Careermash
EDITION ONE · MEASURED AUGUST 2026

State of the professions

1,840 UK careers, measured against what AI is already used for. This page is computed live from the same engine as every card, and from edition two it will track what moved. Nothing here is a prediction.

The distribution

Median exposure across all scored careers is 19; the mean is 23. The spread is the story: most work still measures low, and a hard tail measures very high.

0-241,061 careersAI is a marginal presence in the measured tasks
25-49627 careersAI is established in a meaningful share of the work
50-74152 careersAI is doing much of the measurable work already
75-1000 careersThe measured tasks are largely open to AI today

The moats

Of the 1,512 careers with a classified moat:

431Physical (hands-on work)
407Regulatory (protected by law)
259Relational (people want a real person)
415None (no special protection)

328 careers hold a real exposure score but no moat classification yet; their cards say so honestly rather than guessing. The register grows only through reviewed evidence, and every change lands in the public ledger.

Ties are shown as ties: within a shared score the order is alphabetical because the measurement supports no finer ranking. Full data: open data · careers.json.