Develop business relationships.

Develop business relationships. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 8 occupations and seen in 10 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Develop professional relationships or networks. in Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 10 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 6 (60%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

The Anthropic Economic Index observes real AI use on 3 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.003% per task.

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Identify and build relationships with potential donors. · Fundraisers · importance 5.0 · exposure with tools
• Write and send letters of thanks to donors. · Fundraisers · importance 4.7 · direct LLM exposure
• Maintain and develop positive business relationships with a customer's key personnel involved in, or directly relevant to, a logistics activity. · Logisticians · importance 4.5 · no direct exposure
• Establish or maintain cooperative relationships with representatives of community, consumer, employee, or public interest groups. · Public Relations Specialists · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Develop contacts with individuals and organizations, and apply effective strategies and techniques to ensure their clients' success. · Agents and Business Managers of Artists, Performers, and Athletes · importance 3.9 · exposure with tools
• Recruit and maintain client bases. · Personal Financial Advisors · importance 3.5 · exposure with tools
• Attend meetings, trade shows, conferences, conventions, and seminars to network with people in other purchasing departments. · Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products · importance 3.5 · no direct exposure
• Develop and maintain media contact lists. · Fundraisers · importance 2.9 · exposure with tools
• Maintain relationships with customs brokers in other ports to expedite clearing of cargo. · Customs Brokers · importance 2.8 · exposure with tools
• Develop and maintain client relationships. · Financial and Investment Analysts · no direct exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Fundraisers
• Logisticians
• Public Relations Specialists
• Agents and Business Managers of Artists, Performers, and Athletes
• Personal Financial Advisors
• Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
• Customs Brokers
• Financial and Investment Analysts

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-develop-business-relationships,
  title  = {Develop business relationships.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/detailed-activities/develop-business-relationships}
}