Meet Anima.

The intelligence engine behind Human Layer Lab. Anima sees how AI is changing every task inside every role, then shows you what to do about it.

The Name

Why “Anima”?

Anima is Latin for the animating force: the thing that makes something alive rather than mechanical.

We didn't name it after what AI can do. We named it after what AI can't be.

Every role has an anima: the irreducibly human core. The judgment, the relationships, the creativity, the trust. The part that matters more as AI handles the rest.

Anima finds it. And then helps you build around it.

The Engine

Six layers of intelligence. One complete picture.

Anima doesn't give you a risk score and leave you to figure out the rest. It runs every role through a six-layer analysis framework that produces actionable, evidence-grounded output you can take to your board, your team leads, or your next planning cycle.

Sources

50K+

Tasks

2,400

Updates

Hourly

Models

6

Layer 01

Signal Intelligence

Before Anima touches a single role, it already knows what's happening in the market. An always-on intelligence layer continuously crawls AI tool launches, adoption evidence, displacement patterns, regulatory changes, and emerging roles across industries. Every analysis is grounded in what's actually happening, not what a model was trained on months ago.

Layer 02

Role Decomposition

Every role is broken into its atomic tasks. Time allocation, skills required per task, physicality classification, context dependencies. Whether you provide a detailed job description or just a title, Anima builds a comprehensive task map. This is the foundation everything else builds on.

Layer 03

Impact Scoring

Each task is independently scored for AI displacement potential on a 0–100 scale. Every score comes with a structured rationale explaining why, what evidence supports it, and what could change it. Signal citations link scores to real-world evidence. No black boxes.

Layer 04

Capacity Projection

Scores translate into hours freed per week per role. Anima projects task migrations across time horizons: what's automatable now, what's coming in six months, what remains distinctly human. Always weekly. Always grounded.

Layer 05

Synthesis & Design

This is where analysis becomes action. Anima produces Growth Reports (for managers and employees) and Executive Reports (for leadership). It identifies skill gaps, maps development pathways, surfaces where roles are overlapping or merging, and flags where entirely new roles are emerging from freed capacity. Living Job Descriptions are generated and evolve with every re-analysis.

Layer 06

Temporal Intelligence

Re-analyse roles over time and Anima compares the results. What changed? Did automation land as predicted? Which tasks shifted quadrant? Is your transformation plan tracking? Every re-analysis compounds the intelligence, giving you a longitudinal view rather than a point-in-time snapshot.

Why Anima

Built different from the ground up.

Not a chatbot with a database.

Anima is a multi-stage analysis pipeline, not a single prompt wrapped in a UI. Each layer has typed inputs, typed outputs, and observable reasoning. The analysis is deterministic and reproducible.

Model-agnostic by design.

Anima routes to the best model for each analytical task. It's not locked to a single AI provider. As models improve, Anima improves with them.

Evidence-grounded, not hallucinated.

Every score, every projection, every recommendation traces back to signal data, structured rationale, and cited evidence. You can see exactly why the engine reached its conclusions.

Versioned like software.

Anima versions are immutable snapshots. When we ship an improved analysis pipeline, your existing analyses stay exactly as they were. You can re-analyse on the new version and compare the results. No silent changes. No surprises.

Gets smarter with every analysis.

Every role analysed feeds a growing canonical task taxonomy and skills ontology. Cross-role patterns emerge. Industry benchmarks sharpen. The more organisations use HLL, the more precise every analysis becomes.

How Anima works

From raw signals to reasoned output.

Anima sits between your scattered systems and your decisions. It pulls every source into the Human Layer Graph, reasons over the whole picture, and writes the documents your stakeholders actually need.

HRIS & exports
Spreadsheets
Payroll
Jira
CRM
Process maps
Chat & email
Linear
Docs & wikis
Monday
System signals
AI Impact Report
Human Layer Graph
Capacity Ledger
Living JDs
AI Competency Report
Tool Adoption Plan
Agent Deployment Map
Risk Map & Board Brief
ROI Dashboard
01 · Ingest every system
HRIS & exportsSpreadsheetsPayrollJiraCRMProcess mapsChat & emailLinearDocs & wikisMondaySystem signals
02 · Reason over the graph
The engineAnima
Role decompositionAutomation scoringDependency mappingDeliverable generation
03 · Write the documents
AI Impact Report
Human Layer Graph
Capacity Ledger
Living JDs
AI Competency Report
Tool Adoption Plan
Agent Deployment Map
Risk Map & Board Brief
ROI Dashboard
Ask Anima

Answer the questions your dashboards can't.

Put a real question to your organisation. Anima reasons over your live graph and market signals, and answers with evidence, not vibes.

Prompt

Which roles in my Customer Experience org have the most task overlap? Show me hybrid role opportunities where AI compression could combine responsibilities.

Context
OrganisationCloudify SaaS
DepartmentCustomer Experience
Roles analysedCSM, Support, Onboarding
Data freshnessUpdated 4h ago
Runs on your Human Layer Graph
Your graphCSM, Support and Onboarding decomposed into 214 linked tasks, skills and tools
Live signalsTicketing, CRM and CS-stack telemetry showing where the three roles' work already overlaps
Deep researchHybrid-role patterns and AI compression evidence from across the market
Anima 2.0 · multi-model synthesis

Customer Experience: Hybrid Role Opportunities

Task overlap analysis across 3 roles with AI compression modelling
Key insight
Every role is a bundle of tasks. AI automates some, creates others. When tasks compress, roles can combine: across CSM, Support Specialist and Onboarding, 47% of tasks are duplicated or automatable.
Task overlap between roles
CSM ↔ Supportaccount health, escalation handling62%
CSM ↔ Onboardingproduct training, success planning54%
Support ↔ Onboardingtechnical guidance, documentation41%
Hybrid role recommendation: CX Partner
  • Combines account management, technical support and onboarding delivery
  • AI handles ticket routing, health scoring, playbook execution and routine check-ins
  • Capacity impact: 3 roles become 2 enhanced roles per pod
Role agents

An expert on what every role is becoming.

Anima powers a role-specific agent for every employee: a career coach grounded in their actual task map, not generic advice.

Prompt

I'm a Customer Success Manager and my company is pushing us to become 'Strategic Advisors'. What does that actually mean? What skills do I need, and how do I develop them while AI handles my old playbook work?

Context
Your roleCustomer Success Manager
Experience4 years in CS
Current focusHealth scores & renewals
Risk score72% (High)
Runs on your Human Layer Graph
Your graphYour role's task map: the 72% risk score is built from your actual tasks, not your title
Live signalsCopilot adoption in your CS stack, tracked as it takes over playbook work
Deep research1,847 CS transformation cases and live market signals on where the role is heading
Customer Success Agent

CSM to Strategic Advisor: Your Development Path

Based on 1,847 CS transformation cases and market signals
What's happening to your role
AI copilots now handle 40 to 50% of traditional CSM work: health scoring, playbook execution, routine check-ins, churn prediction. The CSMs being promoted in 2026 drive customer business outcomes, not product adoption.
Skills that now matter most
Business acumen & industry expertiseCritical
Executive presence & stakeholder influenceCritical
Consultative problem-solving frameworksHigh
AI copilot orchestrationnot just usageHigh
Your learning path
  • Month 1: master your AI copilot, automate all health scoring and playbook triggers
  • Months 2 to 3: shadow 3 executive QBRs; practice hypothesis-driven discovery
  • Month 4: lead one strategic business review, not a product review, solo
Artifacts

Boardroom-ready deliverables.

From analysis to stakeholder-ready deliverable in one click: risk reports, capacity analyses, living JDs and transformation roadmaps, all generated from your data.

Generation settings

Generate a living job description for a hybrid GTM Engineer role: combine Sales Development Rep with Software Engineer at 65% AI automation.

Context
OrganisationAcme SaaS
DepartmentRevenue Operations
Tasks analysed127 tasks
Data freshnessReal-time sync
Runs on your Human Layer Graph
Your graphSDR and Software Engineer task maps merged: 127 tasks scored for what AI absorbs
Live signalsReal-time sync with your RevOps stack keeps the JD current as tools change
Deep researchMarket comp bands and hybrid GTM role patterns, cited line by line
Anima · generated from your analysis

GTM Engineer

Revenue Operations · Full-time · Remote/Hybrid · Hybrid role
About this role
The GTM Engineer is the revenue team's secret weapon: a rare hybrid who thinks like a salesperson but builds like an engineer, architecting the systems that capture, enrich, score and route every lead through a unified revenue engine.
Key responsibilities
  • Design and maintain the complete lead lifecycle from first touch to closed-won
  • Build custom integrations connecting CRM, enrichment APIs and outbound platforms
  • Deploy AI-powered prospecting workflows: signal-based outbound, intent-triggered sequences
  • Create real-time dashboards tracking pipeline velocity, conversion and attribution
What stays current
Task mapre-analysed every cycleLive
Skills profiletracks market trajectoryLive
Compensation bandbenchmark-linkedQuarterly
Outputs

What you get.

Growth Reports

For managers and their teams. Skill development roadmaps, task migration timelines, and clear guidance on what's changing and what to do about it.

Executive Reports

For leadership and the board. Hours freed, capacity projections, workforce structure recommendations, and the evidence to back every claim.

Living Job Descriptions

AI-generated, always-current job descriptions that evolve as roles change. Your single source of truth for what each role actually looks like today, not when someone last updated a doc.

Skills Intelligence

Which skills are growing, which are declining, and where the gaps are across your workforce. Mapped to real market trajectory data, not static taxonomies.

Built on
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Version History
Latest

March 2026

Anima 2.0

Multi-stage pipeline. Task-level decomposition. Six-layer analysis. Signal-grounded scoring. Living Job Descriptions. Temporal drift detection.

Deprecated

November 2025

Anima 1.3

Single-pass analysis. Role-level scoring. Tri-temperature scenarios.

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