How boilermakers are reshaped as AGI capability advances.

Only about 10% of Boilermakers is information work today — the rest is physical, and moves slowly. The exposure is concentrated in the back office: the books, the paperwork, the scheduling, the marketing.
Why: The role's top work activities are deeply physical, led by 'Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment' (4.13), 'Performing General Physical Activities' (3.71), and 'Handling and Moving Objects' (3.40). This is reinforced by a work context requiring the use of protective safety equipment (4.62) and exposure to extreme temperatures (4.21), supported primarily by physical tools in UNSPSC segment 27.
grounded in the economy graph · digital scalar 0.10 · physical
Read as an executable program — the work decomposed into Code, Generative, Agentic, and Human.
The work of Boilermakers engages 41 activities — the executable steps that, decomposed, reveal what becomes Code, what stays Human.
+29 more via engagesIn
Boilermakers involves 41 work activities — the generalized motions beneath the role, each scored against the AI-deliverability frontier.
+29 more via involvesActivity
Which of this work becomes digital labor — performed under typed authority, promoted to autonomy on track record.
Boilermakers performs 18 tasks on the graph — the atomic work units that become the job description for a digital employee, promoted to autonomy on track record.
+6 more via performs
Boilermakers is typically employed by 56 company types — the demand side that decides which of this role's tasks get handed to agents, and on what authority.
+44 more via typicallyEmploys
Boilermakers is employed across 50 settings — the places where this role's work is done, and where digital employees first sit beside the humans.
+38 more via employs
The software here going agent-consumable — where the API, not the UI, becomes the way the work gets done.
Boilermakers uses 191 tools today. As each gains an agent-consumable surface (API / MCP / SDK), the human UI stops being the only way in — and the work routes straight to an agent.
+179 more via usesTool
Boilermakers relies on 13 products. The headless dimension of each — whether an agent can call it without a screen — is what decides how much of this work goes hands-free.
+1 more via uses
The software Boilermakers reaches for already exposes 12 agent-callable actions (via uses → exposedBy) — typed surfaces an agent invokes directly, no human screen in the loop. The work routes to the API, not the UI.
Node-intrinsic problems read straight off the graph (exposesProblem) — the evergreen wedges a builder could take into this space.
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