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Categorization or classification software

Technology category · O*NET

Categorization or classification software is a technology category in the O*NET database. Across U.S. occupations, 16 report using software or tools in this category. The named products below are the specific examples O*NET records for those jobs. The occupations that use it sit, on average, at the 56th percentile of AI task-exposure ( moderate) — how much that work overlaps with what AI can do, not a sign the tool is being replaced. See where every tool category sits.

A Hot tag marks technologies O*NET sees frequently in employer job postings; In demand marks tools an occupation specifically requires.

Example software & tools

Ranked by how many occupations list each product. Each number is an occupation count — a job is counted once per product — so the product rows overlap and do not sum to the category total.

Software / tool Occupations Tags
Diagnostic and procedural coding software 5
American Medical Association CodeManager 3
GAEA Technologies WinSieve 3
3M Encoder 2
Computerized indexing systems 2
DRG grouping software 2
Drug coding software 2
Autocoders 1
Bowne JFS Litigator's Notebook 1
ColorSoft AutoMatch 1
Map Maker 1
PCI Geomatics eCognition 1
Yost Engineering ABN Assistant 1
Yost Engineering ClaimScrub 1
Yost Engineering CodeSearch Pro 1
Yost Engineering EpiCoder 1

Occupations that use Categorization or classification software

Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 16 occupations in occupations that use Categorization or classification software. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses Medical Assistants Radiologic Technologists and Technicians Registered Nurses Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians Paralegals and Legal Assistants Clinical Research Coordinators Surveying and Mapping Technicians Medical and Health Services Managers Soil and Plant Scientists Bill and Account Collectors Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Occupations that use Categorization or classification software, by AI task-overlap and median pay

How AI is used by roles that use Categorization or classification software

A software category is not itself "being automated" — but we can look at the roles that report using Categorization or classification software and ask how those people actually use AI. This rolls the Anthropic Economic Index per-role signal up across those roles, weighted by how much observed AI activity each one has. 68.8% of the 16 roles that use this category carry observed AI-usage data (11 roles).

Across those roles, 48.1% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 43.2% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 3.67 / 5.

Collaboration pattern Share What it means
directive 40.9% AI does it; you give the instruction
task iteration 26.5% you and AI go back and forth
learning 19.2% you ask AI to explain or teach
validation 2.4% you do it; AI checks your work
feedback loop 2.3% AI does it, then adjusts from your feedback

Roles behind this signal

The roles using this category that have the most AEI data. "Works with AI" is the role's share of conversations that augment rather than automate.

Occupation Works with AI Autonomy
Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists 47.2% 4.0/5
Clinical Research Coordinators 26.5% 3.5/5
Soil and Plant Scientists 85.1% 4.0/5
Paralegals and Legal Assistants 51.9% 3.0/5
Medical and Health Services Managers 49.5% 4.0/5
Hydrologists 41.6% 3.5/5
Medical Assistants 60.7% 3.0/5
Bill and Account Collectors 57.4% 3.0/5
Registered Nurses 66.7% 4.0/5
Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses 37.8% 3.0/5
Environmental Engineering Technicians 3.5/5

Source: Anthropic Economic Index (2026-01-15-v4-plus-2025-03-27-v2) over a sample of Claude.ai Free and Pro conversations — not all AI tools and not the whole workforce. Roles list software categories in O*NET; this does not mean AI is used inside Categorization or classification software, only that people in those roles use AI. Some conversations are left unclassified, so shares need not sum to 100.

Industries that concentrate this

Where Categorization or classification software matters most across the economy. Employment reach is the share of an industry's workers in occupations that significantly use Categorization or classification software (O*NET importance ≥ 3 of 5, or report using the tool category). Concentration compares that reach to the national average industry, so a value above 1× means the requirement is more pervasive here than across the economy as a whole.

Nationally, about 5.0% of workers are in occupations that significantly use Categorization or classification software (measured across 64 industries).

Sectors with the most such workers

Sector Workers Employment reach
Health Care and Social Assistance 4,972,550 21.5%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 763,290 7.1%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services 330,920 3.7%
Finance and Insurance 238,560 3.8%
Management of Companies and Enterprises 189,650 6.8%
Educational Services 170,770 1.3%
Information 120,850 4.2%
Wholesale Trade 92,570 1.5%
Manufacturing 78,910 0.6%
Retail Trade 59,530 0.4%
Other Services (except Public Administration) 39,730 0.9%
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing 27,860 1.2%

Industries where it is most concentrated

Industry Level Concentration Employment reach
Health Care and Social Assistance Sector 4.3× 21.5%
Offices of Chiropractors National industry 4.04× 20.2%
Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers National industry 2.82× 14.1%
Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers National industry 2.32× 11.6%
Residential Mental Health and Substance Abuse Facilities National industry 2.14× 10.7%
Offices of Optometrists National industry 1.8× 9.0%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Sector 1.42× 7.1%
Management of Companies and Enterprises Sector 1.36× 6.8%
Temporary Help Services National industry 1.26× 6.3%
Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists National industry 1.2× 6.0%
Residential Intellectual and Developmental Disability Facilities National industry 5.0%
Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians) National industry 0.88× 4.4%

Reach is a measure of how widespread a requirement is across an industry's workforce, not how intensively any individual uses it. Sector worker counts come from BLS OEWS employment; the significance threshold and tool use come from O*NET. Industries shown by concentration are filtered to a real worker base so a tiny specialty cannot top the list on rounding.

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.

Data compiled June 3, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Singulariki. "Categorization or classification software." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/tools/categorization-or-classification-software

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Singulariki. (2026). Categorization or classification software. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/tools/categorization-or-classification-software

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  title  = {Categorization or classification software},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tools/categorization-or-classification-software}
}

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