Natera, Inc. (NTRA)
Genetic testing laboratories, one pattern. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 27, 2026. Ranked 19 of the 104 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
27%
End of 2028
39%
Employees, annual report
6,140
Leading staffing pattern
Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now27%
- End of 202735%
- End of 202839%
- End of 203041%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 60%
- Becomes checking a model's work 31%
- Handed over with lighter checks 6%
Natera’s 6,140 employees run genetic testing laboratories and the sales, billing and research work around them, read as one medical laboratory pattern.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 27% now, 35% at the end of 2027, 39% at the end of 2028, 41% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 41% desk work, 19% people work and 40% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 60% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 31% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
6,140 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; 98% of revenue is in the United States.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, our global workforce comprised 6,140 employees, of whom 6,135 were full time employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories | 100% | By description (c): genetic testing run in its own laboratories, with the sales, billing and research staff around them, medical and diagnostic laboratories; no count by function. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 6,140 employees, 6,135 full-time; consultants and temporary employees engaged beside them, not counted; about 64% women; 39% of the U.S. workforce minorities by self-identification; the series rises from 1,815 in 2020.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Labcorp Holdings Inc. (LH, 71,000 employees)25% now, 42% by 2028
- Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (DGX, 57,000 employees)27% now, 39% by 2028
- RadNet, Inc. (RDNT, 11,264 employees)27% now, 39% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
9 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI nine times: an AI algorithm in its Panorama test, and AI being incorporated across its business with the risks that brings.
- “Furthermore, with recent technological advances validated in the SMART study, Panorama leverages artificial intelligence to enable highly accurate results on samples for which a result would otherwise be difficult to determine.”
- “In the SMART study, Panorama demonstrated sensitivity for 22q11.2 deletion syndrome of 83%, clinical PPV of approximately 53%, and a false positive rate of 0.05% using our updated artificial intelligence algorithm.”
- “We are incorporating artificial intelligence across various areas of our business, which presents risks that could adversely affect our business and results of operations.”
- “We are incorporating artificial intelligence, or AI, and machine learning, or ML, technologies into aspects of our business.”
- “AI and ML systems are complex and may generate inaccurate or unintended outputs due to design limitations, algorithmic flaws, or deficiencies in training data.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20212median 0
- Fiscal 20222median 0
- Fiscal 20232median 1
- Fiscal 20242median 4
- Fiscal 20259median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 6,135 | 2026-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 4,424 | 2025-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 3,282 | 2024-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 2,958 | 2023-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 2,670 | 2022-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 1,815 | 2021-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 1,039 | 2020-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 975 | 2019-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 893 | 2018-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 852 | 2017-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 716 | 2016-03-24 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- Consultants and temporary employees are outside the count (rule 8).
- No count by function or country; one laboratory pattern by description.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001104659-26-020881, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
The report on Natera, Inc., $29
This page as a document to keep, with what it does not show: the share within reach at every date on three paces and two reliabilities, a typical workforce of this shape at the stated headcount role by role and task by task (the industries' staffing, never the company's roster), where to start, what changes for the people and what they would learn, every sentence in the filing that names AI, the headcount by year, the companies read with the same leading pattern, the method and a citation line. To print or save as a PDF, open again in your browser for a year.
See the report, $29See the sample first: Walmart's report is free
Questions about this company
- How much of Natera, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 27% now and 39% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Natera, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Natera, Inc. employ?
- 6,140 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Natera, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories; by those patterns the work is about 41% desk work, 19% people work and 40% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Natera, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 9 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 2, 2, 2, 2 and 9 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
Embed these figures on your site
A small card with the share of working time within reach now and at the end of 2027, 2028 and 2030, the date and a link back. Free under CC BY 4.0; the card carries the credit.