System Atlas

Market and positioning → lead generation → product or service design → production or delivery (+2)

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
11
Of their industry
16%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Lead generation
    in 91% of instances
    then
  3. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    work
  4. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 100% of instances
    then
  5. Process
    Logistics and fulfilment
    in 100% of instances
    then
  6. Decisions
    Regulatory compliance
    in 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
Invariant 6
At least 90% have it
Process4
Lead generation
91%
10
Product or service design
100%
11
Production or delivery
100%
11
Logistics and fulfilment
100%
11
Decisions2
Market and positioning
100%
11
Regulatory compliance
100%
11
Variant 28
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People3
Suppliers and partners
64%
7
Org structure
55%
6
Customer service and support
45%
5
Process8
Hiring
73%
8
Customer onboarding
64%
7
Onboarding and training
55%
6
Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
45%
5
Billing and invoicing
45%
5
Evaluation and red-teaming
36%
4
Quality control
27%
3
Learning and improvement
27%
3
Software3
Inference serving
64%
7
Integrations
45%
5
Subscription billing
27%
3
Data2
Training data acquisition and licensing
36%
4
Compute capacity
27%
3
Decisions12
Pricing
73%
8
Policies and culture
73%
8
Security and access
73%
8
Strategy and goals
73%
8
Model release and versioning
64%
7
Usage pricing and metering
64%
7
Data protection and security assurance
64%
7
Contracts
45%
5
Health, safety and environment
45%
5
Usage policies and model documentation
45%
5
Performance and pay
36%
4
Governance and decision rights
27%
3
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.

  • Suppliers and partners4 findings
    Dependency 4 · at 4 companies
  • Customer onboarding3 findings
    Dependency 3 · at 3 companies
  • Usage policies and model documentation3 findings
    Tacit rule 2 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Compute capacity2 findings
    Bottleneck 2 · at 2 companies
  • Production or delivery2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Health, safety and environment2 findings
    Manual hand-off 1 · Workaround 1 · at 2 companies
  • Logistics and fulfilment2 findings
    Manual hand-off 1 · Workaround 1 · at 2 companies
  • Usage pricing and metering2 findings
    Manual hand-off 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product9%
Size
  • 11-50 people9%
  • 201-500 people9%
  • 501-1000 people9%
Region
  • United States18%
  • Canada9%
  • China9%
  • Germany / United States9%
  • North America9%
  • Remote-first; offices in Austin, San Francisco and London9%
Instances
The 11 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.