Who handles value analysis at work?

2 different careers — and it means something different in each. Value analysis for a Welder is not value analysis for a Welder Fabricator. Below, the real task it carries in every job, with a ready AI prompt for each.

2careers do this work
2prompts that speak it
2attested by the job's own software

The value analysis, job by job

Same artifact, different stakes — each card is one career's real use of it, with its prompt.

Welder — Value analysis

Complete the value analysis for the new welding rod vendor by listing unit costs, failure rates from the last six months, expected lifespan, and recommendation so procurement can compare bids on Friday.

Welder Fabricator — Value analysis

Update the value analysis for the welded pressure manifold built for Parker Compressors, recording material substitutes tested, labor hours, scrap rates and final unit cost before I sign off tomorrow morning.
Every job keeps its own logs, files, records and schedules — and the same one can live in hundreds of jobs, meaning something different in each. The LLOS Work Atlas maps them from the evidence — the software each career is attested to use — never from imagination.

The rest of the map

Same library, five ways in.

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