Consumer products is the third-broadest sector by employer count, behind technology and financial services.
Every anchor market clears the cell floor; the United Kingdom cell is the thinnest at 168.
Across 2,157 live consumer products specifications from 49 employers, as at 14 September 2026. Australia 587 · United States 1,354 · United Kingdom 168 · other markets 48.
Where a cell falls under 50 specifications the share is held and counts print beside shares. AI-central share moves with market mix; the market is named beside every share.
How many consumer products specifications mention AI
Of 2,157 live consumer products specifications from 49 employers as at 14 September 2026, 452 have AI core or supporting the work, 21.0%. The corpus average across 24,944 live specifications is 22.7%, the counterfactual for every sector figure on this page.
How consumer products compares across markets
Evidenced cells: Australia 587, United States 1,354, United Kingdom 168. The remaining 48 live specifications sit in the other eight markets and print once in the footer.
How AI reaches the entry level in consumer products
Entry and director-and-above cells print counts beside shares, and any cell under 50 is suppressed and stated. Both figures resolve from the sector block at build.
The pathway, across marketsHow many consumer products AI roles define who overrules the model
Of 452 AI-central consumer products specifications, 235 say nothing about who can overrule the model, 52.0%.
Verbatim · one live AI-central specification · scores zero on the four testsincorporating modern AI tools and automated frameworks into creative workflows
Consumer products · Australia · August 2026 · scores zero on the four tests · company not inside a notice window
Which skills consumer products asks for
Layer shares are the average across the sector's live specifications of the share of each role's work in that layer. The top five sub-categories and the governance-to-tool-use ratio resolve from the sector block at build.
The four layers, definedTop five sub-categories: internal orchestration, operational judgement, functional craft, domain knowledge, technical execution. Governance against tool use: 108 against 608.
How this is measured
Live basis. Employers are never named against a figure; the verbatim is attributed to sector, market and month. A page publishes at 150 live specifications; a cell from 50 prints inside its parent with counts beside shares; under 50 it is suppressed and stated.
Full method at /method