Market and positioning → lead generation → pricing → product or service design (+5)
Workflows that drive an outcome from step to step. Process steps that hand work to each other.
Within one industryHolds in Artificial intelligence. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.
- Organizations running it
- 10
- Of their industry
- 15%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
- DecisionsMarket and positioningin 100% of instancesthen
- ProcessLead generationin 100% of instancesthen
- DecisionsPricingin 100% of instancesthen
- ProcessProduct or service designin 90% of instanceswork
- ProcessProduction or deliveryin 100% of instancesthen
- ProcessHiringin 90% of instancesthen
- DecisionsData protection and security assurancein 90% of instancesinformation
- PeopleSalesin 100% of instanceswork
- PeopleAccount managementin 100% of instances
Coloured arrows: a flow of that type seen between the two at instance organizations. Grey arrows: order only.
Structure
Element
Share of instances
Companies
Customer onboarding
80%
8
Uptime and incidents
80%
8
Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
50%
5
Evaluation and red-teaming
40%
4
Onboarding and training
40%
4
Learning and improvement
40%
4
Logistics and fulfilment
30%
3
Quality control
20%
2
Inventory and assets
40%
4
Compute capacity
40%
4
Data management
20%
2
Legal and contracts administration
20%
2
Policies and culture
80%
8
Usage pricing and metering
80%
8
Security and access
80%
8
Strategy and goals
80%
8
Regulatory compliance
60%
6
Health, safety and environment
60%
6
Contracts
50%
5
Performance and pay
50%
5
Usage policies and model documentation
30%
3
Model release and versioning
20%
2
Governance and decision rights
20%
2
Variant · where they differ
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.
Couplings · what comes together
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.
Entropy
Where it runs rough
Operating-reality findings at instance companies: workarounds, manual hand-offs, bottlenecks.
- Sales6 findingsManual hand-off 3 · Dependency 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 6 companies
- Suppliers and partners4 findingsDependency 4 · at 4 companies
- Customer onboarding2 findingsDependency 2 · at 1 company
- Health, safety and environment2 findingsDependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
- Pricing2 findingsDependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 2 companies
- Customer service and support2 findingsDependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 2 companies
- Usage policies and model documentation2 findingsDependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 1 company
- Contracts1 findingDependency 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Industries
Business model
- subscription10%
Size
- 51-200 people30%
- 201-500 people10%
- 501-1000 people10%
Region
- North America20%
- San Francisco, United States20%
- Japan10%
- New York, NY10%
- Redwood City, California (HQ); offices in New York, Shanghai, London, Berlin and Singapore10%
- United Kingdom10%
Instances
The 10 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.