The Task Exposure Indexv2026.Q3
Occupation · SOC 13-2041.00 · Job Zone 4

AI exposure: Credit Analysts

Analyze credit data and financial statements of individuals or firms to determine the degree of risk involved in extending credit or lending money. Prepare reports with credit information for use in decisionmaking.

Reading this score

computed

Credit Analysts sits in the top 3% of every occupation measured. 63.0% of what this job consists of, weighted by how important each task is to the role, is work current AI systems can produce with little standing in the way. Very few occupations score this high. The ones that do tend to share a trait: the output is a document, a calculation or a message, and nobody has to be in a particular room for it to count.

What holds the line here is context. Across this occupation's 11 tasks it averages 1.82 out of 3, the highest of the five friction dimensions. In plain terms, the work depends on knowledge the model cannot hold. Much of this job runs on things that were never written down: what this particular organisation does, what happened last week, what the person across the table actually meant. That context is the barrier, and it erodes as systems are given more access.

The most exposed thing this job does is Generate financial ratios, at 86.7%. The least is Confer with credit association and other business representatives to exchange credit information, at 35.0%. A gap of 51.7% between two parts of the same job is the reason this index publishes at task level. An occupation-wide number would have hidden both.

Within business and financial operations occupations, this one is more exposed than most. The median across the 48 roles in the group is 47.1%, and only 4 of them score higher than this. Occupational families are not uniform, and the spread inside them is often wider than the gap between them.

What would move this score. Of 11 tasks, 9 are currently banded exposed, 2 assisted and 0 untouched. For that distribution to shift materially would take cheaper ways to verify output, since the cost of checking is currently doing more to hold this work in place than the cost of producing it. The score is re-computed every quarter against a fresh capability reference, and the change is published rather than quietly applied.

Task by task

11 tasks, O*NET 31.0
TaskExposedAssistedUntouchedImportanceBand
Generate financial ratios, using computer programs, to evaluate customers' financial status.86.7%13.3%0.0%4.55exposed
Compare liquidity, profitability, and credit histories of establishments being evaluated with those of similar establishments in the same industries and geographic locations.86.7%13.3%0.0%4.25exposed
Analyze financial data, such as income growth, quality of management, and market share to determine expected profitability of loans.73.3%26.7%0.0%4.53exposed
Consult with customers to resolve complaints and verify financial and credit transactions.73.3%26.7%0.0%3.07exposed
Prepare reports that include the degree of risk involved in extending credit or lending money.60.0%40.0%0.0%4.55exposed
Analyze credit data and financial statements to determine the degree of risk involved in extending credit or lending money.58.3%29.2%12.5%4.90exposed
Contact customers to collect payments on delinquent accounts.50.0%25.0%25.0%4.00exposed
Complete loan applications, including credit analyses and summaries of loan requests, and submit to loan committees for approval.45.0%30.0%25.0%4.76exposed
Review individual or commercial customer files to identify and select delinquent accounts for collection.45.0%30.0%25.0%3.31exposed
Evaluate customer records and recommend payment plans, based on earnings, savings data, payment history, and purchase activity.37.9%49.6%12.5%3.69assisted
Confer with credit association and other business representatives to exchange credit information.35.0%40.0%25.0%3.08assisted

Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean.

Where the score comes from

judged

Every task is scored through the standardised work activities it maps to. These are this occupation’s averages on the six rubric dimensions. Capability is what AI can do; the other five are what stands in the way.

DimensionMeanScale
Capability3.550-4
Embodiment0.090-3
Presence0.360-3
Accountability1.320-3
Context1.820-3
Verification cost1.550-3

What this means in practice

Where most of a role's weighted task load is exposed, the work that survives is usually the part of the job nobody wrote into the job description: deciding what should be produced rather than producing it, and being answerable for the result. The tasks lowest on this page are a better guide to where to spend your time than any general advice about the future of work.

Occupations either side of this one

The four closest scores in the same occupational family, then the four closest anywhere in the index.

Read this carefully. Exposure is not displacement. A high score means current AI systems can produce this work, not that anyone will stop paying a person to do it. Adoption depends on economics, regulation and inertia that this index deliberately does not model. How the score is built.