Create or review technical design documentation to ensure the accurate development of reporting solutions.

“Create or review technical design documentation to ensure the accurate development of reporting solutions.” is a core task performed by Business Intelligence Analysts. Among the occupation's 17 rated tasks, workers place it 2nd by importance (#16 most important). About 100% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Document technical designs, procedures, or activities. in Documenting/Recording Information

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E1. Direct exposure — a language model could plausibly cut the time to do this task by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 1.00. Automation potential label: T3.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Generate standard or custom reports summarizing business, financial, or economic data for review by executives, managers, clients, and other stakeholders. · importance 4.6
• Maintain or update business intelligence tools, databases, dashboards, systems, or methods. · importance 4.4
• Manage timely flow of business intelligence information to users. · importance 4.2
• Provide technical support for existing reports, dashboards, or other tools. · importance 4.0
• Identify and analyze industry or geographic trends with business strategy implications. · importance 3.9
• Document specifications for business intelligence or information technology reports, dashboards, or other outputs. · importance 3.7
• Create business intelligence tools or systems, including design of related databases, spreadsheets, or outputs. · importance 3.7
• Collect business intelligence data from available industry reports, public information, field reports, or purchased sources. · importance 3.7
• Disseminate information regarding tools, reports, or metadata enhancements. · importance 3.6
• Conduct or coordinate tests to ensure that intelligence is consistent with defined needs. · importance 3.6
• Synthesize current business intelligence or trend data to support recommendations for action. · importance 3.6
• Analyze competitive market strategies through analysis of related product, market, or share trends. · importance 3.6
• Identify or monitor current and potential customers, using business intelligence tools. · importance 3.5
• Communicate with customers, competitors, suppliers, professional organizations, or others to stay abreast of industry or business trends. · importance 3.4

See all tasks on the Business Intelligence Analysts page.

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
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

@misc{singulariki-task-16137,
  title  = {Create or review technical design documentation to ensure the accurate development of reporting solutions.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-16137}
}