Administrative Operators
Keep processes, schedules, records, documents, and internal operations moving.
See the SWOT promptPractical thinking for AI-era work
If AI changes the demand for work like mine, what should I do next?
AI is changing tasks, roles, expectations, and business models. To respond well, you need a clearer picture of your own work—not just another prediction about jobs.
The problem
AI can change the demand for work, even when the job remains.
When a task becomes faster, cheaper, or self-service, an organisation may rethink the workflow around it: who does the work, how many people are needed, and what skills matter. A job title alone rarely tells the whole story.
The useful question is more specific: which parts of your work are changing, what value do you still bring, and what could you do next? ADAPTOR gives those questions an order.
The free framework
ADAPTOR
ADAPTOR is a complete, free method for turning uncertainty about AI and work into a plan you can revisit. Its seven Work Profiles help you see what your role is made of. From there, you build a Personal SWOT, choose goals, and take action.
One connected method
From the work you do to a grounded next move.
1ProfileIdentify the mix of work beneath your job title.
2Personal SWOTExamine that work using evidence about your position and what is changing.
3GoalsChoose outcomes that respond to the most important signals.
4ActionMake a move, learn from it, and review the plan.
Step 1 · Profile
Start with the kinds of work you actually do.
Each letter in ADAPTOR names a Work Profile. Most roles are a mix: choose a Primary Profile for the work people mainly rely on you to do, and a Secondary Profile for another important part. The profiles are lenses for your Personal SWOT—not personality types or a verdict on job risk.
AAdministrative Operators
DDigital Builders
AAnalysts
PProfessional Advisors
TTeam Coordinators
OOutput Creators
RRelationship Workers
Digital Builders
Create, configure, code, automate, design, maintain, or implement digital systems and outputs.
See the SWOT promptAnalysts
Research, interpret information, compare options, analyse data, and support decisions.
See the SWOT promptProfessional Advisors
Provide expertise, judgement, compliance support, consulting, coaching, or specialist services.
See the SWOT promptTeam Coordinators
Coordinate people, projects, delivery, stakeholders, decisions, and execution.
See the SWOT promptOutput Creators
Produce written, visual, strategic, educational, communication, or creative outputs.
See the SWOT promptRelationship Workers
Create value through direct human interaction with customers, clients, users, patients, or communities.
See the SWOT promptStep 1 → Step 2
Use your profile mix to make the SWOT personal.
For example, an administrative coordinator might combine Administrative Operator with Team Coordinator. That points them towards routine meeting summaries and sensitive follow-up. They can then ask what they have actually observed: is handling exceptions a Strength? Is self-service summarising a possible Threat? The profile identifies the work to examine; the SWOT assesses their own position.
Follow the complete four-step guidePut the method to work
Begin with one real activity.
Once you understand the sequence, start small. The ADAPTOR Starter Exercise helps you take one recurring activity through Profile, Personal SWOT, Goals, and Action. It gives you a first useful result you can extend across the rest of your role.
No account or email is needed. The framework and its full guide remain free to use.
Open the Starter Exercise
Go further with the book
Apply ADAPTOR with a guide beside you.
The framework is yours to use without buying anything. Be an AI-Era ADAPTOR makes it easier to put the method to work through deeper guidance, worked examples, a structured assessment, and a companion workbook for purchasers.
If your first exercise raises more questions about your role or next move, the book helps you work through them in more depth.
See what the book addsFurther reading
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Will AI Replace My Job? Questions Worth Asking First
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