Buyer School Research
Industry benchmarks built from public data, written for people evaluating a small business. The AI reports are free to read in full, with their methods and data. The resilience study is free too, and asks for an email address before the full version opens.
Scores, ranks and coverage figures in this research are Buyer School modeled estimates. They are comparisons to prompt questions, not forecasts or advice.
Report · Edition 2.0
Legal services rank first of 137 coverage-qualified U.S. industries for occupational AI exposure, at 87.0 exposure points. 74 further industries are unranked for low coverage. Exposure is not a forecast of job or revenue loss. (Buyer School modeled estimate.)
Report · Edition 1.0
Dental offices lead a broad office-opportunity index among 83 mostly in-person industries, at 17.2 opportunity points. A different construct and cohort from the exposure ranking; a heuristic, not measured savings. (Buyer School modeled estimate.)
Study · Version 2026.1
How jobs and locations in 152 industries held up through the 2008 to 2012 recession and the 2020 shock, from Census and BLS data. Whole industries, not profit, price or any one business.
Methods
Sources, matching, the 85% coverage rule, sensitivity checks, version history and limitations for both measures.
Dataset · Edition 2.0
All 137 ranked industries, the 74 unranked categories with reasons, field notes, and CSV and JSON downloads.
Buyer School Research is the research imprint of Business Buyer School, operated by Dig Inc LLC. Reports are produced from public government statistics and published academic measures, with AI assistance and programmatic calculation, and have not been independently peer reviewed. Government agencies supplied underlying data and did not review or endorse the findings.
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