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Solar Sales Representatives and Assessors
Contact new or existing customers to determine their solar equipment needs, suggest systems or equipment, or estimate costs.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Prepare proposals, quotes, contracts, or presentations for potential solar customers.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Select solar energy products, systems, or services for customers based on electrical energy requirements, site conditions, price, or other factors.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Provide customers with information, such as quotes, orders, sales, shipping, warranties, credit, funding options, incentives, or tax rebates.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Gather information from prospective customers to identify their solar energy needs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Calculate potential solar resources or solar array production for a particular site considering issues such as climate, shading, and roof orientation.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Generate solar energy customer leads to develop new accounts.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Provide technical information about solar power, solar systems, equipment, and services to potential customers or dealers.People already use AI for this at work
- 08Assess sites to determine suitability for solar equipment, using equipment such as tape measures, compasses, and computer software.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Take quote requests or orders from dealers or customers.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Prepare or review detailed design drawings, specifications, or lists related to solar installations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
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 loss27%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
46%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 91% 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 51% 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
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 sales use. Each is made by the app’s own maker.