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Purpose

The Automation Vulnerability Index (AVI) is a strategic planning framework for evaluating how automation, robotics, machine learning, and autonomous workflows may affect a business’s labor model, physical assets, capital allocation, and geographic expansion decisions.

It is designed for:

• Founders
• Operators
• Investors
• Strategy teams
• Real estate and infrastructure planners
• Workforce planning leads

The AVI helps decision-makers answer three core questions:

1. Which roles, tasks, and regional labor pools are most exposed to automation?
2. Which assets may lose value if they cannot support automated operations?
3. Where and when should a business expand based on infrastructure readiness?

1. Assess Regional Labor & Skill Vulnerability

Automation risk should not be evaluated only at the job-title level. Most roles contain a mix of tasks: some highly automatable, others still dependent on human judgment, field expertise, relationship management, or complex problem-solving.

The first phase of the AVI breaks work into functional tasks and scores how vulnerable each task is to replacement, augmentation, or redesign.