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You review exceptions, sample the auto-classified, and your click is the one that posts.", "topUseCases": [ { "interventionId": "task-2487:records-to-reconciliation-review:approval-required", "taskId": "task-2487", "task": "Operate computers programmed with accounting software to record, store, and analyze information.", "workflowId": "records-to-reconciliation-review", "authorityMode": "approval-required", "centralityScreen": { "value": 0.42525349020000003, "importance": { "value": 0.94, "sourceField": "role-tasks-kv:task-2487.importance" }, "occupationalRelevance": { "value": 0.9603, "sourceField": "role-tasks-kv:task-2487.relevance / 100" }, "frequency": { "kind": "modal-response-share", "modalResponseSharePct": 47.11, "collectionDate": "2026-06-03", "sourceField": "role-tasks-kv:task-2487.modalResponseSharePct" } }, "agentFit": { "value": 0.9025, "sourceField": "rule:digital-feasibility-and-capability-fit-single-count.v2" }, "distribution": { "value": 0.9, "sourceField": "roles-kv:aiPlaybook.delegatedTasks[task-2487].observed-distribution" }, "evidenceConfidence": "weak", "withinGateScore": 0.34541214741495, "gate": { "status": "approval-required", "reason": "A person must approve the verifiable handoff before action." }, "capabilityIds": [ "connected-apps-files", "deliverable-generation", "approval-enterprise-controls" ], "expectedArtifact": "Exception report with source-linked calculations and unresolved items", "humanReviewPoint": "Recalculate totals and approve every posting or system-of-record change.", "riskLevel": "high" }, { "interventionId": "task-2486:records-to-reconciliation-review:recommend", "taskId": "task-2486", "task": "Check figures, postings, and documents for correct entry, mathematical accuracy, and proper codes.", "workflowId": "records-to-reconciliation-review", "authorityMode": "recommend", "centralityScreen": { "value": 0.15273775599999997, "importance": { "value": 0.9199999999999999, "sourceField": "role-tasks-kv:task-2486.importance" }, "occupationalRelevance": { "value": 0.9514, "sourceField": "role-tasks-kv:task-2486.relevance / 100" }, "frequency": { "kind": "modal-response-share", "modalResponseSharePct": 17.45, "collectionDate": "2026-06-03", "sourceField": "role-tasks-kv:task-2486.modalResponseSharePct" } }, "agentFit": { "value": 0.9025, "sourceField": "rule:digital-feasibility-and-capability-fit-single-count.v2" }, "distribution": { "value": 0.35, "sourceField": "roles-kv:aiPlaybook.delegatedTasks[task-2486].observed-distribution" }, "evidenceConfidence": "weak", "withinGateScore": 0.048246038676499986, "gate": { "status": "limited", "reason": "Authority remains below an approval-required intervention." }, "capabilityIds": [ "connected-apps-files", "deliverable-generation", "approval-enterprise-controls" ], "expectedArtifact": "Review worksheet listing mismatches, evidence, and proposed corrections", "humanReviewPoint": "Verify against source documents and approve or reject each correction.", "riskLevel": "high" } ], "workflows": [ { "id": "records-to-reconciliation-review", "goal": "Turn approved transaction exports and source documents into a reconciliation review packet.", "inputs": [ "Read-only ledger export", "Bank statement", "Approved chart of accounts", "Close checklist" ], "connectedSystems": [ "Approved document repository", "Read-only accounting export" ], "steps": [ "Confirm the period, entities, currencies, and source completeness.", "Match records and calculate variances without writing to the accounting system.", "List exceptions with source references and proposed explanations.", "Produce a reconciliation packet for clerk and controller review." ], "expectedArtifact": "Reconciliation worksheet and exception log", "starterPrompt": "Using these read-only records, prepare a reconciliation review packet. Show every calculation, cite each source row, list unresolved differences, and do not post or alter records.", "humanReviewPoint": "A qualified person verifies calculations and authorizes every correction or posting.", "commonFailure": "Treating missing, duplicated, stale, or differently timed records as confirmed discrepancies." }, { "id": "month-end-close-with-controls", "goal": "Run the month-end close as a controlled checklist where every agent step is verified and every payment touch is human-gated.", "inputs": [ "Your close process as you actually run it", "Draft journals from the period (agent-prepared, unposted)", "Prior-period reports for variance comparison" ], "connectedSystems": [ "Read-only accounting export", "Approved document repository", "Close checklist tracker" ], "steps": [ "Convert the close process into an ordered checklist; insert a verification step after every agent-performed step.", "Mark every step that touches a payment, filing, or posting with an explicit human gate.", "Flag POTENTIAL segregation-of-duties conflicts for the controller to judge against your control policy; the agent surfaces patterns, your compliance owner adjudicates them.", "Draft the close reports from posted, human-approved data only, never from draft journals, and state that boundary in the report header.", "Attach variance notes with source spans for anything that moved against prior period." ], "expectedArtifact": "Controlled close checklist plus draft close reports with variance notes", "starterPrompt": "Here is my month-end close as I actually run it. Turn it into a step list where every step you would perform has a verification step after it and every payment-touching step has an explicit human gate. Flag potential segregation-of-duties conflicts for my controller to judge against our control policy. Then draft the close reports from posted data only, never from your own draft journals, and say so in the header.", "humanReviewPoint": "The controller signs the control design; postings, payments, and filings execute only on a human's authorization.", "commonFailure": "Drafting close reports from unposted agent journals, which silently blends unreviewed work into the statements." } ], "setupRecommendations": [ { "item": "Use read-only exports and a period-specific close folder.", "rationale": "This separates analysis from authority to alter financial records.", "capabilityIds": [ "connected-apps-files", "approval-enterprise-controls" ] } ], "prompts": [ { "id": "reconciliation-packet", "title": "Prepare a reconciliation review packet", "prompt": "Compare these read-only records for the named period. Show calculations, cite source rows, separate timing differences from errors, and return an exception log for human review without changing any record.", "expectedArtifact": "Reconciliation review packet", "humanReviewPoint": "Verify source completeness, calculations, classifications, and proposed corrections." }, { "id": "batch-classification-draft", "title": "Classify a batch into a draft journal with an exception queue", "prompt": "Here is a transaction export and our chart of accounts. Classify each line against our accounts and produce a draft journal DOCUMENT, outside our accounting system, plus an exception queue with your confidence per line. Totals must reconcile to source before I start reviewing. Nothing you produce enters the accounting system; I import and post myself.", "expectedArtifact": "Draft journal plus exception queue, totals tied to source", "humanReviewPoint": "Review every exception, sample the auto-classified lines, then post yourself." }, { "id": "close-checklist-controls", "title": "Turn my month-end close into a controlled checklist", "prompt": "Here is my month-end close as I actually run it. Turn it into a step list where every step you would perform has a verification step after it, and every step that touches a payment has an explicit human gate. Flag any segregation-of-duties conflicts you see in my current process.", "expectedArtifact": "Close checklist with controls and gates", "humanReviewPoint": "You own the control design; the checklist is a proposal until you sign it." }, { "id": "exception-triage", "title": "Triage reconciliation exceptions without auto-clearing", "prompt": "I will paste unmatched transactions. Classify each, propose matches with a confidence level, and queue everything below the threshold for my review. Never auto-clear anything.", "expectedArtifact": "Triaged exception list with proposed matches", "humanReviewPoint": "Every clear is your decision; the agent proposes only." }, { "id": "calculations-with-receipts", "title": "Run financial calculations with the formula shown", "prompt": "Compute these interest, balance, and discount figures. Show the formula and inputs inline for every number, and declare your rounding and rate assumptions up front. If anything involves tax, name the table and year you are using and stop for my confirmation of jurisdiction before treating it as final.", "expectedArtifact": "Calculation sheet with per-figure receipts", "humanReviewPoint": "Spot-check against materiality; confirm tax jurisdiction and year yourself." }, { "id": "honest-outlook", "title": "Give me the honest read on this occupation", "prompt": "Give me the real outlook for this role: what the exposure percentiles measure, what the employment projection actually says, what the measured automation share does and does not mean, and which of my tasks the evidence suggests are the durable ones. No countdown, no sugarcoating either direction.", "expectedArtifact": "Honest occupational outlook summary", "humanReviewPoint": "Career decisions stay yours; this is orientation, not advice." } ], "humanOwnedResponsibilities": [ "Posting to the real ledger: agents write to draft journals only, and your click posts", "Payments, filings, and corrections: money movement and statutory submissions are authorized by you, every time", "Tax finality: current tables and jurisdiction are yours to confirm; the agent must name its table version and stop", "Policy and compliance interpretation, including segregation-of-duties design", "Final reconciliation sign-off: sampled review of auto-classified work is part of the job, not optional" ], "risks": [ { "id": "financial-record-error", "level": "high", "description": "A plausible draft can contain incorrect calculations, classifications, or source matches.", "mitigation": "Use read-only inputs and require independent recalculation and approval." } ], "sources": [ { "id": "occupation-bookkeeping-accounting-and-auditing-clerks", "title": "Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks occupational render model", "url": "https://singulariki.com/roles/bookkeeping-accounting-and-auditing-clerks", "publisher": "gold.onet_role_starter_surface", "lastReviewedAt": "2026-06-03" }, { "id": "openai-chatgpt-work", "title": "ChatGPT Work and Codex", "url": "https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001275-chatgpt-work-and-codex", "publisher": "OpenAI", "lastReviewedAt": "2026-07-11" }, { "id": "openai-work-deliverables", "title": "Creating and editing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with ChatGPT Work", "url": "https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001278-creating-and-editing-documents-spreadsheets-and-presentations-with-chatgpt-work", "publisher": "OpenAI", "lastReviewedAt": "2026-07-11" }, { "id": "openai-work-cloud-browser", "title": "Using cloud browser in ChatGPT", "url": "https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001280-using-cloud-browser-in-chatgpt", "publisher": "OpenAI", "lastReviewedAt": "2026-07-11" }, { "id": "openai-work-desktop-browser", "title": "Using the built-in browser in the ChatGPT desktop app", "url": "https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001277-using-the-built-in-browser-in-the-chatgpt-desktop-app", "publisher": "OpenAI", "lastReviewedAt": "2026-07-11" }, { "id": "openai-chatgpt-skills", "title": "Skills in ChatGPT", "url": "https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001066", "publisher": "OpenAI", "lastReviewedAt": "2026-07-11" }, { "id": "openai-chatgpt-scheduled-tasks", "title": "Scheduled Tasks in ChatGPT", "url": "https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10291617-tasks-in-chatgpt", "publisher": "OpenAI", "lastReviewedAt": "2026-07-11" }, { "id": "openai-workspace-agents", "title": "ChatGPT Workspace Agents for Enterprise and Business", "url": "https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001143", "publisher": "OpenAI", "lastReviewedAt": "2026-07-11" } ], "freshness": { "platformVersion": "2026-07-09-launch", "platformReviewedAt": "2026-07-11", "occupationalDataVersion": "O*NET 30.3", "occupationalDataGeneratedAt": "2026-06-03T05:05:52.989984+00:00" }, "quality": { "uniqueOccupationalOrTaskEvidence": false, "validPlatformSpecificWorkflow": true, "clearOutputArtifact": true, "realCapabilityMatch": true, "meaningfulHumanReviewSection": true, "sourcesAndFreshness": false, "distinctInternalRelationships": true, "noUnresolvedFactualOrProductVersionFailure": false, "indexable": false } }