Estimate costs or terms of sales.

Estimate costs or terms of sales. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 6 occupations and seen in 11 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Determine values or prices of goods or services. in Making Decisions and Solving Problems .

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 11 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 11 (100%) 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 0.004% 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.

• Provide clients with estimates of the costs of advertising products or services. · Advertising Sales Agents · importance 4.5 · exposure with tools
• Estimate or quote prices, credit or contract terms, warranties, and delivery dates. · Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products · importance 4.3 · direct LLM exposure
• Estimate and quote trade-in allowances. · Retail Salespersons · importance 4.2 · exposure with tools
• Quote prices, credit terms, or other bid specifications. · Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products · importance 4.1 · direct LLM exposure
• Prepare drawings, estimates, and bids that meet specific customer needs. · Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Compute customer's installation or production costs and estimate savings from new services, products, or equipment. · Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Supply the latest price quotes on any security, as well as information on the activities or financial positions of the corporations issuing these securities. · Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Estimate quantity and cost of merchandise required, such as paint or floor covering. · Retail Salespersons · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Estimate cost of repair or alteration of merchandise. · Retail Salespersons · importance 3.2 · direct LLM exposure
• Price securities or commodities based on market conditions. · Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents · exposure with tools
• Quote prices, credit terms, contract terms, or fulfillment dates for services. · Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel · direct LLM exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Advertising Sales Agents
• Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products
• Retail Salespersons
• Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products
• Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents
• Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel

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-estimate-costs-or-terms-of-sales,
  title  = {Estimate costs or terms of sales.},
  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/estimate-costs-or-terms-of-sales}
}