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AI Time Estimates for Writing Tasks

Writing tasks are where AI shines hardest. Compare drafting times for blog posts, emails, and reports across solo writers, agencies, and AI.

writing good

Translate a technical software product manual (~15,000–25,000 words) from English to Spanish, preserving terminology consistency for software engineering concepts and adhering to localization conventions for a target Spanish-speaking market.

710 hrs/wk @ 10× 30 views
writing good

Translate a single luxury skincare product description from English into French, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese while preserving the brand's premium tone and voice. Assumed source length: ~200–400 words.

27 hrs/wk @ 10× 28 views
writing good

Writing a full technical specification document for a REST API covering real-time inventory management for an e-commerce platform — including endpoint design, data models, authentication, error handling, pagination, and real-time update mechanisms (webhooks, SSE, etc.).

46 hrs/wk @ 10× 27 views
writing excellent

Creating a 10-slide outline for a seed-stage marketplace startup pitch deck — covering slide titles, key content points per slide, and narrative flow — without producing full slide content or visuals.

5 hrs/wk @ 10× 27 views
writing excellent

Write UX copy for a 3-screen mobile onboarding flow for a personal finance app, including headlines, subheads, body copy, CTAs, and microcopy across all three screens with appropriate tone for a financial product.

13 hrs/wk @ 10× 25 views
writing good

Produce a comprehensive study guide covering the CPA AUD exam blueprint—auditing standards (GAAS/PCAOB), risk assessment, fraud, attestation, professional responsibilities, ethics—plus a bank of multiple-choice and task-based simulation practice questions with answer explanations.

50 hrs/wk @ 10× 24 views
writing good

Proofread and line-edit a 10-page technical white paper (~3,000 words) on cloud infrastructure, covering grammar, punctuation, clarity, sentence flow, and consistency — stopping short of structural or content rewriting.

14.2 hrs/wk @ 10× 24 views
writing good

Translate technical API documentation from English to Spanish while preserving terminology accuracy, code samples, and parameter names throughout.

20 hrs/wk @ 10× 23 views
writing excellent

Draft a press release announcing a Series A funding round for a B2B SaaS company, covering headline, funding amount, investors, company description, executive quotes, and boilerplate.

11.25 hrs/wk @ 10× 23 views
writing good

Write a technical blog post explaining Redis caching implementation in a Node.js/Express app, complete with working code examples and performance benchmark results. Requires domain expertise in both the technology stack and technical writing, plus hands-on benchmark execution.

30 hrs/wk @ 10× 21 views
writing excellent

Translate technical API documentation from Spanish to English, preserving all code blocks, parameter names, endpoint paths, and technical descriptions with accuracy suitable for developer consumption.

12.5 hrs/wk @ 10× 20 views
writing good

Translate a 2,000-word technical whitepaper from German to English while preserving industry-specific terminology and register.

29 hrs/wk @ 10× 19 views
writing good

Translate technical API documentation from Japanese to English, preserving accuracy of software and API-specific terminology throughout a moderately-sized document (~5,000–10,000 words).

30 hrs/wk @ 10× 18 views
writing excellent

Create a detailed AP Biology study guide covering cellular respiration, photosynthesis, and ATP production, including practice questions aligned with AP exam expectations.

20 hrs/wk @ 10× 17 views
writing excellent

Write a complete job description for a Senior UX Designer role at a Series B startup, covering responsibilities, required and preferred skills, seniority signals, culture language, and any standard EEO or legal boilerplate.

4.2 hrs/wk @ 10× 17 views
writing excellent

Write a 500-word blog post explaining how AI is changing project management workflows for small teams. A focused, single-topic piece requiring research into current AI PM tools, clear narrative structure, and accessible language for a non-technical small-team audience.

7.5 hrs/wk @ 10× 15 views
writing partial

Write a Product Requirements Document (PRD) for a software interface between BRZ 365 Construction and BRZ 8 Finance, enabling construction project managers to select customer-specific account types, revenue accounts, and tax keys when creating outgoing invoices so that financial postings are generated correctly downstream.

42.5 hrs/wk @ 10× 13 views
writing good

Read and comprehend a 50-page regulatory compliance document, extract obligations, risks, and deadlines, and produce a clean 2-page executive summary with prioritized action items suitable for decision-makers.

15 hrs/wk @ 10× 13 views
writing excellent

Read and distill a 15-page machine learning optimization academic paper into a tight 3-paragraph executive summary suitable for a non-specialist decision-maker. Requires comprehension of technical content, judgment about what matters most, and clear translation into plain language.

6.5 hrs/wk @ 10× 13 views
writing good

Estimates assume a mid-sized product manual of approximately 10,000 words containing domain-specific technical terminology, safety instructions, and specification data. Quality output requires a bilingual Mandarin/English specialist with relevant technical domain knowledge. AI tools dramatically reduce core translation effort but require expert post-editing, especially for safety-critical language, regulatory phrasing, and product-specific terms.

250 hrs/wk @ 10× 13 views