrate use of products.Mostly human for now
- 02Develop prospect lists.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Deliver merchandise and collect payment.Mostly human for now
- 04Write and record orders for merchandise or enter orders into computers.People already use AI for this at work
- 05Arrange buying parties and solicit sponsorship of such parties to sell merchandise.Mostly human for now
- 06Answer questions about product features and benefits.People already use AI for this at work
- 07Distribute product samples or literature that details products or services.Mostly human for now
- 08Circulate among potential customers or travel by foot, truck, automobile, or bicycle to deliver or sell merchandise or services.Mostly human for now
- 09Persuade customers to purchase merchandise or services.Mostly human for now
- 10Set up and display sample merchandise at parties or stands.Mostly human for now
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 loss18%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
26%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 82% 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
Above 96% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Explain products or services and prices and demonstrate use of products.
- Deliver merchandise and collect payment.
- Arrange buying parties and solicit sponsorship of such parties to sell merchandise.
AI tools for your work
Official connectors that let an AI assistant work inside the apps sales use. Each is made by the app’s own maker.