ADAPTOR · Step 1: Profile
Analysts
Research, interpret information, compare options, analyse data, and support decisions. Use this profile to identify activities and evidence for your Personal SWOT.
Typical activities
What this work contributes
This profile can show up in many job titles. Look for the activities you do and the outcomes people count on you to deliver.
- Desk research
- Market analysis
- Reporting
- Data interpretation
- Decision support
Possible change
Where AI may affect the work
AI can summarise, compare, draft analysis, generate reports, and produce plausible first-pass recommendations.
Whether that changes demand for the wider role depends on how the organisation uses the technology, what customers need, and who remains responsible for quality and outcomes.
Human contribution
What may still need your judgement
Problem framing, evidence quality judgement, interpretation, business context, and knowing what matters.
These qualities do not automatically determine the future of a role. They become useful evidence when you can connect them to a decision, result, relationship, or responsibility that matters in your work.
Apply this profile to your own work
A question to take into your Personal SWOT
Which parts of your analysis are now easier to generate? What do you do to test evidence, frame the right question, or explain what a finding means in this particular context?
Write down one example you have observed. Separate what happened from what you think it may mean, then consider how it fits alongside the other profiles in your role. Is it evidence of a Strength or Weakness in your current position, or an Opportunity or Threat around your work?
Next · Personal SWOT
Use your profile mix to examine your own position.
Set this profile alongside the other kinds of work in your role. Carry specific observations—not assumptions about the profile—into your Personal SWOT. From there, the framework helps you choose linked goals and actions.
Optional book support
Work through ADAPTOR with a guide beside you.
The complete framework is free to use on this site. Be an AI-Era ADAPTOR adds guided assessment, worked examples, practical coaching, and a companion workbook.