How upholsterers are reshaped as AGI capability advances.

Only about 15% of Upholsterers 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 occupation's work is inherently hands-on, supported by highly physical work contexts including 'Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects' (4.89) and 'Spend Time Standing' (4.63). Top work activities like 'Handling and Moving Objects' (3.99) and 'Performing General Physical Activities' (3.70) align with this physical nature. While there is a secondary presence of IT tools (9 tools in segment 43, such as AutoCAD and QuickBooks), the majority of tools are physical machinery (18 in segment 27), placing the value-creation firmly in the physical band.
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Read as an executable program — the work decomposed into Code, Generative, Agentic, and Human.
The work of Upholsterers engages 41 activities — the executable steps that, decomposed, reveal what becomes Code, what stays Human.
+29 more via engagesIn
Upholsterers involves 41 work activities — the generalized motions beneath the role, each scored against the AI-deliverability frontier.
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Which of this work becomes digital labor — performed under typed authority, promoted to autonomy on track record.
Upholsterers performs 22 tasks on the graph — the atomic work units that become the job description for a digital employee, promoted to autonomy on track record.
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Upholsterers is typically employed by 28 company types — the demand side that decides which of this role's tasks get handed to agents, and on what authority.
+16 more via typicallyEmploys
Upholsterers is employed across 52 settings — the places where this role's work is done, and where digital employees first sit beside the humans.
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The software here going agent-consumable — where the API, not the UI, becomes the way the work gets done.
Upholsterers uses 54 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.
+42 more via usesTool
Upholsterers relies on 18 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.
+6 more via uses
The software Upholsterers 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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