The question isn’t whether AI will transform your workforce – it’s how, when, and which roles will be affected first.
While competitors race to implement AI solutions, forward-thinking business leaders are asking a more strategic question: How do we prepare our people for this transformation?
The answer lies in understanding work at its most fundamental level, and a groundbreaking partnership between Vibrant AI and Curated Analytics is giving business leaders the tools to do exactly that.
The Foundation: Understanding How Work Really Happens
Before you can transform your workforce, you need to understand it with precision. This is where occupational classification systems like O*NET become invaluable. Rather than viewing jobs as monolithic titles, this framework breaks down every occupation into its component parts:
The hierarchy flows like this:
- At the broadest level, Intermediate Work Activities (IWAs) describe general work behaviors that span multiple roles – activities like “Analyzing Data” or “Making Decisions.”
- These break down into Detailed Work Activities (DWAs), which provide specificity about what workers actually do, such as “Analyze financial data” or “Analyze technical specifications.”
- DWAs are composed of Tasks – the concrete, occupation-specific actions your employees perform daily.
- These tasks require specific Skills – the developed capabilities that enable performance, from critical thinking to technical programming.
This isn’t academic classification for its own sake. This granular view reveals exactly which aspects of work AI can augment, which skills need development, and where human judgment remains irreplaceable.
The Challenge: Connecting Framework to Reality
Here’s where most organizations hit a wall. You might understand the theoretical framework, but how do you apply it to your actual workforce? How do you connect standardized occupational data with your HR systems, departmental structures, and specific business processes?
More importantly, how do you translate this into actionable insights that help department heads make real decisions about their teams?
The Solution: Augmentor by Vibrant AI and Curated Analytics
Recognizing this gap, Vibrant AI and Curated Analytics have partnered to create Augmentor – a workforce transformation platform that bridges theory and practice. Augmentor takes the occupational classification framework and combines it with your internal HR data to deliver something every business leader needs: clarity about AI’s impact on their specific workforce.
How Augmentor Works
Augmentor ingests your organization’s HR data – job titles, departmental structures, roles, and responsibilities – and maps it against the detailed occupational framework. Using sophisticated AI analysis, the platform evaluates every task and activity within your organization to determine:
- AI Exposure: Which tasks in each role are susceptible to AI automation or augmentation
- Impact Timing: Whether disruption is likely in the near-term or long-term
- Transformation Opportunities: Where AI can enhance rather than replace human work
- Skill Gaps: What capabilities your workforce needs to develop to work effectively alongside AI
The result? Powerful, intuitive dashboards that give department leaders unprecedented visibility into their workforce’s future.
Dashboards That Drive Decisions
Rather than overwhelming executives with data, Augmentor presents insights through role-specific dashboards that answer the questions business leaders actually ask:
For Department Heads:
- Which of my roles are most exposed to AI transformation?
- How many employees need reskilling in the next 12-24 months?
- What specific skills should we prioritize in training programs?
- Where can we redesign work to create more value?
For Workforce Planners:
- What hybrid roles should we create that combine human and AI capabilities?
- Which departments face the greatest transformation pressure?
- How do we sequence our workforce development initiatives?
For Executive Leadership:
- What’s our organization-wide AI readiness?
- Where are our biggest opportunities for productivity gains?
- What’s the ROI of proactive workforce transformation versus reactive management?
Beyond Automation: The Hybrid Work Opportunity
Here’s where Augmentor delivers its most significant value. Rather than simply identifying what AI might automate, the platform reveals opportunities to redesign work around human-AI collaboration.
These hybrid roles represent the future of work – positions where AI handles routine analysis, data processing, or initial assessments, while humans focus on judgment, creativity, relationship-building, and strategic decision-making.
The Business Case for Hybrid Roles
Organizations using Augmentor to implement hybrid work models are seeing measurable results:
- Reduced Cycle Times: By automating data gathering and preliminary analysis, employees complete projects 30-50% faster.
- Higher Productivity: Workers freed from routine tasks can handle larger portfolios or take on more complex, high-value work.
- Increased Revenue: Enhanced productivity and faster cycle times translate directly to improved throughput and customer delivery.
- Reduced Costs: More efficient processes mean lower operational costs per unit of output, even as you maintain or grow headcount through natural attrition.
- Improved Retention: Employees engaged in more meaningful, strategic work report higher job satisfaction and stay longer.
Strategic Reskilling: From Reactive to Proactive
Traditional workforce planning reacts to disruption. Augmentor enables proactive transformation through targeted reskilling insights.
The platform identifies specific skills gaps and prioritizes them based on:
- Business impact: Which skills matter most for competitive advantage?
- Transformation urgency: What needs to happen first?
- Development feasibility: How quickly can people acquire these capabilities?
This means you’re not running generic “AI literacy” programs that waste time and budget. You’re deploying precision reskilling initiatives that build exactly the capabilities your workforce needs, department by department, role by role.
AI Literacy That Matters
Augmentor goes beyond basic AI awareness training. The platform helps you develop role-specific AI literacy programs that teach employees:
- How AI will specifically impact their daily work
- Which tools and capabilities they’ll need to master
- How to collaborate effectively with AI systems
- Where human judgment adds the most value
This targeted approach dramatically improves training ROI and employee engagement.
Making Workforce Transformation Concrete
The partnership between Vibrant AI and Curated Analytics represents a fundamental shift in how we approach workforce transformation. Rather than treating AI disruption as an abstract threat or relying on generic industry reports, business leaders now have tools to:
- Quantify AI’s specific impact on their workforce
- Visualize transformation opportunities through intuitive dashboards
- Prioritize initiatives based on data rather than guesswork
- Execute targeted reskilling programs that deliver measurable results
- Track progress and ROI throughout the transformation journey
The Competitive Advantage of Clarity
In uncertain times, clarity is competitive advantage. While other organizations react to AI disruption with anxiety or ad-hoc initiatives, Augmentor users are building systematic, data-driven transformation strategies.
They know exactly which roles face transformation pressure. They’re reskilling proactively rather than reactively. They’re redesigning work to maximize human-AI collaboration. And they’re capturing the measurable business benefits – reduced costs, increased revenue, higher productivity – that come from getting workforce transformation right.
Getting Started
Workforce transformation doesn’t have to be a leap in the dark. With the right framework, the right data, and the right tools, you can approach AI’s impact on your organization with confidence and precision.
The occupational classification structure gives you the language to understand work at a granular level. Your internal HR data provides the specifics about your actual workforce. Augmentor brings these together, adding AI-powered analysis and actionable insights that turn data into strategy.
For business leaders ready to move beyond uncertainty and into action, the path forward is clear: understand your work, analyze the impact, reskill strategically, and redesign thoughtfully.
The future of work isn’t something that happens to your organization. With Augmentor, it’s something you design.
Ready to see how AI will transform your specific workforce?
Contact Vibrant AI and Curated Analytics to schedule an Apex Workforce demonstration for your leadership team.